{"book":"adl0957","page":220,"text":"173\n\nand certified. They should take particular care to state\nexactly the amounts of currency in their possession;\nfalse declaration may lead to heavy penalties.\n(b) Traveller's cheques, letters of credit, etc., in any cur-\nrency and up to any amount.\n\nTravellers leaving Afghanistan may take out :—\n(a) Not more than 500 Afghanis in notes.\n(b) The equivalent of 500 Afghanis in foreign currency,\nunless he produces the required certificate from the\nauthorities concerned. If travellers who are about to\nleave Afganistan have excess amounts of currency or\nare in any doubt as to the amounts they will be al-\nlowed to take with them, they are advised to consult\nD' Afghanistan Bank.\n\nWarning :—In their own interest travellers should make\nsure that they do not arrive at the place of entry or departure\nwith excess currency, since the excess cannot be deposited with\nthe Customs Officer, but will be taken from the traveller and is\nnot likely to be refunded.\n\nWhen to Travel :—Everyone who intends visiting Afghan-\nistan should first seek information as to the best time of the year\nto spend in the country, and what arrangements to make. It\nis rather difficult to say which season to choose. If a stay of\nfive or six months is to be made, June is the best season for the\njourney. If he wants to stay for a month or two, he had better\nvisit the country during autumn, which is the fruit season.\nGenerally speaking, spring, summer, and autumn are the times\nto visit Afghanistan, and it is hard to say which one is the best.\nSpring commences towards the end of March, officially on the\nfirst of Hamal (21st March), but April and even the first few","chars":1644,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00220.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/220","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/220","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}