Afghanistan

Did you know?

• 🥇Band-e Amir, Afghanistan's first national park, is a chain of six deep-blue lakes held back by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush.
• 🏆Buzkashi — a horseback game where riders fight to drag a goat carcass into a goal — is the national sport.
• ✨Bamiyan Buddhas, two giant 6th-century statues, were destroyed in 2001 and outlines still mark the cliffs.
• ✨Afghanistan produces the majority of the world's lapis lazuli — mined here for over 6,000 years.
• ✨The Wakhan Corridor was created as a thin buffer between the British and Russian empires.