Afghanistan - November 2004 to February, 2007 Photo Gallery by Rene Little at pbase.com

Afghanistan - November 2004 to February, 2007

We arrived in Afghanistan in November of 2004 and worked there in the construction industry until February, 2007

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Camel Train	Rugged Afghanistan 31 October, 2004	Afghanistan from the plane	On the way to Shebirghan, north of the capital Kabul
Afghanistan 6 November, 2004	Winter in the mountains on the way to Shiberghan	Winter is almost here 6 November, 2004	Mud house in progress
Local Afghans 10 November, 2004	Mountains of the Hindu Kush	We moved to the camp 6 months after arriving in Afghanistan	Mud houses are very common
This is typical throughout the entire country	Colourful doors are very common throughout the country green and blue being most popular	Map of Afghanistan	Camel train going to market 7 November, 2004
It's common to dress horses with flowers	The old and the new 10 November, 2004	Najib	We lived in this street while the camp was being built
Our street	Dave and Rene newly arrived in Shiberghan 13 November, 2004	Dave getting to know the guys 13 November 04	An array of drinks for Dave's birthday
Meeting Enver 13 November, 2004	Dinner with our new friends for Dave's birthday which was on 11 November, 2004	Dave cutting the cake	A pleasant evening for Daves birthday
Dave's birthday cake 13 November, 2004	Typical housing 6 November, 2004	House under construction 15 November, 2004	Local boys with their donkey 15 November, 2004
Local boys with their goat 15 November 2004	What a Stud	Local lads 15 November, 2004	Couple of the local lads
Local resident 15 November, 2004	Man and his donkey with the construction of the camp happening behind him 15 November, 2004	Our neighbours, taken from our camp	Small village 15 November, 2005
Village in the distance from the camp 15 November, 2004	Office in Shiberghan 17 November 2004	Our temporary house until the camp is built.jpg	Our lounge room-kitchen
Lounge 18 November, 2004	Our bathroom 18 November, 2004	Dave in the office in Shiberghan 20 November 2004	The scarf & modest clothing is a must in Afghanistan
Putting out the flames 2 December, 2004	Heating Shiberghan style 3 December, 2004	Street view from our house	Street view from house
Street view from house	Our neighbours in town	Our supermarket in Mazar-E-Sharif 16 November, 2004	Our supermarket in Mazar-E-Sharif front view
Supermarket 16 November, 2004	Women still wear the Burqa	Brothers	Friends
Local Lad in Mazar-E-Sharif	Lots of goodies in such a small shop	Inside our supermarket	Main street in Mazar-E-Sharif before peak hour
Buy anything shop in Shiberghan	Main street in Shiberghan	Market in Shiberghan 17 November, 2004	One of the most common modes of transport
Saidabad Village near our camp 21 December, 2004	This is the road being upgraded 21 December, 2004	Guards on duty 21 December, 2004	Afghan Workers 24 December, 2004
Constructing our camp	Construction	Afghan workers	Our security having a chat 24 December, 2004
The camp being built 24 December, 2004	Yummy garbage	Our office we used before moving into the camp	Our house being constructed in the camp
Our Kitchen to be 24 December, 2004	The Lounge Room to be	Our street, snow makes everything look prettier	Our office is situated in this guesthouse
The view from our lounge room 18 December, 2004	Beautiful Snow, I had never experienced snow before going to Afghanistan	Experimenting with macro 28 December, 2004	Flower peeping through
Experimenting with macro 28 December, 2004	Returning from the bazaar 14 February, 2004	The adies market	Galloping camel
Market Day	Main Street of Shiberghan	A lovely specimen 14 February, 2005	Sheep market in Shiberghan
Sheep for sale	A muddy mess	Almost like biblical times with their dress	Beasts of burden, donkeys have a pretty hard time
Beef Market 14 February, 2005	Boy and his donkey, this is such a common sight	Bustling market town	Camel taking produce to market
Cold winter's day	One of the many beggars 14 February, 2005		Local boys
Market Day	Market day in winter	Meat Market	Camel Market
Mode of transport	On the way home from the market	On the way to market	Posing for the camera
Taken on a cold winter day	The kids love being photographed	The lads	Market Day
Shiberghan a small town 600km from Kabul in Afghanistan	Lady wearing the burqa 15 February, 2005	Procession where the men perform self flagellation	Procession where the men perform self flagellation
Whipping themselves with metal chains	Ashura ceremony 19 February, 2005	Ashura ceremony	Chains used in ceremony
Watching the ceremony 19 February, 2005	Ashura ceremony	Ashura procession	Ashura procession
The procession	The procession passing our front door	The women looking on 19 February, 2005	The women don't take part in the ceremony 19 February, 2005
Digging up the gas pipes 27 February, 2005	Once upon a time there was a house..................	Village no more	Searching for UXO
UXO demining 27 February, 2005	UXO demining both man and dog at work	Now a child's playground 27 February, 2005	This relic dates back to the 1979-1989 conflict
Saidebad Village	Wonderful old man	Wonderful face	Sharing a cup of tea 27 February, 2005
Afghan camels are often used to plough the fields 3 March, 2005	Afghan countryside	Afghan village 3 March, 2005	Plastic and material flowers are used to decorate almost everything
Camels at work 3 March, 2005	Tedius work dodging cars and people	Flour mill	Inside an ancient flour mill used to this day
Handsome fellow 3 March, 2005	Old and the new	Ploughing the fields	Posing for the camera
Sar-E Pul 3 March, 2005	Sar-E Pul Town	Splendid Carriage
Street in Sar-E Pul	Local lads of Sar-E Pul	Main street into Sar-E Pul	Struggling with the load
No kisses please :-) 3 March, 2005	View from our camp	Village and fields. Afghanistan can be quite green during spring - mainly in the north	Perfect use of the tank - drying clothes
Tanks and shells no longer in use	Rene and Roberta in an obsolete tank	Goats and sheep on the move 3 March, 2005	The Shepherd's mind really isn't on the job
Herd of goats and sheep 3 March, 2005	Local lads 11 March, 2005	Nassamer worked in our office 12 March, 2005	Nassamer
Nassamer 12 March, 2005	Flying from Shiberghan to Kabul 13 March, 2005	Flying in the 9 seater plane 13 March, 2005	Serhat our Site Manager 13 March 2005
Snow capped mountains	Winter is over the snow is melting	Flying over mountains near Kabul 13 March, 2005	Map of Australia in the form of bread 13 March, 2005
Yukie the wonder dog was found running wild in the south of Afghanistan 14 March, 2005	Not another photo 14 March, 2005	Mother and daughter on the way home from market 28 March, 2005	Baby camel 28 March, 2005
Aerial view of camp 29 March, 2005	Aerial view	Aerial view	Burst of sunshine on the camp 29 March, 2005
Nepalese New Year 15 April, 2005	Our Nepalese security guards enjoying a dance	Happy New Year 15 April, 2005	The only female at the party
Party in full swing 15 April, 2005	LAST PHOTOS TAKEN IN SHIBERGHAN AND THE CAMP, NOW OFF TO KABUL 16 April, 2005	Shiberghan at its most beautiful 16 April, 2005	The (Flanders) Remembrance Poppy grows wild in northern Afghanistan
Secuity guard admiring the flowers	Our camp in Shiberghan	Turkish Bakery at the camp 17 April, 2005	Bread in the oven
A little treasure 17 April, 2005	Perfect baby donkey 17 April, 2005	The Wedding Party 2 June, 2005	The girls from the LBG office 2 June, 2005
Wedding Party 2 June, 2005	This little boy spent a lot of time outside our office in Kabul shining shoes	Cindy and Yuki 29 Aug 2005	Cindy and Yuki
Sarah and Yuki 29 Aug 2005	Yuki's ID	Our guard dog , don't you love her !! 29 Aug 2005	Kabul from the air 21 October, 2005
Kabul from the air	Kabul from the air	Kabul from the air 21 October, 2005	A smoking truck 21 October, 2005
Kabul from the air 21 October, 2005	Roadworks	Roadworks	Kabul Business Section 21 October, 2005
Rene and Dave at a wedding in Turkey 2005	Dining out in Kabul Afghanistan 24 December, 2005	Christmas morning with Yuki 2005	Cindy, Rene and Yuki 15 December, 2005
Turkeys for sale on a street corner on Christmas Day	We all work for the same company, LBG, in Afghanistan	Christmas group 25 December, 2005	Great turkey
Hadji cooking our Christmas turkey	Now we are really starving	Pass the turkey please 25 December, 2005	Approach to Kabul Airport in Afghanistan January, 2006
Approach to Kabul Airport	Snow in Kabul January, 2006	Snow in Kabul	Dave, Cindy and Yuki walking home for lunch 2 January, 2006
Cindy, Rene and Yuki outside our house	Snowman Afghanie style	An Afghan bazaar at one of the military bases	Mixing with the local vendors
A variety of jewelly and stones	Weird and wonderful trickets January, 2006	Carpets anyone	Shoes, bags and jewellery
Local seller selling pashminas and scarves	Fur salesman, mink is sold at most markets	Shopping January, 2006	An Afghan Bazaar
Friends posing for during the Eid holiday	An Eid feast January, 2006	Davo and Yuki having a chat over a Baileys 18 January, 2006	AUSTRALIA DAY IN AFGHANISTAN - Our wall display
Dave eating his meat pie and drinking Fosters on Aussie Day 26 Jan, 2006	Obligatory meat pie 26 January, 2006	Homemade lamingtons	Our American friends drinking Aussie red wine and Fosters beer
Must have a pavlova 26 Jan 2006	Yuki being bathed	Yuki Looking like a drowned rat	Love our Yuki
This 'bundle of joy' kept us sane many times over	Yuki snuggling to stay awake	Dave playing CSI 9 May, 2006	Bullet holes in the car
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Bullet holes 9 May, 2006	Dave pretty happy being in the chopper in Afghanistan 15 May, 2006	Security guard watching our cars along the road 12 July, 2006	<<<<>>>>
On the way to Pul e Alam 12 July 2006	On the way to Pul e Alam	Dave inspection something ??	Part of the something ??
We always had to travel with armed guards	On the way to Pul e Alam 12 July, 2006	On the way to Pul e Alam 12 July, 2006	Dave inspecting the road
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Dave chatting with Security 12 July, 2006	Security Guard looking at a cave in the mountain	The cave in the mountain	Pul e Alam 12 July, 2006
Security guards making sure we are safe	Security guards what would we do without them!!	Pul e Alam	Local lad wading in the stream
Local men relaxing by the stream	Local lads swimming	Back on the open road 12 July, 2006	Inspecting the road 12 July, 2006
Lunch at Red Hot Sizzling in Kabul for my 11th anniversary as an expat 8 October 2006	Chopper ride outside Kabul 11 October, 2006	Mountain road outside Kabul 11 October, 2006	Mountain road outside Kabul
Mountain road outside Kabul	Mountain road outside Kabul	Mountain road outside Kabul 11 October, 2006	Houses outside Kabul
Chopper ride outside Kabul	Chopper ride outside Kabul	Little villages dotted everywhere	Lake Qargha Dam near Kabul
Lake Qargha Dam near Kabul	Lake Qargha Dam near Kabul	Village from the air 11 October, 2006	Village from the air
Houses from the air 11 October, 2006	Little girl in the village 10 November, 2006	Shy of the camera	Boys outside a tiny local shop
Afghan family walking along the river	Autumn colours of Panjshir Valley	Construction of Massouds Memorial	Looking down from Massouds Memorial
Looking down from Massouds Memorial	Discarded Russian tanks along the side of the road	Discarded tanks are such a big part of the landscape in Afghanistan	Discarded Russian tanks everywhere
Man and his donkey	Massouds grave - Massoud is Afghanistans most famous war hero he was killed by the Taliban in September 2001	Panjshir Valley - Afghanistan	Panjshir Valley 10 November, 2006
Panjshir Valley approximately a 3 hour drive from Kabul	Mud is the predominate building material for houses throughout Afghanistan this is a more elaborate house	Discarded tanks litter the countryside	Wild goats are found right through the mountains
Just before the rains	First snow on the mountain tops 10 November, 2006	Kabul can be fairly dirty at times	Local shop at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains.jpg
Morning chat 24 November, 2006	Local Armed Guard	Ghurka Guard 24 November, 2006	Houses of the Hindu Kush
One of the peaks of the Hindu Kush Mountains.jpg	One of the massive snow gallaries in the Hindu Kush Mountains	Babbling brook	Hindu Kush Mountains 24 November, 2006
Hindu Kush November 24, 2006	There are many houses built on the sides of the mountains	Rene and Dave travelling through Hindu Kush	The Salang Tunnel built by the Russians opened in 1964
Inside the Salang Tunnel	Our driver and I standing in freezing temperatures	LBG Staff and Security in the Hindu Kush	Amazing Salang Tunnel built by the Russians opened in 1964
Rene outside the Salang Tunnel 24 November, 2006	Dave outside the Salang Tunnel	1 Rubbish in the streets 11 November 2006.jpg	Traffic on the Jalalabad Road Kabul 28 November, 2006
Traffic on the Jalalabad Road Kabul 28 November, 2006	Our office is in this street 3 December, 2006	Security guard on the job in the snow 3 December, 2006

Fernando Peres Rodrigues		05-Aug-2011 08:13
Congratulations for your gallery from Afghanistan, a country almost inacessible from decades. Your stay should be quite an experience. I Enjoyed a lot to see the collection of photos, thank you.

joseantonio		05-Aug-2011 07:55
Excellent document. Very nice work

Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)		04-Aug-2011 07:11
Incredible work,very well done,congrats! Vote Paolo

Rene Little		10-Jun-2009 12:03
Hello Everyone, it has been a very long time since I have looked at this gallery consequently, I haven't seen your comments. I am so pleased that you enjoyed the photos, Afghanistan was such a strange and wonderful place and I am so glad that I had the opportunity to visit and live there for a while. I do apologise for not responding to your comments before this. I am now in Juba, Southern Sudan, Africa and I will be starting a new gallery when possible. Thank you once again for taking the time to look at the galleries. Best Regards Rene

photoblogmaker		05-Feb-2009 08:09
Important reportage gallery! Best work! V

Guest		03-Feb-2009 16:16
Nice job. I was in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2006 and you have captured the country well.

Buba Jafarli		03-Feb-2009 04:43
A great report on Afghanistan! Voted!

Noor Khan		20-Jun-2007 06:53
A very nice gallery. Thanks for sharing. Afghanistan can be lovely in winter (and cold)!

24:00		12-Feb-2006 07:23
hi rene.... are you still live in afghan now?

Dimitri Sokolenko		27-Dec-2004 16:14
Nice photo reportage. Thank you for your pictures of Afghanistan.

24:00		01-Dec-2004 15:26
hihi...rene.... thanks for your informations, it's a good idea to call the Pakistan embassy in Hong Kong for help ....but, i think the situation changes too fast in afghan, so i better ask you again before i go.... rene, yes, "all" the people think that i am "crazy" when they know that i want to go to afghan, but you and me know that there is really a place worth to go....i'm so willing this trip... thank you so much, fred

24:00		29-Nov-2004 19:54
hi rene........thank you so much :) your reply is so helpful, you let me know that it's "possible" to go to afghan, i'm planning to go there overland from india - pakistan -afghan...on the next summer holiday... do you think that it's possible to get the visa in pakistan? i really want to take a look on "ba-me-yon".... i will let you know before i go to india.... it's so nice to know you, thanks so much. take care. fred

Rene Little		27-Nov-2004 16:26
Hello Fred, I sent a message to your pbase site I am having trouble with the internet tonight so I hope you received it, let me know if you haven't. I will resend it. cheers Rene

24:00		27-Nov-2004 15:55
hihi....rene....... it's great to see the photos of afghan.... how did you get there?? is now safe to go there?? where did you get the visa?? thank you so much!!! waiting for more... fred from hong kong

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