From Pakistan to Afghanistan

7 am: ‘ring ring’ said our alarm clocks and we came up with a brilliant idea. Due to lack of time we thought it would be a good idea to pack our bags and leave Pakistan behind us to go on to the next stop on “our road journal”; Afghanistan.

In Pakistan we took a direct airline to Kabul, which is the capital of Afghanistan. Kabul has 30,419,928 inhabitants and their official language is Pashto and Dari (=Persian).

We had only arrived at the airport for five minutes and it was clear that we would see the military everywhere. At the airport we were transferred to the Pamir Mountains.

The peak of these mountains is called Ismail Samani Peak and these mountains are 7,495m high. A guide wanted to show us the most beautiful places in this area and the trip took about 2 days. On our way we slept in a cabin and in a shepherd’s shed. We saw some beautiful landscapes, but one thing is sure, the walking trip was the most precarious I had done in my life. And as you should know, I’m in a girl scouting movement, we walk a lot. I have been in the Flemish Ardennes, Italy, Corse and many more.

At night we were very tired so we slept in the bus on our way back to the hotel in Kabul. The hotel was named Kabul Serena Hotel and it had a swimming pool.

Today (Wednesday morning), we woke up at about 7 am and we wanted to visit the capital of Afghanistan. We left early and visited the National Museum of Afghanistan.

The National Museum of Afghanistan was established in 1922. The building outside is not really attractive.  But we thought, the only thing that matters is the inside. So we entered and walked around. They had told us the collection had been the most important of Central Asia. There are over 100,000 items that are dated back over several millennia. We saw many treasures of ivory. For example antiquities from Kushan. There were also many archaeological materials such as painted frescos from Dilberjin, fragments of architecture, sculpture, metal objects and coins who were rescued from the French excavations at Ai-Khanoum and Surkh Kotal.

After the tour in the National Museum of Afghanistan we didn’t have any energy left to walk around in the city so we went back to our hotel where there was a pool. We swam until dinner.

After dinner we had a few drinks and left for bed.

Now everyone is asleep so  I think I really should go to bed now as well.

Sweet dreams.

Julie

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Afghanistan

Photos:

Charlotte, Kimberly and Amina before the Pamir mountains.

Eline, Julie and Jihane before the pool at the hotel in Kabul.