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Bara Bandai

Bara Bandai is a village in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, known as an area crossed by Alexander the Great during his invasion of the subcontinent.

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Bara Bandai is a village in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, known as an area crossed by Alexander the Great during his invasion of the subcontinent.

The people of village Bara Bandai belong to subsection Naikpikhel of Yusufzai the biggest and largest tribe of Pashtun or Pakhtun tribes. It is one of the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) of Pakistan. The village contains a small series of mountains and a forest, residential area starting from meadows of mountainsand merge with river swat on right bank, a village market, vast land for crops, number of canals, and a part of the Swat river. Mountains of the village include Usmani Sar, Kafar Ghat and Najia Top.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bara Bandai

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Swat Museum

    Swat Museum is a museum located in Saidu Sharif, on the road connecting Mingora and Saidu Sharif in the Swat District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

    900 m · museum in Mingora, Pakistan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Jahanzeb College

    Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb College is one of the pioneer institutes of higher education in the Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was founded by the ex-ruler of the Swat State in order to provide education to the population of the region.

    1.4 km · College in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · Wikipedia

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Getting to Bara Bandai

Airports
Bacha Khan (PEW), 115 km · Islamabad (ISB), 142 km · Srinagar (SXR), 239 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bara Bandai

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bara Bandai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Karimabad (Hunza)PK

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    272 km
  2. 02
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    484 km
  3. 03
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    587 km
  4. 04
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    601 km
  5. 05
    KhujandTJ

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    659 km

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Around it

Next door to Bara Bandai

Bara Bandai is 2 km from Mingora, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Swat Districtdistrict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan2.1 km
  • Mingoracity in Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan1.1 km
  • Saidu Sharifcity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan2 km
  • Kanjuvillage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan3.7 km