Chicken Street

A narrow trading street in the Shahr-e Naw district of Kabul, known for shops full of carpets, jewellery and old household goods. The name came from the poultry sellers who stood here in the reign of King Zahir Shah, while the street's fame was made by travellers on the hippie trail of the 1960s and 1970s. The shops keep carpets and flat-woven rugs, copper vessels, horse harness, antique weaponry and jewellery set with lapis lazuli.

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