Herāt
One day in Herāt, Afghanistan
A day through Herāt’s best-known sights that lie close together: Herat Citadel, Herat National Museum and Gawhar Shad Mausoleum. 3 stops, about 1.4 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Herat CitadelCastle · On the map
- Herat National MuseumMuseum · 0.1 km on from Herat Citadel · On the map
- Gawhar Shad MausoleumMonument · 1.3 km on from Herat National Museum · On the map
3 stops, about 1.4 km between them in straight lines.
More for Herāt
- Things to do in Herāt, Afghanistan · 5 places to see, led by Herat Citadel and Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Mausoleum
Photo credits
- Herat Citadel: koldo / Koldo Hormaza, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Gawhar Shad Mausoleum: Sven Dirks, Wien, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.