On The Ground In Afghanistan (Kandahar)

[@AleSalvino]

👋 Have you watched the *first episode* in Kabul? kzbin.info/www/bejne/apbaloOue8xjnbc

[@WITYTRAVELS]

Hope that young man can become a business man and achieve his dreams! Really interesting when you share some of the behind the scenes of filming.

[@AleSalvino]

Hope so, he has the right attitude, energy and time will tell! Thank you guys! 🙏🏼

[@573998]

I used to work in KSA and the Afghans I worked with were always happy and friendly. With all they've been through they somehow have time to smile.

[@AleSalvino]

So true, friendly people indeed!

[@MariaLArias-qg6fz]

Excelente video ! 😊

[@AleSalvino]

Gracias! 🙏

[@essazakho2943]

Wow Thank u very much for showing us the true face of Afghani people. I really love Afghanistan's people, culture and traditions, they are the loveliest and sweetest people ever, I wish one to have a chance to visit there. Again, thanks so much for showing us their kindness, resilience, and peacefull country. Big love and respect from Iraqi Kurdistan.

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you for your kind words, great experience so far and hope in the future I can visit Iraqi Kurdistan! 🙏🏼

[@Letsgoafghanistan]

Thanks dear bro for your kind word, you are always welcome 😊

[@MercyofAllah-l6v]

Welcome brother ❤

[@essazakho2943]

@@Letsgoafghanistan ❤❤

[@essazakho2943]

@@MercyofAllah-l6v ❤❤

[@Aat8974]

Great video as always

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you!

[@marcie6022]

Love watching the calming way you travel. I was wondering and hoping after the first video there would be another.

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you very much! Indeed, there will be at least 2 more videos coming up 🙏🏼

[@stevenwelp7165]

Your personality of being comfortable with and open with people, your courage, and your positivity and hope shine through lighting up your subject matter with humanity, as one of The Human Family.

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you so much for the kind words! 🙏🏼

[@mashdown3]

I just watched all your vids in a single go. I learned much. I thank you. Everywhere you go the normal people themselves are mostly just good folks.

[@AleSalvino]

I appreciate that thank you very much! 🙏🏼

[@philoda07]

Really enjoyed this video! Thanks for sharing your travel stories. You are a model of true humanity :)

[@AleSalvino]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you very much!

[@HarrySingh-xk2qj]

YOU HAVE TO sEE to giant lake in banyan please!!

[@AleSalvino]

Yes, that’s next episode 🙏🏼

[@thevillageboy3667]

Wowww...❤️ Btw welcome to Bangladesh

[@AleSalvino]

Hope I can visit in the future!

[@Beautiful911]

Hey Ale very welcome to Afghanistan enjoy your tour and stay safe.

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you very much!

[@thomaslewandowski2504]

Thanks!

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you very much Tom! 🙏🏼

[@keyboardmouse7699]

I like your positive message at the end 😊 ¡Salud amigo!

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you 🙌 abrazo!

[@KrisKazlauskaite]

The meeting/interview with the Talibans didn’t sound like the comfortable part, but I guess that’s a normal protocol especially when tourists come and you don’t know their intentions. I love seeing these normal people and what they share! Really cool story! 🔔

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you! I also enjoy walking the streets and waiting for some interesting stories to be uncovered. The most interesting really is the daily life from my perspective 🙏🏼

[@tewesk]

The country has just come out of five decades of invasions and conflicts . I believe it is normal to be more vigilant and have many check-points. However, the visitors are always being welcomed and treated with a lot of respect.

[@aegis1321]

this is a very good video

[@Abrpatel]

Very impressive gymnastics skills!

[@AleSalvino]

Haha indeed! 😀

[@stevenwelp7165]

Ale, In 1970 I went overland from USA, Europe, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Herat to Kandahar to Kabul on my way to India.

[@AleSalvino]

Wow, how was it? I can imagine a very different context back then!

[@bertlexington7716]

You are one lucky man to travel like you do. You have seen things most people will never see

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you so much and welcome to the channel! 🙏🏼

[@Afghandurrani1747]

We Know The World Has Become Messed Up But What Can You Say This Is The New Norm We Afghans Are Resilient Because Of The Harsh And Mountainous Environment Plus We Suffered 3 Big Invasions From The 3 Super Powers Of The World in One Century First The British Second The Soviet Union and Lastly The American Invasion Despite All That We Live Happily

[@thomaslewandowski2504]

Great Video, I really enjoyed Them ( I also watched the 1st one) Good stuff Ale, keep them coming..Tom L Buffalo NY USA

[@AleSalvino]

Glad you like them, Tom! Thanks again for watching and more episodes coming up! 🙏🏼

[@tewesk]

Hola hermano, ahora te ves más relajado. Espero que tengas muy buena estancia en el lugar más interesante del país. La gente de Kandhar es muy generosa y bibak. Tenemos un preverbio " quién gobierna a Kandahar gobierno a Afganistán". Me gusta tu estilo de hacer videos, son muy cortitos y aportan lo más importante de la vida cotidiana. Suerte ché.

[@AleSalvino]

Muchas gracias! Si definitivamente va mejorando todo con el pasar de los días y cada vez se pone más interesante 🙂

[@SwiftyTravels]

Such sweet people- I loved the gymnasts😊

[@NoyanaliSadeqi]

I am from Afghanistan,uruzgam

[@MichaelLeBlanc-p4f]

Please what is the recipie for Afgani bread dough .

[@qudratullahnoori5970]

As a citizen of Kandahar city, welcome to Kandahar, Afghanistan.🇦🇫❤

[@AleSalvino]

Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@clavichord]

I am surprised.... do the Taliban really allow/tolerate shrine worship in Kandahar?

[@RRIMu-l2c]

​@clavichord those are for shia so we have shia taliban often don't get involved them and also to avoid cilver war whatsoever it's called lol

[@ahasrapverygoodopeningazer9263]

Nice place Afghanistan Zindabad

[@AleSalvino]

Indeed

[@khanzadran7543]

❤

[@AleSalvino]

🙏🏼

[@ingGS]

Afghan guys are cute.

[@klwthe3rd]

I feel it's necessary to chime in on this particular video. The hat that you wore is called a Topi. It's the signature hat for the Pashtun people. Most of the Pashtun's are located in the southern provinces including Kandahar. You can pretty much spot MOST Pashtun people just from them wearing that hat. The Taliban's signature headwear can be a Topi BUT the REAL HARDCORE fighters/believers wear the BLACK cloth turbin that wraps about their head and it's tail falls down past their shoulders. If you're every walking around in Afghanistan and see someone wearing that type of headwear - be more aware that there is a high likelihood they are part of the Taliban. As you see more you'll get good at spotting them. As a side note - Only Pashtun people can become Taliban fighters from what i understand. If you are Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara decent then you can't be part of that organization. Kandahar is the birthplace and home of the Taliban. That's why it's the most conservative area of all Afghanistan. After 1989, when the Mujihadeen kicked out the Soviets - they fought among themselves due to the power vacuum. It was the Taliban out of Kandahar that rose up and took control of this chaos to bring peace and calm to the country. That is why so many locals love and support them. And now in 2023, they are still doing that after the US expulsion. You don't have to like what they stand for but you really need to RESPECT them for caring about their country and fighting off (3, the British, Soviet and US) foreign occupiers. Lastly, i was dieing to know how you got that interview with the Taliban in Kandahar. You didn't mention how they reach out to you? Did they talk to your fixer first? A more detailed explaination on how that whole episode happened would have been much appreciated.

[@AleSalvino]

Oh wow, thank you so much for sharing all these details and adding more context! On the interview with them, they approached the fixer first, they knew a small group was coming so they wanted to check in and understand more about our intentions, plans, how things are going so far etc. It felt more like a protocol to understand more about people who are visiting (non-locals). In Kabul this obviously didn't happen, only in Kandahar for the reasons you already described (such an important place for them, etc.). I had no issues during that meeting but I must confess I was a bit nervous at the beginning as I didn't know what to expect. But overall it all went fine and I'm now working on the next episode! 🙏🏼

[@iamsaeedsaaqibkhan6312]

There are thousands of Talibs who belong to Tajik,Uzbek and many other ethnicities of Afghanistan. Every Afghan citizen or possibly even a Muslim from any part of the world can join Taliban. I know this because I am an Afghan myself.

[@standardpashto]

Way to alienate Pashtun culture and Pashtun people. The turban is part of Pashtun culture. Pashtuns have been wearing these turbans way before the birth of the Taliban. Wearing these Turbabs doesn't signify any sort of connection with the organization, regardless of what color these are, it simply means that Pashtuns love their culture and are proud of proving their love for their culture to the world. Also, one point you missed is the Taliban were part of the Mujahideen. They rebelled because of the m$$cre of native Pashtun tribes that was carried out by the group (especially by the no-Pashtun members) in the North. Even today, many Oersian people in the North believe that the North belongs to Tajiks and that Pashtuns are settlers there. This whole claim that Pashtuns don't belong to the North is kind of ridiculous considering Padhtuns are ethnic Afghans- the Indigenous Eastern Iranian tribes of the region, whereas Tajiks are a blend of Persians that immigrated from Iran and the non-Persian Eastern Iranian peoples who gave up their languages and culture for political gains. If you want to tell the truth, go all the way and tell the whole truth.

[@tonyg3693]

Gracias, Ale! La belleza geográfica y la historia de éste país es enorme; e incluso el misticismo: ahí nació el genio de Rumi! Por otro lado trato de entender el peso de la religión en la mayoría de éstos países. Aunque creo que la interpretación que hace el movimiento talibán de las escrituras es la más radicalmente literal. Es muy difícil de entender porque occidente está en las antípodas de lo que son las teocracias, y la cultura musulmán actual. Pero hay entre los afganos opiniones diferentes. A nosotros no nos resultaría extraña la condena de la represión a la mujer por parte de algunos afganos y afganas, como ocurre, y sí nos podría resultar extraña, la defensa que hacen algunos mujeres de la actitud del gobierno para con ellas. No sé... Un abrazo grande y toda la fuerza para que la paz se instale definitivamente entre los hermanos afganos!

[@AleSalvino]

Gracias por mirar el video, Tony! Super complicado entender pero creo que tu interpretación puede estar en la dirección correcta, al final yo trato de centrarme en la parte humana de todo esto porque al final todos somos más parecidos de lo que creemos! 🙏🏼