The Buddhas of Bamiyan

The city of Bamiyan is a beautiful, mountainous place sited at the Western edge of the Hindu Kush and at 3,000m was a blessed relief from the stifling temperatures of Ghazni and Kandahar.

Helmand through to Kandahar & Ghazni

There are few places in our recent military history as evocative as Helmand province, the principal base for British troops fighting the Taliban insurgency from 2006 to 2014. The fighting here was intense at times, particularly in the late 2000s where it seemed the death of a soldier was an almost daily occurrence.

The Ancient City of Herat

We started our Herat tour at the massive Citadel that dominates the city and, unlike Kabul, we could enter this one. Huge towers rise above the fortified baked-brick walls with just a few fragments of the blue tile, which once covered the sides in Kufic script, remaining.