HOTEL, Salang (Grotte de la)

(ولسوالی سالنگ - AF)
35.250000,69.166700
Grottocenter / carte

Location

Above the left bank of Salang river and not far from a -hotel- (tea house? Chaikhana?) near kilometre stone 99.5 on the road from Kabul to Mazar-i Sharif [SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 19, cave plan on page 15]. BTH - 20/07/2024

Description

Brief description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

No locally known name has been identified for a cave cave with an obvious entrance (8 m wide and 4 m high) to a slightly decending 12 m passage with a rapidly lowering cave ceiling.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Spéléologie Afghane 1975.

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1975 August: Montserrat Ubach Tarres and Carmen Tarres mapped (SPELEOLOGIE AFGHANE 1975: 14). Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0P. K. 103.2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0P. K. 102.1, Salang (Grotte du) [doublon possible de #62052, à fusionner]
0.0Canyon 1, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Canyon 2, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Canyon 3, Salang (Grotte du)
0.0Salang (Grotte-résurgence de la)
0.0Jon (Ghar i)
0.6Ab Bar Amara (Ghar)
0.6Kaftar Khana