ZIARAT KHWAJA ABDUL RAHMAN (Cave at)

قلعه نو (ولسوالی قلعه نو - AF)
34.950000,63.116700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An allegedly large cave, which, starting with an cave entrance obliterated by collapse, offers not much of enterable subterranean space except two or three metres of belly-crawl sized passage (note 1). SITUATION: In the Ziarat Khwaja Abdul Rahman (note 2) near a place called Haji Samad (note 3), which lies at a (travelling?) distance of about 5 km along the Tagab Baghak (note 4) and arrives from south to Qalay-i-Naw (note 5). The (sacred?) cave lies about 15 m above the riverbed in a colline d'argile (hill of mud) on the right bank of a stream, which, transcribed into French, was called Tagao- Borough (Tagab Baghak?) and close to it's source. Is this the –>Kala Nao Cave noted on 30th November 1933 by BYRON (1937 edited 1950: 112-113)?An allegedly large cave, which, starting with an cave entrance obliterated by collapse, offers not much of enterable subterranean space except two or three metres of belly-crawl sized passage (note 1). SITUATION: In the Ziarat Khwaja Abdul Rahman (note 2) near a place called Haji Samad (note 3), which lies at a (travelling?) distance of about 5 km along the Tagab Baghak (note 4) and arrives from south to Qalay-i-Naw (note 5). The (sacred?) cave lies about 15 m above the riverbed in a colline d'argile (hill of mud) on the right bank of a stream, which, transcribed into French, was called Tagao- Borough (Tagab Baghak?) and close to it's source. Is this the –>Kala Nao Cave noted on 30th November 1933 by BYRON (1937 edited 1950: 112-113)?

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

History

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1957.10.24: Knut LINDBERG (1958: 123) visited and tried to explore. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
2.0KALA NAO CAVES (Byron 1933.11.30)
23.5ZOGHAL, Haman (Ma'dan)
32.0CHEHEL DOKHTARAN, Qadis 1 (Cave of the)
32.0QADIS VIEW CAVES, Mourehzar
32.0CHEHEL DOKHTARAN, Qadis, 2nd (Cave of the)
38.1DARRAH-i- BUM (Cave at)
58.6BALA MURGHAB (Lindberg 1949) (Caves at)
64.2BALA MURGHAB (Simpson 1886), 2nd (Caves at)
64.2Bala Murghab (Caves at)