In the mid-20s of the 20th cen­tu­ry, on the out­skirts of Kab­ul, Ger­man archi­tects built a palace for the roy­al fam­i­ly …

The cul­tur­al land­scape and archae­o­log­i­cal remains of the Bamiyan Val­ley rep­re­sent the artis­tic and reli­gious devel­opm…

The Khy­ber Pass cer­tain­ly falls into that wide cat­e­go­ry of places not cur­rent­ly on the menu for the trav­el­er in Afgha…

The breath­tak­ing reach­es of the Band‑e Amir became home to the first ever nation­al park in Afghanistan back in 2009. …

While the town of Saman­gan is an ancient car­a­van stop on the periph­ery routes of the old Silk Road, that claim to fam…

It’s easy to see why Her­at – the third-largest city in Afghanistan – has such a Per­sian fla­vor to it: the town sits j…

Hailed as the epi­cen­ter of the Bac­tri­an Empire of old, the aged town of Balkh has a his­to­ry going back almost 4,000 y…

The 65m-tall Minaret of Jam is a grace­ful, soar­ing struc­ture, dat­ing back to the 12th cen­tu­ry. Cov­ered in elab­o­rate b…

Area: 1218,86 sq. km., vol­ume: 24174,9 cubic meters, depth avg: 19,799999 m, shore length: 534,51001 m, res time: ‑1,…

Area: 488,53 sq. km., vol­ume: 1463,63 cubic meters, depth avg: 3 m, shore length: 244,73 m, res time: 538, ele­va­tion:…