We landed in Kabul in September 2019. I have never seen a city like that. Some markets and shops but the majority of the city is bunkered down, with several walls, barbed wire. Its an island of legitimacy where the city defends itself from someone that seems much more powerful. It felt to me like a sign of weakness – you are unwelcome either in your own country or by this country. We then flew over the beautiful Hindukush with mountains just full of snow. Afghanistan is raw in its beauty. Its so poor and when we visited a village, people were able to plant some trees and worked on an irrigation schemes to plant some fruits and nuts that they can sell. It was so dry and the countryside so empty.
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