Tours in Afghanistan

**bogeyman** · 15th August 2021 17:19

Are you young, full of life, eager to travel? Dumb, stupid, short sight and really off your medication well if you are then tour Afghanistan with the Taliban in a VW Van, it's the Taliban in Afghanistan!

https://www.youngpioneertours.com/afghanistan-tours/

Afghanistan tours take in the following sites:

The OMAR Landmine Museum, Shah-e Doh Shamshira Mosque and Bala Hissar in Kabul
Tomb of Hazrat Ali in Mazar e Sharif
The ancient Silk Road city of Balkh – birthplace of Zoroaster who founded Zoroastrianism and Rumi, the legendary Persian poet
The Buddhist remains at Samangan
The incredibly beautiful Panjshir Valley
Bamian, the capital of Hazarajat, and its caves, ruins and villages of friendly Hazara locals, and the Band-e-Amir lakes (Bamian only on certain tours)

Come and see the site before the Taliban in a VW Van blows them up with a Talboom!!!

**Bill Ryan** · 15th August 2021 17:57

Well, long before the Taliban (or anyone else), this is one of the most hilarious — and most beautifully written — classic travel books I've ever read.

It's a wonderful, delicious feast from start to finish, and I lost count of the number of times I laughed out loud when reading it happily all on my own. And it also shows what Afghanistan used to be like in the 1950s — a charming, intriguing, idisyncratic and friendly place.

A city-dweller from London, who's never climbed a mountain in his life, sets out on a crazy whim for one of the great adventures of the 20th century.

This excellent review sets the scene:

One of the best books about mountaineering ever written, and certainly one of the funniest, was written by a complete novice, who had never climbed in his life when he decided to tackle a remote peak in Afghanistan that had never been climbed before.