Travel To Afghanistan: The Subsequent Frontier?

If I had been to look back on some of the locations I’ve traveled to lately — Colombia, Argentina, Vietnam, Cambodia, Mozambique — as recently as even a decade ago, individuals would’ve believed I was crazy to travel to some of these countries. So is the prospect that travel to Afghanistan really that far-fetched of an idea? Don’t fail to remember, Afghanistan — as part of the so-referred to as “Hippie Trail” of the ’60s and ’70s — was when effectively on the “beaten track.”

Outside Magazine not too long ago made the decision to examine out what travel was like these days in the war-torn country. For a mere $three,700 it would seem intrepid travelers can sign up with Hinterland Travel — a U.K.-based travel enterprise — for a whirlwind tour of some of the country’s best ruins, magnificent Central Asian vistas, and, oh yeah, likely a number of encounters with members of each the Taliban and the United States military forces.

And who can you count on on this trip with you? Oh, the normal hodgepodge of British, Danish, and American visitors, and as the author encountered, possibly even a Indian septuagenarian.

The oldest individual in our group was a tiny, 75-12 months-outdated Indian girl named Bithi Das, who walked with a cane and exuded Yoda-like tranquillity. She was going to Libya and Uzbekistan just after this, and seemed to have a philosophical get about chance.

“I will die,” she told me at a single point. “We all will die. It is Ok.”