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A list of all our featured airports in Afghanistan can be found below, together with an overview of how to find cheap flights to Afghanistan.

Featured Cities in Afghanistan:

Kabul

Flights to Afghanistan - Overview

Dubai-based Safi Airways had planned to launch direct flights to Afghanistan's capital Kabul from both London Heathrow and Birmingham, but these routes never got off the ground.

It is now understood that Safi Airways will launch flights from London Gatwick to Kabul, although no further information about a start date or booking details is currently available.

It is not possible to book flights to Afghanistan via the main online operators such as Expedia or Ebookers, due to the ongoing instability in the country.

We hope that you have found this information about flights to Afghanistan useful.

Mini guide to Afghanistan

Trying to write a travel guide to Afghanistan in the first decade of the twenty-first century is somewhat like trying to write a travel guide to Neptune or Mars. The landscape of the Afghan nation has been altered irreparably by the invasion by US-led forces in the wake of September 11, 2001. Still, it may ever have been thus. Even back in 1972, Nancy Hatch Dupree was writing in her A Historical Guide to Kabul: “This has been a frustrating time to attempt a guide to Kabul. Many are the paragraphs that have been written only to be deleted because of the sudden disappearance of the subject.” (And this was before the Soviet-backed invasion of Afghanistan in the early 1980s.)

Kabul, the capital city, formed an essential stop-off on the hippy trail towards enlightenment in the late 1960s. With peaceful dreams long since shattered, it is today a schizophrenic city: new buildings in the city centre, promising signs of post-invasion reconstruction, give way to rubble and ruins on the outskirts. Yet there are occasional outbreaks of tranquillity. Many mosques and mausoleums of interest remain standing, as do the lush Gardens of Babar, and - not a little ironically, given the strong British military presence in the region - the European Cemetery, established in the 1870s, provides further evidence of just how contested this land has been over the centuries.

Outside of the capital, the country’s second city Kandahar - formerly a key Taliban base - remains a high security risk. To the north lie the stunning vistas of the Hindu Kush; it was here, at Bamiyan, that the Giant Buddhas - vast, man-made sculptures depicting the rotund religious deities - sat watching over their creators, until they were desecrated by the Taliban in 2001. Wherever one ventures, women are advised to dress conservatively, and travellers of both sexes would do well to have prior knowledge of local customs. There remains hope that, one day, a fuller and more welcoming guide to Afghanistan may be written; for the present time, the most sensible advice would be to tread carefully.

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Flights to Afghanistan - Overview

Mini guide to Afghanistan

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