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Kabul – Gardens of Babur and Kart-e Sakhi Mosque

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 14, 2013December 9, 2016 6 Comments

The Gardens of Babur are a welcome oasis to the dusty, dirty streets of Kabul. Inside the steeped gates (where admission is 25x higher for foreigners than for Afghans, but still only 250 afghanis or ~$4.70) sits the final...

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Kabul – National Museum of Afghanistan

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 12, 2013December 9, 2016 4 Comments

Around the corner from the Darul Aman Palace sits the National Museum of Afghanistan, offering a bitter reminder of Afghanistan’s stormy history. The museum once boasted one of the world’s premier collections of Central Asian artifacts dating back several...

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Kabul – TV Tower Hill and Darul Aman Palace

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 11, 2013December 9, 2016 3 Comments

Our first stop was TV Tower Hill, the highest point in Kabul. Getting up to the top of the hill was no easy task, even in our Toyota 4Runner. Roads are made of gravel, rocks, and dirt and it...

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My Hotel, er Compound, in Kabul, Afghanistan

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 10, 2013December 9, 2016 5 Comments

When my driver pulled up to my “hotel” down a quiet side street in central Kabul, my bodyguard dutifully jumped out and scanned the street for anything out of the ordinary. But the street was deserted and eerily silent...

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The Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 9, 2013December 9, 2016 11 Comments

About two hours north of Kabul lies the Panjshir Valley, final resting place of Afghan hero Ahmad Shah Massoud and a site of relative tranquility amidst the struggles that have plagued Afghanistan for so long. The Soviets and later...

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Arrival in Afghanistan

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 6, 2013December 9, 2016 6 Comments

Stepping outside Kabul airport’s baggage claim area, the arrival lobby was eerily quiet.  There was no swarm of taxi drivers and tour operators I am accustomed to when arriving in a new country. Instead, there were just a few...

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Dubai to Kabul on Ariana Afghan Airlines

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 5, 2013December 9, 2016 8 Comments

After landing in Dubai around 10pm, I had 6 hours before my connection to Kabul. It was too early for Dnata to check me in and I had no lounge access so I set out looking for a bench...

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Jeddah to Dubai in Saudia Economy Class

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 3, 2013December 9, 2016 3 Comments

After a refreshing stay at the Park Hyatt Jeddah, it was time to continue my journey to Dubai. The same driver who brought me to the property the afternoon before took me back, dropping me off about two hour...

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New York JFK to Jeddah in Saudia Economy Class

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 28, 2013December 9, 2016 9 Comments

Flying on a new airline for the first time is always fun. There’s a bit of apprehension—will the service be good? How about the IFE? And the food? You can eliminate a lot of the guesswork through Google, Flyertalk,...

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Introduction: A Journey to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 19, 2013January 8, 2017 5 Comments

When Saudia Airlines (formerly Saudi Arabian Airlines) offered an amazing $557 r/t deal from New York to Dubai via Jeddah last December, I jumped on it—but it was not because I had any desire to go to Dubai. Saudia...

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