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I knew that being where the Buddha's had been would be a very powerful experience, but I did not expect to get as emotional as I got. I could not control the tears rolling down my cheeks. Every body was quiet.
There are lots of man made cave structures in Bamiyan both immediately around the Buddhas and in other parts of the province.
The area right before the sites have been turned into a cemetery. Most graves have no form of identification except for a hump of earth which distinguishes them from the rest of the land.
The magic moment of turning the corner and for the first time seeing the empty niches of the buddhas.
You would think that in town reknowned for it's largest ancient buddha statues, they would know how to spell Buddha correctly by now.
I guess as long as we call an ostrich a "shotor morgh" (camel hen) in Farsi, it makes sense that the Afghans call the Turkey, a "Fiel morgh" (elephant hen).
On the way, we passed by a bizarre concrete structure painted in pastel blue and protected by barbed wire. We were told it was a western style hotel owned by an Afghan and his Japanese wife. Not my cup of tea. I had not come all the way to the middle of Afghanistan to stay at an over priced western style hotel. It was closed anyway.
The lobby of the hotel was in the belly of the cube, surrounded by other rooms in the concrete structure, for less "adventurous" guests.
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