Band Amir The National Park Of AFGHANISTAN

Band Amir

Band-e Amir is a misnomer. The Band-e-Amir Dragons cricket squad may be found there. See Band-e Amir, Iran for locations in Iran (disambiguation).
National Park of Band-e Amir
Afghanistan's Grand Canyon (national park) is an IUCN category II.
Location of Band-e Amir National Park: Afghanistan, Bamyan Province Nearest City: Yakawlang, Bamyan
34°50′23′′N and 67°13′51′′EC
Area: 61,330 ha Coordinates: 34°50′23′′N 67°13′51′′E Year of Establishment: 2009

Persian for "Band-e Amir National Park" On April 22, 2009, Afghanistan declared its first national park to preserve and promote the aesthetic value of a chain of brilliantly blue lakes formed by natural dams high in the Hindu Kush. In the rugged desert of central Afghanistan, there is a series of six lakes called Band-e-Amir. Mineral-rich water that seeped through fractures and crevices in the stony terrain eventually produced the lakes. With time,
 

Band Amir view

 

 

Band-e-Amir National Park 

 You could camp. Enjoy a picnic. One of the six deep blue lakes that glisten high in the Hindu Kush mountains, amidst stunning red-hued cliffs and stony natural dams, can even be navigated by renting swan-shaped paddle boats.
Until you realise that Band-e Amir National Park is located in Afghanistan, a country that is still firmly under "do not travel" advice from the United States and other nations, it seems like an exquisite vacation spot.
In the expectation that it would provide residents with a break from the unrest that has wracked their nation, Afghanistan officially declared the roughly 600 square kilometre section of central Bamiyan province as a national park almost ten years ago.
So, how did it go? Or, as with many aspirations for the Afghan people

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Experience of Visitors

 According to Afghan senator Prince Mostapha Zaher, the last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zaher Shah's grandson, "I have visited Band-e-Amir National Park 28 times over the previous 15 years and I have not heard a single shot being fired."
This is not to say there aren't any security hazards present.
As the nation's first director-general of the National Environmental Protection Agency of Afghanistan, Prince Zaher referred to the park as "poetry for the eyes, poetry for the soul, and poetry for existence."
According to James Willcox, owner of the UK-based travel firm Untamed Borders, which frequently leads English-speaking excursions to the nation, "Band-e-Amir is in a part of Bamiyan province that hasn't witnessed any insurgency attacks since the international community has been there during the last 17 years."