Darulaman
Darulaman is a locality on the south-western fringes of Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 6.
Darulaman is a locality on the south-western fringes of Kabul, Afghanistan, forming part of District 6. The suburb was a planned city built in the 1920s during the reign of Amanullah Khan. Amanullah sought to turn Darulaman into a new modern capital city, and hired German companies and engineers to build roads, bridges and other infrastructure. The construction of the suburb amounted to an estimated cost of ten million rupees, which was a third of the state's annual income at the time. Thus, Darulaman and other ambitious projects were crucial factors behind Amanullah's tax reforms to increase revenues.
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Worth seeing in and around Darulaman
6 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.
- 01National Museum of Afghanistan
The National Museum of Afghanistan is located across the small street from the Darul Aman Palace in the Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan. It was once considered to be one of the world's finest museums.
300 m · museum · Wikipedia - 02Tajbeg Palace
Tajbeg Palace, also called the Queen's Palace, during the rule of the Kingdom of Afghanistan is one of the palaces in the popular Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan. The stately mansion is located about 16 km southwest from the city's center.
1.4 km · palace in Kabul, Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 03American University of Afghanistan
The American University of Afghanistan is an online private university. After the fall of Kabul in 2021, many former students of AUAF live abroad and transitioned to online teaching.
1.3 km · private university in Kabul, Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 04Chihil Sutun
Chihil Sutun, also spelled as Chehel Sutoon, Chelsutoon, Chehelseton or Chihilsitoon, is a historic palace with gardens in Kabul, Afghanistan. The 30-hectare park is fully walled and located in the city's historical Chihilsitoon neighborhood, about 3.6.km east of the Darulaman neighborhood.
3.2 km · palace in Kabul, Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 05Amir Khusrou Balkhi Library
The Amir Khusrou Balkhi Library is a library in Afghanistan. In the 1990s, it held about 20,000 books, journals, newspapers and rare books.
3.4 km · Library in Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 06Kabul Library
Kabul Library is one of Afghanistan's oldest and largest libraries, located in the capital Kabul. It includes books in many languages and topics including a vast majority in Persian/Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Russian, and Arabic.
600 m · library · Wikipedia
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Getting to Darulaman
- Airports
- Kabul (KBL), 14 km · Bacha Khan (PEW), 227 km
- Mazar-i-Sharif → DarulamanTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Kandahar → DarulamanTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Guzara → DarulamanTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Darulaman
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 Darulaman. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCoaches from reputable companies are reasonably modern and comfortable, although rather slow compared to shared taxis.
- Get inMinibuses and shared taxis arrive and depart from six official locations around the city.
- Get inShared taxis and most minibuses leave when full rather than on fixed schedules.
- Get inShared taxis have no particular appearance of their own – they look the same as city taxis (i.e.
- Get inIf you'd prefer this, try to discern the going per-seat rate for shared taxis to your destination, multiply it by the number of seats, and then negotiate a discount.
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Next door to Darulaman
Darulaman is 9 km from Kabul, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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