How to get from Mazar I Sharif to Do Ab Bamiyan

Plan it for your day Do Ab Bamiyan to Mazar I Sharif

Quickest listed: 12h 1m; by car, door to door; trains not read
Lowest listed: $50; by car; trains not read
Distance: 297 km; as the crow flies
Departures: –; timetables not read

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297 km apart. Times are the timetables for Sat 7 Nov, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare.

Trains and buses couldn't be loaded when this page was made, so this is not the full list and none of it is called best, fastest or cheapest. The planner reads the timetables again for your day.

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Before you go

Borders, permits, official travel advice and disaster alerts for the places on this route, as their sources publish them. Entry rules are shown for a passport from Afghanistan; the planner lets you pick yours.

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Travel advice: UK FCDO (Open Government Licence v3.0), US State Department.

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How far is Do Ab Bamiyan from Mazar I Sharif by road?

About 647 km, roughly 12h 1m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around $50–70; tolls and parking are extra.

In Do Ab Bamiyan

Place in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan

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

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