Flying High over Golestan

Hi folks just thought you'd like to see a couple snap shots of the beautiful Afghan countryside. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It is also relative, this is some of the more interesting terrain, better than the sand dunes to the deeper south. Golestan is the bottom of the line for the Mountain chains of Afgahnistan. The foothills. If you followed the moutian line to the North it would eventually take you to the Hindu Kush. If you followed it south it would lead you to desert sands and salt flats, eventually leading to the Iranian Border where another North South mountain chain starts up. Oddly the rivers (Ruds in Pashtu) flowing from the mountians do not flow to the sea. They end up in the salt flats, there are a couple salt lakes there that act as collecting pools. Looks a lot like central Utah.