{"id":414,"date":"2012-09-12T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=414"},"modified":"2012-09-12T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:46:57","slug":"1975-afghanistan-0913-band-e-amir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bamiyan.us\/wordpress\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"1975 Afghanistan – 09\/13 – Band-e Amir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Band-e Amir became Afghanistan’s first national park in 2009. A trip to these six lakes makes for a pleasant day trip from Bamiyan. There’s very little that text can add to these images from the summer of 1975. If you visit the lakes today you can rent a paddle-swan to ride around at least one of them. These spring fed lakes are always uncomfortably cool as I found in a brief dip in the middle of July. They really are the color hinted at in these photographs.<\/p>\n

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Band-e Amir 01<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 02<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 03<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 04<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 05<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 06<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 07<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 08<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 09<\/p><\/div>\n

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Band-e Amir 10 – Caravan<\/p><\/div>\n

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