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Band-e Amir National Park (Persian: بند امیر) is a national park in Afghanistan. It was established on 22 April 2009 as Afghanistan's first national park to promote and protect the natural beauty of a series of intensely blue lakes created by natural dams high in the Hindu Kush.
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Band e Amir covers 230 square miles and is known as Afghanistan's Grand Canyon and is a popular holiday destination for domestic and international tourists alike. The worlds second highest mountain range; the Hindu Kush houses Band e Amir 3000m up in it's foothills.
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Band-e Amir National Park is the first national park of Afghanistan. It is a stunning group of turquoise lakes in Yakawlang district. You can camp. You can picnic. You can even rent swan-shaped paddle boats to navigate one of six deep blue lakes that shimmer high in the Hindu Kush mountains, amid picturesque red-hued cliffs and rocky natural dams.
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Band-e-Amir, a collection of six sapphire-blue lakes, was named as Afghanistan's first national park in April 2009 - 36 years after a previous attempt to do so was interrupted by political.
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Band-e-Amir National Park is located in central Afghanistan's Bamiyan province, an area of the country that attracted worldwide recognition and international condemnation when the Taliban.
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Band-E-Amir is a naturally created group of lakes with special geological formations and structure, as well as natural and unique beauty. Depth is not known, the color is pure blue. It has historical and natural background which has not been disturbed until now.
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Whatever the story of their origins, Band-e Amir's lakes have been popular ever since. In recent decades, their shores have been frequented both by locals and by wandering foreigners smoking their way along the Hippie Trail in the 60s and 70s. The first attempt to declare the lakes a national park was in 1973, but the effort stalled in the.
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Band-e-Amir Lake Kara, the largest of six lakes. Photograph by Alex Dehgan/WCS; Text by Tetsuhiko Endo Thirty years of intermittent war have taken a toll on just about everything in Afghanistan.
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Band-e Amir is a series of six incredibly deep blue lakes in the heart of the central Afghanistan. The lakes are situated in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, the second highest mountain range in the world, 80 kilometers from the ancient town of Bamiyan, where the Taliban destroyed the world's tallest Buddha statues in 2001.
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With its pristine lakes and limestone cliffs, Band-e-Amir gained national park status in 2009, making it Afghanistan's first national park. [Leslie Knott/Al Jazeera]
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Getty Images Band-e-Amir, seen here in May this year, was Afghanistan's first national park The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan.
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In a landmark event for Afghanistan, four women were recently hired as park rangers in the country's Band-e-Amir National Park - the first female park rangers ever employed in the nation..
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The lakes of Band-e Amir are an incredibly stunning sight. Six deep blue lakes suddenly appear like sparkling jewels in the middle of the barren grey wasteland of Central Afghanistan that.
The Deep Blue Lakes of BandeAmir, Afghanistan Amusing
Band-e Amir National Park ( Persian: بند امیر) is a national park in Afghanistan. It was established on 22 April 2009 as Afghanistan's first national park to promote and protect the natural beauty of a series of intensely blue lakes created by natural dams high in the Hindu Kush.
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Band-e-Amir is a chain of six lakes in the mountainous desert of central Afghanistan. The lakes formed from mineral-rich water that seeped out of faults and cracks in the rocky landscape. Over time, the water deposited layers of hardened mineral (travertine) that built up into walls that now contain the water.