Today, the ecotourism destination I am talking about is the one that everyone would associate with anything but tourism. Did you even in your wildest dreams ever think of Afghanistan, a place that is denigrated for bloodshed, insurgents and...

A giant statue of a Buddha has been discovered in central Afghanistan, near to the ruins of the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas.

Carved into a mountainside above the central city of Bamiyan in the third and fifth centuries, were the Buddhas, considered international cultural treasures. The larger of the two, at 175 feet high, is thought to have been the world’s tallest...

Bamiyan, a province in Afghanistan that is about 140 miles northwest of Kabul is well known due to colossus statues of Buddha that connect past with the present. It came once again into the limelight in March 2001 when foes of art and...

A monaqqaba (women dressed in full niqab) broke into the Hassan Heshmat Museum in May 2006 and destroyed a number of statues including The Victory Leap, the artist’s testament to the heroism of Egyptian troops in the 1973 War. Promptly...