The Deep Blue Lakes of Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan
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The name Afghanistan invokes images of a dry and arid country with mountainous terrain, endless desert, thorn bushes and mud houses. But at the center of this depressing landscape is a series of spectacular lakes with water so blue that it looks almost like ink.
Band-e Amir is a series of six incredibly deep blue lakes in the heart of the central Afghanistan. The lakes are situated in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, the second highest mountain range in the world, 80 kilometers from the ancient town of Bamiyan, where the Taliban destroyed the world’s tallest Buddha statues in 2001. Surrounded by pink towering limestone cliffs almost in complete lack of vegetation, the stunning lakes seems totally out of place.
The beautiful lakes were created by the carbon dioxide rich water that is drawn from the spring melt-water in the surrounding mountains and came out from faults and cracks in the rocky landscape. This outflow of water percolates slowly through the underlying limestone, dissolving its principal mineral, calcium carbonate. Over time, the water deposited layers of hardened mineral (travertine), which created dams that trap water in increasingly large basins. These dams are usually about 10m high and 3m wide. Water cascades from one lake to the other near travertine terraces serving as massive natural dams between the lakes.
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nice!
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you was there?
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Yamdrok tso - Central Tibet
Peiku tso with Mt Shishuangpangma as the backdrop - Tibet
Lake Manasarovar - Western Tibet
Lake Manasarovar the next day after a snow storm
Road to the Lost Kingdom of Guge - Western Tibet
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
you was there?
haha..nopeToo dangerous to be there anyway, the country is in a mess right now.
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Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:
haha..nopeToo dangerous to be there anyway, the country is in a mess right now.
A friend of mine came back from there not too long ago -
Originally posted by SevenEleven:
A friend of mine came back from there not too long ago
Strange, people are avoiding going there, your friend sure love to live dangerously. He's American? -
Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:
Strange, people are avoiding going there, your friend sure love to live dangerously. He's American?
nope. a singaporean -
Originally posted by SevenEleven: nope. a singaporean
In the singapore army or something? Hope he's not a taliban -
Originally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:
In the singapore army or something? Hope he's not a talibana chinese civilian lah....for the ardenline
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Originally posted by SevenEleven:
a chinese civilian lah....for the ardenline
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Anyone can recognise where this place is?
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This is really nice. A place to visit only if the country was not at war.
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Originally posted by I.imba:
A place to visit only if the country was not at war.
At least the Afghans are doing a service to the world by tying down U.S troops and resources there.
You don't tie done the U.S, they will attack more countries and kill more people.
Attack Seven Countries In Five Years
An interview with General Wesley Clark
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17253.htm
Thirty-Six Strategies:
Strategy 4
Await the Exhausted Enemy at Your Ease
It is an advantage to choose the time and place for battle.
In this way you know when and where the battle will take place, while your enemy does not.
Encourage your enemy to expend his energy in futile quests while you conserve your strength.
When he is exhausted and confused, you attack with energy and purpose.
http://www.chinastrategies.com/List.htm#Strategy 4
Russia urges NATO to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urged NATO to keep its forces in Afghanistan beyond President Barack Obama's 2014 deadline for withdrawing from the decade-old war...
Encourage your enemy to expend his energy in futile quests while you conserve your strength.
