If you’re going to take a photo of a truck full of cattle skins, do remember to occasionally keep an eye out for open sewers. …



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During out wake-up-with-the-city session this morning, ad-hoc interviewing grain merchants, and under the watchful eyes. Talk one of our local fixers through Hitchcock’s The Birds.
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How does Ramadan – the Islamic month of fasting during which time the devout avoid eating and drinking between dawn and dusk, impact on your …
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Stepped out of a series of ad-hoc interviews with hawala agents, to find this gent punting this 1910 hundred rouble banknote to the currency dealers …
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A twenty year old Sony calculator wrapped by a carpenter made casing, and still in use by its one owner – a Mazar e Sharif …
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How much honesty do you expect from an in-flight magazine? Bored passengers on Afghan airline Safi, are entertained by an inflight magazine jam-packed with Afghan alternative …
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