Shahr-e Gholghola

Ancient City · Bamyan, Bamyan

The "City of Screams": a fortified hilltop city on the Bamyan valley floor, stormed and annihilated by Genghis Khan's army in 1221 in revenge for the death of his grandson — the name remembers the massacre. Its melted mud-brick towers and walls crown a free-standing hill with the finest panorama in the valley: the Buddha cliff to the north, the Koh-e Baba wall to the south. It is one component of the UNESCO World Heritage serial property of the Bamyan valley, and the classic sunset ending to any Bamiyan day.

Hilltop south-east of Bamyan bazaar, Bamyan, Bamyan, Afghanistan

Informal daylight access; a keeper attends the base gate some days. Sunset visiting is customary and tolerated — descend promptly after. Nothing is published.

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