To go with story 'Afghanistan-unrest-tourism,FOCUS' by Anne Chaon This photograph received from Irish tourist Jonny Blair on August 6, 2016 shows Jonny Blair (CR) drinking tea and smoking shisha with three Afghan companions in Mazar-i-Sharif during his travels in Afghanistan. - AFP.
KABUL: Thousands of people are fleeing the conflict roiling Afghanistan, but American backpacker John Milton recently made the reverse journey to the war-ravaged country -- for a holiday.
Armed with little more than travel guidebooks and an unflagging spirit of adventure, hardy bands of “war tourists” such as Milton visit Afghanistan’s pristine mountains and medieval ruins every year, ignoring warnings of kidnappings and bombings.
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