This is a 5-day tour to Kabul, Bamyan and Band e Amir blue lakes, which starts and ends at the Kabul airport.
Available Group Tours To Join:
If none of these dates work for you, you are welcome to book this tour package for your preferred dates. In such cases, we will actively promote the tour to gather more travelers to form a group.
This tour package is also available as a private tour, allowing you to travel on any date of your choice with a personalized experience.
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.
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.
Visiting the Shah-Do-Shamshira Mosque (1544) relates to an early legend concerning the arrival of Islam in Kabul.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Kabul
We will leave Kabul for Mazar e Sharif. This is a 10-hour drive passing through Salang Tunnel (Hindu Kush mountains). Altitude of 3363 m: 11034 ft. and 2,7 km: 1,7 mi. long. Work began in August 1958 and was officially opened in November 1964.
Note: Sometimes in winter, due to heavy snowfall, the Salang pass is closed to traffic for 12 to 24 hours. This doesn’t happen often, but it can occur at any time. Driving in the Hindu Kush during the winter can be risky, exciting and adventurous but if you wish, we can change this drive to a flight.
You will pass through Parwan and Baghlan (Pul-e-Khumri) and Samangan provinces.
Many stops on the way for photography and lunch.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Mazar-e-Sharif
Registration at the Afghan Tour department and city tour.
Visiting the Blue Mosque of Mazar-e-Sharif, built in 1136 by the great Seljuk Sultan, Sanjar. Genghis Khan destroyed it in 1221, The reign of the Timurid Sultan Husain Baiqara rebuilt it in 1481.
Mantu and Ashak, the most popular local meals in Mazar-e-Sharif will be served.
After lunch, we will drive to the Buzkashi gymnasium to visit Buzkashi. Traditionally, buzkashi is played with the headless body of a goat. Today, more often a 30kg (66lb) leather sack stands in for the carcass that riders try to pull from a fray of horses and drop in a “circle of justice” traced on the ground after doing a lap of the arena at full gallop with competitors in hot pursuit.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Mazar-e-Sharif
Back to Kabul by a flight.
You will be driven to meet Haji Mirzaman, the only box camera man in Afghanistan. He will take a photo of you with his old wooden camera. He charges you 30 USD for each photo.
Visiting some of Kabul’s touristic sites.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Overnight: Kabul
We will visit 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.
Finally, after a 5-day tour to Afghanistan with lots of unique experiences and heart touching stories we will drop you at the Kabul airport for your flight back home.
Brdakfast and lunch
End of the tour
