Afghan Royal Palace : Revisited
Sunday, 13th November 2005 by
Remember the Afghan Royal Palace? Well David Quin from Melbourne had seen it from ground level and took photos! He writes:
I was in Kabul in September 2003 working with the UN, writing the software for the voter's registration system used during 2004. Whilst there had a good look around the palace. It had indeed been a magnificent building - but has (as the aerial photo shows) been extensively damaged and looted.
It is in quite a state:
Check out the UXO (UneXploded Ordnance) warnings and the shell half-buried in the ground in the third photo.
Thanks David!
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Cue protracted mud slinging with little understanding of the recent history in Afganistan and overuse of the words ‘stupid’ and “americans’. Your recent Reichstag posting shows that the rebuilding of an important building in a once divided country can achieve much more than good architecture. I wish the reconstruction of this building well and hope it leads to the rebuilding of the country in its wake.
That’s what real estate advertisements call a “handyperson’s special” or “needs TLC” 🙂
Hey, Its sad to see the distruction of such a historic building. IMHO the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan is probably worse. Such a waste and for such stupid reasons. I can only hope that they will one day be rebuilt, but of course it will never quite be the same …
We should get Google to commission a flyby of Kabul and Baghdad like they did for Katrina. Natural disasters aren’t the only shocking disasters there are in the world.
I dont think that the Katrina pictures were taking specialy for google. AFAIK they were taking by the US government, and google just decided to intergrate them into google maps