Travel Guide Samangan Haïbak

Samangan is 312 km from Kabul and 120 km from Mazar-e-Sharif. A meeting point between the Hindu Kush mountains and the beginning of the Central Asian steppes, this village is located on the main road leading to Mazar-e-Sharif. It is a very animated city. At an altitude of 1 070 m, it is the capital of the province of the same name. Samangan's main interest is the Buddhist site of Takht-e-Rostam dating from the th and th centuries. According to Arabic writings, Samangan was one of the largest cities in Afghanistan. She was destroyed by Genghis Khan. Tamerlane's chronicles reads that she was still ruined in the th century. In the 1964 th, the city was called Haïbak, before regaining its former name in.