Wild beauty on the mountain lakes in Afghanistan

The blue lake seemed untouched wilderness, the mountains are being planned as the first national park of Afghanistan, a country which was devastated by war.

Afghanistan signed the decision to establish national parks, called Band-e-Amir on the Earth Day 22 / 4, which includes six lakes located between the mountains with the formation of natural dams.

The park is located in the central highlands of Afghanistan is relatively peaceful, once a tourist attraction before the period of harsh Taliban regime in power (1996-2001).

Mountain lakes located at an altitude of 2900 meters and the Band-e-Amir who has a total area of 600 square kilometers.

Water lakes in the mountains in the park Band-e-Amir is a special blue. 

Area of the lake is situated one of the most peaceful Afghanistan, the country remains full of uncertainties due to raging Taliban remnants.

People living in the park area is cultivated field, at the foot of the mountain snow white.

Park Band-e-Amir is located in the province of Bamiyan, which witnessed the Taliban destroyed two giant Buddha statues carved into a cliff in 2001. 

The rest of the ruins of this work can be a highlight attraction for visitors to national parks of Afghanistan first.

 Where once the giant Buddha statues carved into cliffs so only a large empty cavity mirror into the water.

Yet this is still the place to find many tourists.

Traditional houses of people living in national parks Band-e-Amir. Persuade some 20,000 people living here to support the project is not a simple, inter alia asking them not fishing with explosives form as before.

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