Travel in to Afganistan?
Hi guys,
We are currently planning for a UK to Siberia trip in the 2013 summer and have found this site to be a wealth of useful information!
The plan is to travel from Turkey through Iran to the Stans but from reading books and hearing travel stories from the '70s I would love to cross in to Afganistan at some point. The best route would be to cross the Iranian border to Herat and then follow the "highway" to Mazari before crossing in to either Uzbekistan or Tajikistan. While there are accounts of people doing this route, the consensus on the Lonely Planet forum is that it is unsafe(!) as it travels through tribal areas. This leaves us with the option of going Iran-Herat-Turkmenistan or Uzbekistan-Mazari-Tajikistan.
Is there anyone on the forum who has traveled one of these routes or knows the area?
Cheers,
Ben
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