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Tourism in Afghanistan will be over if there is another attack soon, a tour agent says after terrorists kill Spanish tourists. Another says terror threat has always been there yet visitors have still come.
An excursion to Afghanistan? A sojourn in Syria? These travellers revel in taking bona fide tours to countries on the FCDO's no-go list
“We too want you to interact with people,” said Abdi. “Here, it’s like a prison. We cannot travel. Our passports are not accepted. So, if we cannot see the world, we bring the world here. We want people to realise there is another way to live, a normal life.” It seemed churlish to suggest normal life was illusory for most of us. Covid was a concern but not a preoccupation in Mogadishu. As we talked, the adhan was called out from the hotel’s mosque. A boy carried a carpet into the courtyard and unfurled it. Men of all ages jogged over, standing in rows, offering gentle, lyrical res...
After she began writing her posts, everything changed. Fatima says started getting comments and responses from her new online friends. In 2020, one of them -- a man known as "Big Tom" -- reached out to her saying he was going to be traveling in Afghanistan and would she be interested in showing him around in Herat? She said yes. They went to the Herat Citadel, to the National Museum and to a traditional tea house. Tom recommended her to someone else, and Fatima continued to get work by word of mouth. Eventually she came to the attention of Untamed Borders, a boutique travel agency that spec...