The Khy­ber Pass cer­tain­ly falls into that wide cat­e­go­ry of places not cur­rent­ly on the menu for the trav­el­er in Afghanistan – since at least 2007, the whole region here has been dom­i­nat­ed by Tal­iban guer­ril­las, with west­ern aid and mil­i­tary con­voys tar­get­ed specif­i­cal­ly.

How­ev­er, once the ten­sions lift and the war sub­sides, this high-perched stretch of land in the heights of the Spin Ghar will cer­tain­ly be worth the vis­it.