Empty niche in cliffs where the famous carved small Buddha once stood 125 foot high before being destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

Girl that lives in a cave in the cliffs near empty niche where the famous carved small Budda once stood 180 foot high before being destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

Main road in town infront of empty niche in cliffs where the famous carved large Budda once stood 180 foot high before being destroyed by the Taliban in 200

Empty niche in which once stood a 21ft standing Buddha - discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries AD but removed by French a...

Watchtower at ruins which were once the site of a 21ft standing Buddha in a niche discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries A...

Watchtower at ruins once the site of a 21ft standing Buddha in a niche discovered in 1030 and surrounded by caves whose Buddhists paintings thought to date from the 9th and 9th Centuries AD but remov...

Men sit above Bamiyan village as the late afternoon sun glows on mountains near the empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

Late afternoon sun glows on mountains near the empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

View of Bamiyan valley and village showing cliffs with empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

View of Bamiyan valley and village showing cliffs with empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

View of Bamiyan valley showing cliffs with empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

View of Bamiyan valley showing cliffs with empty niche where the famous carved Budda once stood destroyed by the Taliban in 2001