This is an 8-day tour to Minaret of Jam, including Kabul-Bamyan & Band e Amir National Park.
This tour package is available as a private tour as well as a group tour.
If this package does not match your interests, please contact us. We will be happy to design a custom itinerary tailored to your preferences, travel style, and schedule.
Pick up by the tour guide and driver. Hotel check-in and a short briefing of the tour by the guide. Breakfast or lunch if needed.
Money exchange and going to a tailor shop for the local outfit/shirt.
Touring Kabul depending on what time remains: First of all, we will take you to BiBi Mahroo hill (the big flag) to have a bird’s eye view of Kabul city.
Visiting the oldest market, Mandawi bazaar and the Bird market. Walking around Pul-e-Khishti Mosque (1793-1800), Nadir Pushtun Wat, Chahar Chatta bazaar and Pul-e-Bagh-e-Omumi to catch the atmosphere of Kabul, meeting people and their daily life and culture.
Visiting Shah-Do-Shamshira Mosque (1544) relates to an early legend concerning the arrival of Islam in Kabul.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Kabul
This is a 4-hour beautiful drive, traveling through the fascinating Hajigak Pass (3700 m: 12,140 ft.), with stops at picturesque rest areas.
Registration with the Provincial Afghan Tour department.
Visiting the UNISCO Heritage Sites, the ruins of the Buddha Statues (once tallest standing Buddhas in the world), the Large Buddha, 55 m: 180 ft high (late 5th to the early 7th centuries A.D.). The Small Buddha, 38 m: 125 feet high (the 3rd or very early 4th centuries A.D.). Both were demolished by the Taliban in 2001.
Visiting the ruins of Gholghula City (The City of Screams), one of the eight UNISCO Heritage Sites in Bamyan. Build by Ghaznavids (977-1186) and demolished by Genghis Khan in 1221.
A visit to the another UNISCO Heritage Sites, the ruins of Zuhak City (Red City). The fortress is believed to have been founded between 500-600 A.D. by the Hephthalites, around the same time as the Buddhas of Bamyan were created and demolished by Genghis Khan in 1221.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Bamyan
A full day hiking and sightseeing around Band-e-Amir Blue Lakes Altitude: 2916 m: 9567 ft. There are five lakes in all.
We will continue our drive to Yakawlang district to make the next day’s drive shorter.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Bamyan
After breakfast, we will set off on a scenic drive towards Firuzkuh, the provincial capital of Ghur province. The journey takes 8 hours, passing through majestic valleys and traditional villages.
Several stops on the way for rest, lunch and photography.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Firuzkuh
We will leave our hotel early for a 5-hour drive to the minaret.
Hiking and sightseeing around the UNISCO Heritage Site, Minaret of Jam: 213 foot: 65 meters. Only the Qutb Minar in Delhi, directly inspired by the Jam minaret, stands higher, at 238 feet. The Minaret of Jam is, therefore, the second highest minaret in the world.
We will come back to Firuzkuh for another 5 hour drive.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Firuzkuh
We will drive back to Bamyan. This is a 10 hour drive.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Bamyan
Back to Kabul overland. 3 hours drive
A visit to the UNISCO Heritage Site, iconic Babur Garden built by the Mughal Emperor Babur Shah (1528 CE). There are a beautiful marble mosque build by the Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan (1646) and the modest tomb of Babur.
A visit to Kabul’s Bala Hissar or high Fort, rising 150 feet above the plain.
A visit to Ziarat-e-Sakhi or Sakhi Shrine built during the reign of Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747-1772).
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Kabul
Visiting more of Kabul depends on what time remains.
We will take you to Chicken Street (antique market). You will find all kinds of handicrafts, Afghan handmade Rugs, gemstones, calligraphy, glass miniatures and oil paintings, antique and ornamental works in Chicken Street.
Breakfast and lunch
Finally, after an 8-day tour to Minaret of Jam, Kabul, Bamyan and Herat with lots of unique experiences and heart touching stories we will drop you at the Kabul airport for your flight back home.
End of the tour.
