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Zaknafien
10-02-2006, 16:53
Here's a link to my photobucket album of Afghanistan. The ones towards the back of the album are the oldest, when we first arrived in Zabol province, which is a few miles north of Khandahar. Now we're in Ghazni province, which is furhter north, and seat of the Ghaznavid Empire.

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CCo.jpg
Deychopan mountains, Firebase Lane Zabol

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/Picture166.jpg
The Green part---Calakor Valley, Zabol
GiantMonkeyMan
10-02-2006, 17:36
everyone seems to love the EB forums and not post on the rest of the .org :laugh4: i'm sorry, but i suppose that this should go in the Frontroom :juggle2: some cool picture however
Sarkiss
10-02-2006, 17:48
hey, cool pics, thanks for sharing.
MSB
10-02-2006, 18:00
Small sugestion:
Although the pictures are very nice and show lovley landscapes can I suggest that you write in the post something to do with EB (eg. that you think that the Pashtunistan landscape should look more like the photos in EB) or a moderator (probably Epistolary Richard) will move it to the Tavern Frontroom or worse close it and give you warning points. Do it now if you want to keep the pictures here!

And are you, by posting the pictures, compromising military secrets and sercurity? Tut tut tut tut.... :laugh4:
Foot
10-02-2006, 18:13
Oh no, EB members requested these pictures from him. Honest.

But wow, the landscape looks incredible. What a beautiful part of the world.

Foot
Zaknafien
10-02-2006, 18:31
Heh, can a mod edit the title to make it a Bactrian research thread or some such?
Wardo
10-02-2006, 19:25
Impressive, just like in the game. EB is doing a wonderful job! :2thumbsup:

:sweatdrop:
Zaknafien
10-02-2006, 20:29
Here's a few more, glad everyone enjoys. Those mountains are no joke, let me tell you that from first hand experience.

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/DSC00130.jpg


https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CIMG0791.jpg

A typical afghan Kalay, or village. Kalay originally meant a hill fort or fortified place, and there are thousands of villages called this-Kalay or that-Kalay.

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/100_0054.jpg

The desolation of the Larzab Bowl, watered by the Arghendab river in the center.

The craziest phenonemon here however, must be the "Wind of 120 Days" which blows from mid summer to fall. Daily wind and dust storms for three-four hours at nearly the same time every day. Even sometimes at night during this time, if you shine your flashlight, there is fine, silt-like sand blowing constantly through the air.
CountArach
10-02-2006, 22:09
Woah, that first picture in the post above me rocks!
Dayve
10-02-2006, 23:09
This is an EB forum...

(This post was serious)
Birka Viking
10-03-2006, 01:20
WOW nice pics man...:2thumbsup: :2thumbsup: :2thumbsup:
Mujalumbo
10-03-2006, 02:09
Damn.

I love pics of different places.

Pics do say a thousand words. You can ready the print about how Afghanistan is "mountainous and arid" and so on, but some things just have to be seen to be believed.
NeoSpartan
10-03-2006, 02:50
Awesome pics man! :2thumbsup: We rarely get to see such good pics of Afganistan in the news.

I wish you and your buddies good luck. Hua.
Trithemius
10-03-2006, 03:15
Oh no, EB members requested these pictures from him. Honest.

But wow, the landscape looks incredible. What a beautiful part of the world.

Foot

Hey I did request them! I needed some visual aids to assist in my imaginings of my Baktrian empire. :sweatdrop:

Great pics,Zaknafien!
Teleklos Archelaou
10-03-2006, 03:28
Woah, that first picture in the post above me rocks!
Hehe. "Rocks!" :laugh4:
-Praetor-
10-03-2006, 04:45
The craziest phenonemon here however, must be the "Wind of 120 Days" which blows from mid summer to fall. Daily wind and dust storms for three-four hours at nearly the same time every day. Even sometimes at night during this time, if you shine your flashlight, there is fine, silt-like sand blowing constantly through the air.

Is that the "Bad i sad o bistroz"?

I remember having read something like that on a Reader`s Digest some like 7 years ago...


Woah, that first picture in the post above me rocks!


Hehe. "Rocks!"

:inquisitive: :elephant: Cuack!!!
MSB
10-03-2006, 06:43
https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/DSC00130.jpg

Lovley pictures. The moutains in the back look un-real, they look CGI. It's a beautiful place. I also like the little village, it's a perfect symbol of the wonderful culture of the east. If it wasn't a war zone I would be tempted to visit.

Good look to you and your mates in Afganistan.
Slartibardfast
10-03-2006, 09:04
Thanks Zaknafien brilliant pics of one of the worlds most visually stunning countries. No wonder it was such a magnet for hippies and western junkies before the Russians invaded. If its cool to post more like them with descriptions as you did with the Kalay and the Larzab Bowl of the Arghendab river please do so.

Seriously though I'd edit out those first two pics and keep the ones you post here to scenics & landscapes and aviod posting ones with times, dates or any of you guys actually in them.

Stay well!
Sarkiss
10-03-2006, 18:43
once again great pics! those landscapes are amazing! you should have seen the ones in Armenia!
btw, if EB had its own forum, like RTR has, and not just a subforum, no one would have had to say 'wrong forum'. own forum is one of the things that unites fans, they get hook on it, makes mod more popular attracting more folks. sure would have serve the same way for EB.
...just a thought.
Zaknafien
10-04-2006, 01:55
https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CIMG0573.jpg

Looks alot like Arizona, huh?

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CIMG0575.jpgA Pashtun man and two children--I dont know what they were doing, honestly. Collecting rocks or something maybe, these people are crazy :2thumbsup:

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CIMG0572.jpg

A typical mud-bricked house, this one in an abandoned village, where water went dry thirty years ago--kinda eerie really. They fill the space between the mud bricks with grass and such to make their walls.

https://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e286/Alhazenalrashid/CIMG0796.jpg

Khak-I Afghan, in northern Zabol province
MSB
10-04-2006, 08:19
Beautiful, simply beautiful. The last one looks like a combination of North Yorkshire (in England) and a desert region all it one. Marvellous!
pezhetairoi
10-06-2006, 12:58
That CGI mountains one would be a worthy battlefield if there were some way to include it in one of the strat map tiles... truly! awesome vistas.
CountArach
10-07-2006, 01:27
Hehe. "Rocks!" :laugh4:

Thank you! Thank yoU! I'll be here all week.

(IT was intentional :laugh4: )