Traveling to Afghanistan on the 1970s, was not exactly a piece of cake, especially if you choose to do it by land. In addition the infrastructure, or lack of it discouraged anyone who had not really the spirit of travelers.

But perhaps this was one of the main reasons for the pleasure of those who, like me, were there at that time. Those who had the privilege to met a friendly and hospitable people, knowing a virtually untouched society and one of the most amazing and inhospitable landscapes, all this, unfortunately, in one of the last peaceful periods in their recent history. Before the Soviets, Talibans and Yankees, in turn, add the word violence to the name of this country.

To Afghanistan, I would rather add the good memories I have from there, those friends that the road brings and those scenes the eyes capture and the heart (luckily, also the camera) stores. Many of these memories and these scenes are scattered in this collection. I wish these images show to those who have known this Country only through the sad headlines in the last decades, what I believe is the real Afghanistan.

The white doves on Masar-i-Shariff’s square seem to tell us that peace is the destiny of this nation.