My Travel Story

by Khalil Rahimi (Afghanistan)

A leap into the unknown Afghanistan

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One of my life remembering travels was the travel to Panjshir, it was the most attractive and fabulous travel I have had in my entire life. Panjshir the mountainous province full of beautiful and eye-catching views is located in the northern part of Afghanistan, about 40 km away from Kabul city and it has a cold temperature compared to the other provinces. Before traveling to Panjshir, I had heard a lot about it from my friends and relatives, they were telling me about the beauty and natural views of Panjshir. Regardless of the beauties. They believed that it is a place where the mind can be relaxed and everyone can find the real enjoyment of life. Hearing these all made me eager to get to Panjshir as soon as I can but at the moment I just started searching on the internet to look out its beauties and find out that whether my friends are exaggerating about Panjshir or not. When I saw the unbelievable beautiful pictures of panjshir on the internet, I just became sure that my friends are right and became impatient to visit this amazing place. I was eagerly waiting to visit this place. To add, it was early morning and the first day of my vacation that I started my travel from Kabul to Panjshir, accompanied by some close friends. Furthermore, After one hour of travel in the car, we just entered the beautiful Panjshir, my eyes have been put on vast, green and a mountainous field, It looked pretty weird because I have not been seen any place like this before. I was looking to the field crazily while shifting my seat to left and right in the car to see both sides of the outfield and just not to miss seeing any single beauty. Moving on, I just saw a pretty spot and I thought it would be the most beautiful area to stay, so I told to the driver to stop the car near to a far appearing waterfall, but he replied that he will take us to the more beautiful place. Going forward, we reached to a hotel by the name of (Panjshir regional hotel). The hotel was offering various Panjshiri special foods, but my friends and I ordered its biryani (a kind of rice scrambled with chicken meat, usually has a bitter taste) which is much popular in all panjshir and that was mouthwatering. Subsequently, we showed up to the target place, I turned my head up and saw the surrounding and environment where we would like to set our shelter up. It was a natural beatified place, having a huge opened meadow and grass, a high mountainous range with partly snow, the water was flowing as a small river under the mountains, and all of these composed and created an outstanding landscape. As I had heard, I found myself very peaceful and relaxed by enjoying life. Afterward, I swam in the river and then sat to the sunbath (assuming as I am on the beach or the shore). Besides, when it was night, we gathered for singing, telling poems, jokes, and stories full of rhythm and rhyme. To top it off, we have climbed to half of the mountain and had our breakfast there, looking down from top to the green land and the herd along with a herder will surely give everyone prosperous and pleased feeling about life. To conclude, I have been gone too many places on travel and visit but the travel to Panjshir reminds me of every second and minute I spent there because of the beautiful and natural places and it has been the best travel I had in my whole life. This travel made me addicted to explore the world and find such beauties that make life worthy to live.