• This is a 4-hour beautiful drive, traveling through the fascinating Hajigak Pass (3700 m: 12,140 ft.), with stops at picturesque rest areas to refresh and take unforgettable photos
• Registration with the Provincial Afghan Tour Department
• Visiting the ruins of 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 ruins of Zuhak City (The 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
• Lamb Roosh, one of the best local meals will be served
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Accommodation: Royal Hotel

• Hiking and sightseeing around Band-e-Amir Blue Lakes. Altitude: 2916 m: 9567 ft. There are five lakes in all. The largest lake, Band-e-Zulfiqar is four miles long and…
• Visiting the people who live in caves
• You can be hosted by a local family for lunch if you tip them
• Quruti, one of the most popular local meals in Bamyan will be served
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Accommodation: Royal Hotel

• After breakfast, we drop you at the Mazar airport for your flight back to Kabul
• 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, founder of the Moghul dynasty of India. A son, Mirza Hindal, and a a grandson, Mohammad Hakim Mirza, lie beside him. A daughter, Nawab Gawhar Nisa Begum, lies to the west of the emperor: a grand-daughter, Roqia Sultan Begum, daughter of Mirza Hindal, lies on the upper terrace.
• A visit to the ancient citadel and walls of Kabul. The ancient walls of Kabul are generally assigned to the turbulent Hephthalite period during the 5th century A.D.). These walls (7 m: 23 ft. hight and 3.7 m: 12ft. thick, with strategically positioned sentry towers) begin at Kabul’s Bala Hissar.
• A visit to Kabul’s Bala Hissar or high Fort (rising 150 feet above the plain), witnessed most of the exciting vents of Afghanistan history up until the spring of 1880.  Babur, founder of the Mogul Empire of India, lived here early in the 16th century.  Succeeding kings alternately ruled from it or languished in its dungeons.
• To the south and south-east of the Bala Hissar there is a valley where numerous evidences of Buddhism and Hinduism dating from the Kushano-Sasanian period (3rd-4th centuries A.D.) were found.
• You will see the large public cemetery of Kabul spreads out below the Bala Hissar, called Shohada-e-Salehin, in memory of the first Islamic missionaries to Kabul who, according to legend, were killed here by the Hindu Shahi rulers then (644 A.D.).
• And a drive around Chaman-e-Houzouri lies at the foot of Tapa Maranjan. This open field was a golf course during the reign of Amir Habibullah (1901-1919).
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• Accommodation: Khyber Hotel

• Touring 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.
• A visit to Ziarat-e-Sakhi or Sakhi Shrine. This is a beautiful and important shrine of Kabul where the Cloak of the Prophet was kept for a few days as it was conveyed from Badakhshan to Kandahar during the reign of Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747-1772)
• Brdakfast and lunch

Finally, after a 5-day trip to Afghanistan 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.