By Ivan Watson CNN
Thursday is “Chinese night” at the Hotel Silk Road in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province.
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“The natural resources and cultural resources here are probably the single best place for economic development to happen, around revitalizing the tourism industry here,” says Bob Thelen, the representative for the Aga Khan Development Network in Bamiyan. The nonprofit organization has been working with the government of New Zealand to distribute $1.2 million over a three-year period to develop eco-tourism as an industry in Bamiyan.
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