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2025
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Discovery.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté.
Petit Futé
Where to stay in : Kaboul ?
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How to get there - Kaboul
Discovery of Kabul
Steps: Kaboul
In the morning, walk on the ramparts of Kabul to admire the view across the city, and descent to the gardens of Babur. Stop picnic. In the afternoon, visit the National Museum and the Darulaman district. Sunset on the hill to kites.
Idyllic landscapes in the vicinity of Istalif
Departure for the Bamiyan Valley
Steps: Bamiyan
Departure by car to Bamiyan if you do not have the possibility to take the plane. You have to leave very early, because a breakdown on the road is always possible. We count 7 hours of driving. Take a lunch break in Goohrband, a small Pashtun village, if the security conditions are sufficient. If you arrive in the afternoon, you should take the opportunity to walk on the heights of Bamiyan. Overnight in one of the hotels in Bamiyan.
Traces of the Buddhas
Steps: Band-E-Amir
Visit, on foot, of the site of the Buddhas; 1 hour 30 will suffice. Then take the car to go to Shar-e-Zohak, the red city, destroyed by Genghis Khan's men during their devastating passage. A 30-minute drive from the centre of Bamiyan. Climb at the top of the old citadel to admire the Bamiyan valley. If you have time, take a tour in the dragons valley, Daria Adjahar, 8 km from Bamiyan on the route of Band-e-Amir. Dinner at Silk Road Restaurant.
Dive into the deep blue of the lakes of Band-e-Amir
Steps: Band-E-Amir
Departure at dawn from Bamiyan to the lakes of Band-e-Amir. It is not possible to sleep there or have lunch there, plan a picnic. In Band-e-Amir, go around the lakes, swim if possible. Return to Bamiyan in the evening. Night in Bamiyan.
Return to Kabul
Craft shopping and dinner at the Taverna of Lebanon to recover from the hours of the road!
Escape in the Panjshir Valley to the mausoleum of Massoud
Start early in the morning from Kabul to the Panjshir Valley. 3 hours of road. Visit of the mausoleum of Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of Afghan resistance against the Soviets. Lunch in a tchaikhana on the river Panjshir. In the afternoon, walking in the small villages hanging over the mountains. Night in Kabul.
