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Place in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan

# Do Ab

Do Ab is a village in Bamiyan Province in central Afghanistan.

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## Every way there

- Kabul → Do Ab Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kabul-to-do-ab) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kabul&to=Do+Ab)
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- Kandahar → Do Ab Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kandahar-to-do-ab) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kandahar&to=Do+Ab)

The field note

What is in and around Do Ab, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Do Ab has

- No Scheduled flights nearest airport KBL is 157 km away as the crow flies
- No Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- No Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Yes Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- No Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- No Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Yes: you can plan it here today · Not yet: we know a source but do not plan with it yet · No: no source we know of. Nearest place with more: Bāmyān, 61 km.

35.366°, 67.798°

It is located in a pass in a mountainous region North East of Barmiyan town on the Ghandak highway 10 km from the border with Baghlan Province. It has a bazaar, a coal weigh station built in 2007 and a police check point. Do Abe is the centre of a coal mining industry that employed manual methods to extract coal from shafts in sacks. Coal seams visible on the surface are followed deep underground. The shaft roof is unsupported so accidents are common. From 2009/10 a contract was to be let to a Chinese coal mining group to extract the coal using mechanized equipment. Prior to the establishment of the weigh station coal smuggling across the border into Baghan province was rife.

Kiwi 5 patrol of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team spent time in Do Abe in 2008 training the ANP in order to stop coal smuggling. This area is subject to attacks by roadside bombs.

It was near Do Ab, close to the Ish Pesta ANP check point that a New Zealand soldier was later killed in a roadside bomb blast. After the IED exploded the 3 vehicles were attacked by RPGs and automatic gun fire. This led to a combined NZ/US attack on the Taliban group responsible that resulted in 13 terrorists being killed.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Ab%2C_Bamiyan), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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