Vivid cobalt waters carve through rust-red canyon walls in this striking chrome-era view of Band-e-Amir, Afghanistan's dramatic chain of natural lakes in the Hindu Kush highlands — a landscape so otherworldly it was later designated Afghanistan's first national park in 2009. Photographed by the Kabul Photo House Samad Asefi, this mid-century color postcard captures the surreal mineral blue of the lakes, formed by travertine dams, set against towering ochre cliffs. Issued in the era before decades of conflict would make such tourism imagery tragically rare, this card is both a scenic treasure and a poignant historical document of a peaceful, tourist-visited Afghanistan. The reverse carries bilingual text in English and Dari script.