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...taste for it. Local English teacher Najib Kuraishi, 20, relates how crowds would gather at public executions held by the Taliban. "Well, it was quite something to see, a line of 10 people being hanged," he says. Asked if he will ever give up his gun, one Northern Alliance commander says, "Never. An Afghan is not a man without...
...these troubled times, few want to leave home. And many of those who do are avoiding the punishing, extreme adventure packages so popular in recent years. Instead, traumatized travelers are looking for the holiday equivalent of comfort food. And in Vietnam's overnight train from Hanoi to the northern town of Sapa, they've found it. The express, launched two years ago by the Paris-based Victoria hotel chain, is really three specially outfitted carriages added to the regular night train from Hanoi to the northern border town of Lao Cai. The journey is such a pleasure that, contrary...
...haven within a haven, 1,600-m-high Sapa, the express's northern destination, couldn't be more ideal. A former French-colonial hill station near the northern border with China, it has in recent years gone from a nearly forgotten outpost to a popular weekend getaway, partly due to the success of the luxury train. But Sapa still has almost no nightlife and hasn't even gotten around to assigning names to its streets. Surrounded by mountains, bamboo forests and dramatic rice terraces, the town is just as enticing as the journey?if you can tear yourself away from...
Many other arms stretched the same way: Indian, Persian, Arab, Mongol, Turkish, Chinese. There were also lesser-known tribal groups, like the Kushans, a Central Asian nomadic lot who around the start of the Christian era controlled northern India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using the Kabul region as a summer vacation spot. For all their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse...
...History" offers within the space of a few meters Bronze Age statues from around 2000 B.C. and a bank of computer terminals with access to websites featuring breaking news on Afghanistan. Events have overtaken the exhibition: a map of Afghanistan shows roughly 10% of the land held by the Northern Alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud. He's now dead, and his soldiers, thanks to intense bombardment by the U.S., now dominate almost the whole country...