{"book":"adl0957","page":227,"text":"178\n\nPART SEVEN\n\nJourneys Through Afghanistan\n\nRoutes to Afghanistan : There are two important routes\nfor vehicles from the east into Afghanistan : (1) From Peshawar\nto Kabul via the Khyber Pass, and (2) from Chaman to\nKandahar.\n\n(1) From Peshawar to Kabul via Khyber, Jalalabad and\nthe Lataband Pass is a distance of 181 miles. It is the most\ncommonly used route. Under normal conditions, the journey can\neasily be accomplished by car in a day, while by lorry or bus it\nusually takes a day and a half. The halt at night is made at\none of the Rest Houses en route, either at Jalalabad or at Sarobi.\nDuring winter it is better to stay at Jalalabad which has a milder\nclimate, while in summer Sarobi is better.\n\nPeshawar, the first starting point, is a big frontier town,\nlying on the North-Western Railway, at an elevation of 1,170\nfeet above sea-level. Regular Afghan mail buses are available\nfor this journey three times a week. They start early in the\nmorning from the Afghan Buildings (Pashtunkot) in Kissakhani\nBazaar, Peshawar City. It is better to get seats booked a few\ndays in advance to avoid disappointment. Seats can also be\narranged for telegraphically or by sending money orders in\nadvance.\n\nPeshawar to the Afghan Border (distance 34½ miles) : The\nroad is level for the first nine or ten miles. At Jamrud (nine\nmiles from Peshawar) lying at the gate of the time-honoured\nKhyber Pass, the traveller has to stop to comply with the\ncustoms regulations. He has to submit his luggage to a thorough\nscrutiny. Prohibited articles are held up by the authorities. A\ntoll of Re. 1/- per head is charged adults.","chars":1614,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00227.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/227","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/227","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."}}