Dashte Barchi
Dasht-e-Barchi is a neighborhood in the western section of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Dasht-e-Barchi is a neighborhood in the western section of Kabul, Afghanistan. It is within the jurisdiction of Municipal District 13 and has an estimated population of 317,097 people.
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Worth seeing in and around Dashte Barchi
4 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.
3.8 km · museum · Wikipedia - 02American 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.
3.6 km · private university in Kabul, Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 03Amir 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.
1 km · Library in Afghanistan · Wikipedia - 04Kabul 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.
3.5 km · library · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Dashte Barchi
- Airports
- Kabul (KBL), 13 km · Bacha Khan (PEW), 229 km · Mazar-i-Sharif (MZR), 299 km
- Mazar-i-Sharif → Dashte Barchi303 km · quickest by air, 4h 19m · $160–230
- Kandahar → Dashte Barchi449 km · quickest by air, 5h 2m · $190–290
- Guzara → Dashte Barchi648 km · quickest by air, 5h 31m · $230–340
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dashte Barchi
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 Dashte Barchi. 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 Dashte Barchi
Dashte Barchi is 8 km from Kabul, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.