If you look closer here, you will see the dead goat at the feet of the horses. The riders gather around it. As soon as one of them manages to grab the goat the others will chase him, and try to take it from him. It is actually quite difficult to understand what it is happening during the game.

Bushkashi

With no respect for the horses, the players crash into each others in order to steal the dead goat from the other players.

One of the last bushkashi of the season

This sport is extremely violent for both men and horses. It is played on a bounderyless area. So people are standing next to the action and risk at anytime to be trampled on by the horses.

Our street

Some hazarats (mogolian descendants) sunbathing at the begining of our street.

Kabul Bank

Our bank, all our fortune is well kept! :-)

Buses on top of each others

A graveyard for buses. Hundreds of them are piled up on top of each others. Weird!

Friday Prayer - 1

Afghanistan's biggest mosque (Majdid Idga). Hundreds of men go to the weekly prayer on friday morning.

Friday Prayer - 2

A local mosque (close to where we live). It gets so crowded on weekends (fridays) that worshippers can not find a place inside the mosque and are forced to sit outside on the sidewalk.

A truck crashes

A truck missed the curve. For no apparent reasons, all the trucks are decorated

with, as some would say, fancy/ psychadelic paintings.

Women drinking tea

Tea Time at the beginning of butcher street. As the one woman in the back

shows, women may not show their face to stranger, so she turns her face to the wall in order to sip tea.

Afghan carpets

You find a lot of small shops selling carpets in Kabul. We went with a Danish friend of ours (Erna) to visit this shop. She has been in Afghanistan on and off for the last five years, and knows this carpet seller very well. We ended up buying a carpet here. Not the one on the picture, but the same style and colors. It is from Herat and made by a family called Musvani. The carpet is a mix of Kelim and normal knitted carpet.

Butcher Street

In the centre of Kabul there is a street called Butcher Street. Here you have a big selection of shops that sell all kind of food. The meat is always hanging outside like on this picture. Sometimes a living sheep or cow is standing just next to the meat, waiting for its turn.

Dogs

Me and our dog Spy in front of the house. There are a lot of dogs in Kabul. And they are in general very big. They are used for dog fights, which take place early weekend mornings. Our dog though is not a fighter, he is a lover.