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KABUL, Afghanistan — By plane, motorbike, camper van and even on bicycles, tourists are beginning to discover Afghanistan, with solo travelers and tour groups gradually venturing into a country that ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: Danger tourism: Meet the travellers flocking to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
One of the world’s most oppressive regimes is cashing in on the growing trend of ‘danger tourism’. In 2021, the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan following a 20-year US military-led mission to ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: DHS Claims Tourism To Afghanistan Reason To End Immigration Protection
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan
With the war now over, the Taliban are welcoming foreign travelers, even as governments advise their citizens to stay away. Yi-Pin Lin, a tourist from the United States, and his Afghan guide, Hijrat ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: Female tour guides in Afghanistan lead women-only groups as some travelers return
KABUL, Afghanistan — They wandered through the museum, listening attentively as their guide explained the antiquities in display cabinets. It could have been any tour group, anywhere in the world. But ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: No vacationer's paradise, war-weary Afghanistan sees revival of tourism
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In the 1960s and 1970s, Afghanistan was part of the hippie trail, a magnet for stoned backpackers seeking nirvana. Well-heeled tourists also came to visit. Afghanistan's rugged ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: The occidental tourist Afghanistan tourism making a comeback --
KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's late afternoon on Chicken Street and the Afghan carpet dealers are eyeing the only customer left: a foreign peacekeeper in camouflage fatigues with a flak jacket strapped ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: War tourism in Afghanistan: Adventure or reckless hedonism?
Thousands of people are fleeing the conflict roiling Afghanistan, but American backpacker John Milton recently made the reverse journey to the war-ravaged country — for a holiday. Armed with little ...
News Afghanistan » Kabul » Tourism: Travel influencers boost tourism to Taliban-run Afghanistan
Margaritta, a 33-year-old travel influencer from Germany, embarked on a three-month solo trip through Afghanistan in May 2024. Despite a “media echo that Afghanistan was not safe,” she said, “I was ...