Day 6 - Istalif, Shomali Plain, Hindu Kush Mountains
March 10th 2006 Today is Friday, the Sabbath. We begin our day in the northern part of Kabul, where the sun is up, the dust is down, and it is warming up. As we travel north, up through the Shomali Plain, we witness additional evidence of decades of war - first, the Russians invaded along this route, so both the mujahedeen and Russians laid anti-personnel and anti-tank mines that remain today; then, the Taliban
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