Taliban now seem to be in control of Bamiyan province. Only the Panjshir Valley remains out of their control, the home of Ahmed Shah Massoud and now seat of the remains of the Northern Alliance and the old vice president who claims a Taiwan style 'Islamic Republic of Afghanistan' in that valley, with the rest of the country under the Taliban. Let's see if that flares up into something major. Taliban have issued an amnesty and claim they will respect women's rights and not make Afghanistan a base from which other countries are attacked.
They are certainly making all the right noises.
For the rest of your trip, I hope you can make it. I've not been to Afghan Badakhshan (Wakhan corridor) but there is a lot to see in Tajikistan and the rest of Central Asia. But with Iran, Russia and Kazakhstan currently closed, there would be no way to get there as things stand now (except flying). Hopefully thing improve next year...
EO
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EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
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