Site of proposed airport - Sherpatoo

 Women gathering drinking water,washing etc - not rreal clean water

 Shah wanting to be a shooter

 They just showed up from village

 My little friends - they were petrified of me - oh well do you blame them?

 Explaining to villagers of airport plans

 Ride back to Bamyan - people live in these dwellings

 Same road back to Bamyan

 Bamyan - where the Buddhas once stood - blown up by Taliban - they were thousands yr old

 Another view - people also once lived in the caves you see

 Me

Was old historic market place the Taliban also destroyed.

More Pictures 3/22/11

Nawroj (New Year) Celebration 

MI8 Russian Helo we flew in - vibrates like crazy 

Leaving Kabul Airport 

Parts of Kabul - little dust there huh 

More outskirts Kabul 

On the way to Bamyan 

Lots of little 'clans' tribal villages enroute 

Mountains duh 

Bamyan airport - gravel runway by the way surrounded by those mountains 

Airport Office 

Leaving airport to head out to site