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Outside the Bubble Pics & Video |
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Written by JD Johannes
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Friday, 04 September 2009 |
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The rose garden at the Serena Hotel
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| View from a stairwell inside the Serena showing many sides of Kabul. Armored SUVs in the parking lot and fortified gate, office tower, mosque and shanty houses going up TV hill. |
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| The front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, one of the many places I rested my head during the trip. |
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| Taxi cabs of Kabul. |
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| One of my many taxi drivers. |
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| One of the most common vehicles in Afghanistan. Toyota has dominated the vehicle market in recent years. |
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| H-JD the best interpreter/fixer in Kabul. |
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| Khoti Gar, the crumbling, dusty Kabul. |
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| The permanent traffic jam around the traffic circle. |
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| The day laborers of Khoti Gar. |
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| Shar e Naw, or the New City. |
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| A mini-mart in Shar e Naw |
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| Street merchants set up in an alley. |
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| A campaign poster for Abdullah Abdullah. |
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| A campaign poster for Hamid Karzai. |
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| Street cuisine, grilled lamb. |
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Outside of the New City mall.
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| One of the western style grocery stores in Kabul. |
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The gas stations work just like in the US, but with out the credit card option.
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| The Police are everywhere. |
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| A side walk book seller. |
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| One look in blue shirt, cap. |
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| And with white shirt, no cap. Subtle changes can give you extra seconds and thow of trackers. |
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| The influence of MTV. |
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(The companion text blog to this photo essay can be found here .)
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