I went on holiday to Afghanistan and it was a 'great experience - the Taliban welcome tourists'

Would you spell connected a tourer travel to Afghanistan? 

No?

Well, you’re missing retired according to intrepid traveller Jannis M, who visited the state this twelvemonth and tells Mailonline Travel that it was a 'great experience’.

The 23-year-old traveller from Germany, who has truthful acold been to 93 countries, says: ‘I loved Afghanistan and felt precise safe. I was treated precise well. Afghan radical are among the astir hospitable radical successful the world. I was greeted truthful galore times and the radical were funny [about] wherever I was from.

‘I was invited into homes, to person meal with locals and to person beverage together. Even the Taliban treated maine precise well. The Taliban privation tourists to come, truthful they guarantee you that you are harmless each the time.’

His connection for radical who don’t deliberation tourists should sojourn Afghanistan is clear. Jannis says: ‘These radical volition ne'er spot the satellite for themselves and ne'er broaden their horizons.

‘I cognize galore radical bash not deliberation that visiting Afghanistan is simply a bully idea, but I tin reassure you that it helps your idiosyncratic improvement and your ain constituent of presumption of definite things. It creates memories you would ne'er make if you enactment home.’

Jannis shared his experiences successful Afghanistan successful videos posted to his TikTok relationship - @jannistravels. In one video, helium films from a vessel connected a water successful Band e Amir National Park, saying: ‘I’ve ne'er successful my beingness seen h2o this blue. It’s truthful bully and the scenery is breathtaking.’ Separately, Jannis tells MailOnline that the lakes were his favourite spot successful Afghanistan, describing them arsenic a ‘dream’.

Jannis besides visited Kabul’s vertebrate market, wherever helium explains in a video that it’s imaginable to ‘buy beauteous overmuch immoderate benignant of vertebrate that you want’, adding that the marketplace is an ‘interesting’ but ‘sad’ spot owed to the creatures being caged.

In Kabul, Jannis adjacent had his photograph taken by 1 of the city’s past nonrecreational box-camera photographers, Haji Mirzaman. Jannis explains connected Instagram: ‘It was an honour to conscionable him and decidedly an absorbing experience.’

The traveller besides journeyed to historical Bamiyan, wherever the 6th-century Buddha statues utilized to basal earlier the Taliban destroyed them successful 2001, describing it arsenic an 'impressive' spot contempt the destruction.

It’s undoubtedly an antithetic prime of vacation destination, truthful what made Jannis privation to question to Afghanistan successful the archetypal place?

He explains to MailOnline: 'I would similar to sojourn each state successful the satellite and arsenic I was travelling to Tajikistan adjacent by, I thought I could harvester the countries successful 1 travel arsenic Afghanistan is conscionable astir the corner. I had heard a batch of things astir Afghanistan and wanted to marque my ain representation of the country.

‘It has an absorbing history, culture, astonishing radical and large nutrient and this is what I wanted to spot and acquisition for myself.’

So, however did helium program his travel to Afghanistan?

Jannis explains: ‘I needed to get a visa. Through a person I knew that determination were possibilities of getting it successful Dubai, Peshawar successful Pakistan oregon astatine the Tajik border, which is what I did. A person of excavation went to Afghanistan with a usher and truthful I asked for his interaction details.’

The adventurer adds that travelling with a usher was the lone other precaution helium took to enactment harmless successful Afghanistan.

But contempt his affirmative experience, Jannis does lone urge Afghanistan arsenic a destination for experienced travellers, explaining that it ‘might beryllium a spot shocking for beginners arsenic immoderate [aspects] similar hygiene are successful mediocre condition'.