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<\/a>Construction underway in Kabul<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>I think this is Shar-e Nau Park but there is nothing that lets me have a solid reference. Shar-e Nau Park was close to where I was staying and the most likely place to have taken this photo. Things change in thirty-seven years.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Sigi’s Restaurant – Crossroads of the West. This was where you put a note up on the message board if you were looking to share a ride to India or perhaps back through Iran to Turkey. Here you could meet your fellow hippy traveler, enjoy some pseudo- Western food, and hear European languages spoken. There is no evidence of it on Chicken Street any more and I never met anyone who could tell me where it used to be located.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This Ariana plane was grounded for the commemorative events marking the second anniversary of deposing the King.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>This is the plane that was to take me to Tashkent as soon as the fighter jets had finished their low passes over the city.<\/p><\/div>\n
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My departure from Kabul reminded me that I had been here two years previously. Two years before, in my transit of Pakistan, I heard the news that the King had been deposed by his cousin. This time my flight to … Continue reading