Afghanistan's national game, buzkashi, is the world's wildest game, it involves riders on horseback competing to grab a beheaded goat, and gallop clear of the others to drop it in a chalked circle. Women are not allowed to play this game.

Afghans celebrate their new year, Nawroz, on 21 March, the first day of spring. Thousands travel to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif to welcome in Nawroz, a pre-Islamic festival. Local strong men raise a great Janda, an Islamic banner, to herald the beginning of spring and the start of the new year.

Alexander the Great was the first to build Herat's ancient citadel when he captured the city in 330BC. The only woman to capture the heart of the Macedonian empire builder was the beautiful Roxanne, from the northern Afghan province of Balkh. She bore him his only son before Alexander died at the young age of 33.

The Arg (meaning "citadel") serves as the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. It sits on a 34-hectare (83-acre) site.

Alexander the Great was the first to build Herat's ancient citadel when he captured the city in 330BC. The only woman to capture the heart of the Macedonian empire builder was the beautiful Roxanne, from the northern Afghan province of Balkh. She bore him his only son before Alexander died at the young age of 33.

Ahmad Shah Durrani established modern Afghanistan. His son Timur Shah Durrani, after inheriting power, transferred the capital of Afghanistan from Kandahar to Kabul in 1776, and used Peshawar in what is today Pakistan as the winter capital. Kabul's first visitor from Europe, George Forster, described 18th-century Kabul as "the best and cleanest city in Asia"

Mazar-i Sharif (meaning “tomb of the saint”) is Afghanistan's fourth largest city (after Kabul, Kandahar and Herat). The city is home to the famous Hazrat Ali Mazar, also known as 'Blue Mosque'. Sunni Muslims believe it to be the tomb of the caliph ʿAlī, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.

Kabul is one of three national capitals in the world to be on the bank of a river with the same name (Ottawa and Bogotá are the other two)

Band-e Amir, Afghanistan's first national park, is a series of six deep blue lakes separated by natural dams. They were created by the carbon dioxide rich water oozing out of the faults and fractures to deposit calcium carbonate precipitate in the form of travertine walls that today store the water of these lakes. Band-e Amir is one of the few rare natural lakes in the world which are created by travertine systems

Gardens of Babur (Bagh-e Babur) is a historic park in Kabul, Afghanistan, and also the final resting-place of the founder of Mughal Empire and first Mughal emperor Babur. The garden is thought to have been developed around 1528 AD when Babur gave orders for the construction of an "avenue garden" in Kabul, described in some detail in his memoirs, the Baburnama.