Day-to-day photos of Herat

The traders' skill at putting these melons on show. The kids very gladly helped us as for a reference as to their size.

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Herat's Minarets

General view over Herat and its minarets from the new five-star hotel, opened 3 weeks previously at the end of June.

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Boys and girls coming out of school

Boys and girls coming out of a private school, the girls´ uniforms consisting of light cream trousers, blue jacket with cream stripes and a cream-striped white shawl to match the jacket and trousers, getting into school cars. The most important thing: How happy they are! As are we: One of the fundamental rights of childhood is becoming normality: the children have access to education, and in this country we rejoice at the fact that GIRLS ARE GOING TO SCHOOL.

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Technology: photocopies and printing

Trying to make photocopies and print from our memory stick. Between a multitude of experts, curious onlookers, ancient machines from God knows when, a lot of dust, dried-up ink and many half-empty cups of tea, they manage it, and astound us: The quality is just as good as what we are used to.