Getting there & away
Kam Air (040 228951; Park-e Gulha) flies daily to Kabul (3250Afg, one hour), and every Monday and Thursday to Mazar-e Sharif (2500Afg, 50 minutes). Ariana Afghan Airlines (040 222315; Park-e Gulha) also has a daily service to Kabul (3200Afg).
At the bottom of Sarakh-e Shahzada, there are large buses to Kabul (600Afg, one day), which continue onto Mazar-e Sharif (1000Afg, two days). Note, however, that these travel to the extremely dangerous southern highway through Kandahar and cannot be recommended. In the same area you’ll also find transport offices with buses to Iran, with daily departures to Mashhad (270Afg, seven hours) and Tehran (700Afg, two days).
Transport to Maimana is found 3km west of Herat’s centre on Sarakh-e Fargha. HiAces leave daily at around 4am (1100Afg, two days). For more on this route, see right.
Minibuses to Obey (80Afg, two hours), Chist-e Sharif (180Afg, four hours) and Chaghcheran (800Afg, 1½ days) leave from the bus station 3km south of Herat on the road to the airport. This is also the general transport depot for HiAces to most other destinations from Herat.
Transport for Torghundi on the Turkmenistan border leaves on an ad hoc basis from the same area as the Mashhad buses.
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