Afghanistan – 1990

Just a day spent in Kabul airport, waiting for a connecting flight to Delhi. As we approached Kabul, the airport looked like a speck in the desert and hills below. We descended slowly in wide circles, eventually landing beside a burnt-out MiG on the tarmac.
We then disembarked and spent several hours sitting outside a dry, dusty airport building. The reason for the slow, circling descent soon became clear when the next plane approached. It came in from a high altitude, releasing what I assumed were missile-deflecting flares as it descended. Weeks later, while sitting in Kathmandu, I read a story describing how Scud missiles had rocked Kabul airport.Click here to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.