Hindu Kush

Hibernation The wintry lanschaft behind a village near Gulaki in Badakhshan province: In spring, the one... Category | Nature
Children of the Mountains In a village near Gulaki in Badakhshan province: The children live in a village high up... Category | people
Poor airy living High up in an inhospitable region of the Hindu Kush, a boy stands on the roof of his parents' house. The small mountain village in... Category | portrait

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City Whisper View from the cemetery over the Shar-e-Nau district in Kabul with the striking snow-capped Koh-e-Asamai mountain, the highest elevation in the... Category | city
Touching the clouds Deep clouds over the Hindu Kush: A foggy morning welcomes us in the village of Khana Ka in Badakhshan. | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Learning on the edge of the clouds In the deepest Badakhshan: On a cool and rainy day we visit the village of Khana Ka in the middle of the Hindu Kush. The children... Category | people, Nature
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Cocoa with Opium Together with a few friends from Kunduz who worked for a charity, we wanted to travel by land to Bamiyan.... Category | blog, Nature
Days on the mountain Two shepherds are on a steep climb to the Sheba Plateau in Badakhshan while collecting their sheep. The corresponding... Category | people, animals
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Icy Traffic Jam From an upcoming festival, an avalanche and little diziplin. A policeman looks helplessly at the 50-kilometre-long tin avalanche... Category | blog, people
Hindu Kush Finish While we were in a traffic jam on the way to Kunduz, the sun gradually set over the Salang Pass. The... Category | Nature

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Autumn Chill In the deepest Hindu Kush an ice-cold river splashes through the autumnal mountain landscape of Badakhshan near Jorm. | Afghanistan Category | Nature
End of summer in the Hindu Kush Evening in the province of Wardak: Sunbeams on the Hindu Kush mountains on an early autumn day | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Caribbean in the Hindu Kush One of the six lakes of Band-e-Amir. At an altitude of about 3000 meters lies the Lake District, west of the famous destroyed Buddha statues... Category | Nature
Road to Keshem The line between Keshem and Faizabad along on the Kokcha River is a sight for sore eyes, bizarre rock mountain and river formations make it... Category | Nature
Mountain air and dust On the road to Faizabad: short behind Keshem opens to the Valley and the bizarre mountain landscape of the Hindukushs in the Badakhshan province... Category | Nature
In stony nothingness Absolute silence. Hazy light. Taste of dust. After the rise of Valley standing on a rocky mound from the Charikar... Category | Nature
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Grapes in dry land Wine-growing in the Charikar level. The Charikar Valley at approximately 1600 meter height, 65 km north of Kabul, surrounded by... Category | blog, people
The rustling in the morning Shortly after dawn in a village near Doshi: A mulberry tree perched on the square in front of a small school in the morning light... Category | village
Picnic Light Front below, you can see our covered picnic area. Together with friends we spent a wonderful afternoon and evening over the vineyards... Category | Nature

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A little less Air In the evening, during a picnic we ran up a small hill, from here you had a sweeping view of... Category | Nature
The other way of living Shortly behind Doshi in Baghlan province, one of the typical clay villages lies at the foot of the Hindu Kush in a River Valley. |... Category | village
Entrance Drive through the small city Pul-i-Khumbri, a former industrial city, in the province of Baghlan. After the city begins the ascent to the... Category | city
Before the grape harvest Evening mood at Kalakan: the Valley, North of Kabul, before the four and swamplands of the Hindu Kush mainly thrives on the production of wine. Today... Category | Nature
Inside the Walls From the North to the South: short behind Kilagai starts entering the pass road up to the Salangtunnel, the highest... Category | Nature
Short Respite On the 3500 meter high Sheba plateau: A member of the Kuchis, Afghan nomads, is on the ascent to the Sheba Plateau. The... Category | people, portrait
Dusty Snow Behind the cold Khanabad River, which carries little water this time of year, rise the snowy mountains of the Hindu Kush. Directly... Category | water
Crystallised sugar in the Hindu Kush On the highest point of the Salang pass in about 3500 metres height you can on days like this over... Category | Nature
The passage before your eyes The South: In the province of Baghlan province on the road to Kabul passing through this Valley, at the end to the Salang... Category | Nature
The lying stones If you leave the District of char Dara, coming to the Green Valley of the River only the desert and the first Rocky... Category | Nature
The bubbling of the Hindu Kush In the province of Baghlan: On the road to the Salang pass to you curves this landscape, on the River, the ever... Category | Nature
Rice River Later autumn in Kunduz province: the river leads at this time little water, the surrounding fields with the adjacent villages... Category | Nature
Layers Afghan mountains: behind the fertile loess soils, the harsh Hindu Kush, rises here between Keshem and Faizabad. Afghanistan Category | Nature
A bagful of money? Afghanistan: After selling his wares on the bazaar of jorm, a small town in a valley of the Hindu Kush, is a... Category | people
Oxygen and Water On the Sheba plateau in the Hindu Kush: the day before it rained it anhaltent, the next morning, the Sun can be... Category | Nature
Mountainous World On the way through the Hindu Kush on the border between the province of Tahar and Badakhshan on the way to Faizabad | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Summiteer In the Province Bamiyan | Afghanistan Category | Nature

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Village Community Mulberry Tree Ancient mulberry trees in the village square of Khana Ka in the mountains of Badakhshan on a foggy day | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Nature Dam One of the band-e-Amir - barrages in the province of Bamiyan in the Hindu Kush. The Lake District is composed of six Lakes, natural travertine dams... Category | Nature
Wrap-around Village On the road to the Salang pass: along the route, there are numerous stone villages that cling to the steep hillsides and... Category | village
Winding of the stones Look in the foothills of the Hindu Kush: on a flight between Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif with the black listed Pamir Airways sees... Category | Nature
Water Crisis Floods in the Kokcha River in the province of Badakhshan | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Autumn Move On the main road, just behind the village of Jorm in the direction of Faizabad, a few men on their mules are on the way to the... Category | people
Broken Land On the edge of the line between Taloqan and Kunduz lies a village partly destroyed by the civil war | Afghanistan Category | village
The light goes out The last light of the day in the evening strips the mountains of the Hindu Kush around Faizabad in the province Badakhshan | Afghanistan Category | Nature
Hindu Kush Worlds The famous Buddha statues (destroyed by the Taliban) are located in the Valley of Bamiyan: not far from here. Bamiyan is located in the... Category | Nature
A summer evening In the Bamiyan Valley: summer evening in the 3000-meter Valley of the Hindu Kush. Not far from here, the famous are located (through...) Category | Nature
The Peaceful On the road in the province of Baghlan: sheep to the right and to the left, otherwise the province belongs to the no go areas... Category | Nature
Flight of the mountains Summer day in the mountains of the Hindu Kush in the Kokcha Valley | Afghanistan Category | Nature