Like a picture from m book! Bala hissar
Today I woke up very early so I decided to go for a swim. I enjoyed it so much last night that this was the first thing I wanted to do again and I have to stay healthy of course!
I ran into Eline this morning and together we went to the pool. When we were ready the others were already waiting for us to eat some breakfast.
After breakfast we hit the city again because yesterday we didn’t have a lot of time!
Before our trip I read a book about the history of Afghanistan. There was one building that was realy fascinating “Bala Hissar”, so now that we’re here I really wanted to see this.
Bala hissar is the first bastion built in the 5th century. It was the “headquarter” of the lords of Afghanistan. A lot of episodes found place in this bastion, the first Afghanis/English war were situated here. But after the second war, the bastion was destroyed by a British army.
When I looked at the bastion I could really feel how it was back in the days. You can see that there are some details that show you the bastion is from the 5th century.
We liked it a lot in Kabul but we decided that it was time to go. You can read a lot of bad stories in the newspapers, on the internet, television, … And we’ve also noticed that this is not an ideal place to stay longer. It was a beautiful city but due to the bombardments 65% of the old center and 40% of the churches and houses were destroyed.
It is safer for us as a tourist to go to another place and we still have a long way to go!
I will always remember Kabul because of its big diversity the beauty of the buildings but also the way we could face how bad war is in this country.
We’re now about to take a nap at our hotel and after that we will take the bus to Iran!
Time to sleep!
We’re ready to hit Iran. We’ll meet again in Iran!
Kimberly
Sources :
https://petermarkusopmissieinafghanistan.blogspot.be/2012/02/bala-hissar.html
https://reizen.idealo.nl/land/Afghanistan-AF/