Qal‘ah-ye Malik ‘Abd ul Rūf

Places of Interest

Hotel InterContinental Kabul

Hotel

Photo: Casimiri, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Intercontinental Hotel Kabul is one of the five-star hotels in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is located on a hill near the Bagh-e Bala Palace in the Karte Parwan neighborhood of the city.

Bagh-e Bala Palace

Building

Photo: Masoud Akbari, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Bagh-e Bala Palace is a former royal palace near the famous Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. It sits on a hilltop in the Bagh-e Bala park near the Karte Parwan neighborhood. The palace has a large pool and is surrounded by pine trees.

Kabul City Centre

Shopping center

Photo: Jim Kelly, CC BY 2.0.

Kabul City Center is a shopping mall in Shahr-e Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan. Opened in 2005, it consists of 100 stores and a food court. It is equipped with see-through elevators and escalators and is notable for being the first building in Kabul to be equipped with functional escalators. Kabul City Centre is situated 4 km southeast of Qal‘ah-ye Malik ‘Abd ul Rūf.

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Kabul

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Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. A crowded metropolis pressed into a basin of the Hindu Kush mountains, its bazaars, battle-scarred buildings and traffic-choked streets bear the traces of an ancient trading city, rapid urban expansion, periods of cosmopolitan ambition, and nearly half a century of war.

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