THE HIDDEN PART OF AFGHANISTAN (Nice People, Fruits & Nature)

good morning it's my second day in kabul got up it's about 7 30 a.m all ready to go and today we're going to go to panjir valley to meet some mujahideen and we're going to go to herat to see remnants of what the jewish community was like and some synagogues etc [Music] so [Music] okay so we're here on the road somewhere outside of kabul and i met my new friend majid and and his father hi and um they're really nice people they offered me afghan tea they offered fruits they don't want money they're just hospitality very nice people here in afghanistan thank you and thank you thank you so much it's so beautiful you guys are from afghanistan but just there's so much love here in this end thank you i really see that it's possible that people can get along thank you so much thank you oh thank you so much that's really kind of you thank you it really uh warmed my heart people are so so friendly so nice so special i'm really i'm really inspired by you guys thank you thank you so much is so nice he's cutting up a melon oh thank you thank you you know because he is having the now his new friend and he come in there afghanistan my kids but i'm so sorry my english is not very well your english is perfect i'm i want to talk which one is that you like it my shop is screwed that you like it i hear my gate the money is not a problem i'm meeting this delicious melon madre and his father hi they're very kind and they're i'm their guest today hospitality is amazing and we're eating melon here on the side of the road near kabul thank you so much everybody thank you thank you thank you afghanistan is unbelievable the best people we then headed to the panjir valley which houses the panjir river and is considered to be one of the most militarily strategic areas in afghanistan due to its rough terrain and the surrounding mountains in the 1980s and 90s a commander named ahmed shah masood and his fighters located in the pangaea valley were successfully able to fight off the soviets and then the taliban in late 2001 masood was assassinated by al-qaeda terrorists only two days before the september 11th attacks he was later named afghanistan's national hero we were now on the way to meet some of masood's men who are known as the mujahideen of the northern alliance who successfully fought off the invading soviets and the taliban [Music] do [Music] valley where pretty much everybody over the age of 40 or 50 is a jahidi i'm saying it right it's a hard word to say for americans and uh hopefully we're gonna go meet some people now who fought against the russians and against the taliban so i'm here in panjir and we are with some wonderful people uh mujahideen who have fought against the the russians and against the taliban these are people who fight for freedom and make sure that when their rights are infringed in their country that uh their rights get restored so i really appreciate what all these people have done and uh thank you all thank you okay so we are approaching the mausoleum the tomb of uh masood who was one of the leaders of the northern alliance fought against the russians and the taliban there he is aside from the beautiful scenery there were also a few old soviet tanks on display from when the soviets tried unsuccessfully to conquer the pangaea valley it's such a beautiful area the nature is unbelievable here untouched pure god bless afghanistan it's really really like you know you grow up with so many stereotypes and things that you've heard in the media and then just come here and you see that most of what you've seen is not not correct really beautiful country beautiful people beautiful hospitality my mind is blown we then got back into our car and rushed to kabul airport because we had a flight to catch but i'll tell you all about that in the next episode [Music] you