Best Afghan Bamiyan Buddhas, Kabul, Band-e-Amir, Blue Mosque Mazar-i-Sharif and Afghanistan Deep Silk Road Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Afghanistan travel | Asia destinations Best Afghan Bamiyan Buddhas, Kabul, Band-e-Amir, Blue Mosque Mazar-i-Sharif and Afghanistan Deep Silk Road Heritage Tour Destinations (UNESCO 2002, 2003, both in-danger) TL;DR Afghanistan is the country that the modern travel industry forgot, although the geography itself did not move. The Hindu Kush still rises to 7,492 m at Noshaq, the Wakhan Corridor still threads east toward Tajikistan and China at 4,300 m, and the Silk Road caravans that once carried lapis lazuli west and Buddhism east still leave their footprint in stone. I am writing this guide as a research notebook for a possible future, not a packing list for next month. As of May 2026 the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban government, reinstalled 15 August 2021) controls the country, all Western embassies are shuttered or operating from Doha, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the United States State Department, Australia DFAT, ...