Trip to hadero lake and sunway lagoon

the weather was hot. I decided to go to a new tourist location as I was in Thatta. this time I decided to go to a famous well known tourist location of thatta known to be hadero lake.it is located about 85 km to the east of Karachi. I went straight to the hadero lake. There were many picnic points near the hadero lake. Most of the families were fishing at the lake. This place was considering to be the Game Sanctuary. This is owned by the government.it is also wetland of the province sindh.49 species are said to be recorded in this location from 1998 to 2001. the temperature in summer is about 47o C and the weather condition in winter is 2.2o C. There were many birds on that spot. I sat near the lake and enjoy the beautiful sunlight.

I also did fishing and enjoyed a lot. afterwards, I decide to move to the next place. One thing I notice was that there were many lakes in the province of Sindh. The staking lake has a land area of 3264.262 acres. Then I decide to go to water park known to be Sunway lagoon.it was the first Sindh water park. I purchased the ticket of 1000 rs. It was a very good park. There were water slides and chairs to sit and enjoy the sunlight. There were small children’s swimming in the water with life jackets. The environment was very clean and it was really crowded with people. It was one of the best water park I have seen in my experience in Pakistan. The weather was hot; he water was cold. I enjoyed a lot in this place. I then had my lunch and was really tired.

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Tript to keenjahar lake

I woke up early in the morning. This time I had plan of going to another city. I searched on the google what should be the next place to go and which city. After searching, I had made a conclusion of going to the city of Thatta.The distance from Karachi to thjatta was about 122 kilo meter away. This city is very antique and was named in the periods of Mughal emperor. Famous temple and mosques are situated in this place. I packed my bag and went to the bus station. After that, there were busses going towards the city of thatta. I sat on the bus and headed straight towards the city thatta. when I reached thatta, it took about 2 hours in travelling. The first location I decided to visit was the keenjahar lake.

 This lake is considered to be the second largest fresh water lake in Pakistan. This is an important source of drinking water for the residence of the people of Karachi and thatta. this also known to be important place for wildlife. It is also best location for the tourist. A large number of people visit this spot from karachi, thatta and Hyderabad. This place is also very famous in the history of Pakistan. Shah Abdul Lateef bhatai mentioned this place in his poetry. There were many picnic points and many families were fishing and some of them were boating. I also enjoyed over thereafter wards, there was a famous hotel named as Noori resturant. I ate fresh fish. The fish was very tasty and delicious. It was getting late at night.so I decided to go back to the hotel and stay for another day in thatta.

Exploring the City of lights

I woke up early in the morning. I decided to go for a walk and have some fresh air in the city Karachi. I enjoyed a lot in my previous days in Karachi as well. Today I made of plan of visiting various tourist place in the city Karachi. At first, I had my breakfast and then I chose my first destination and that was National museum of Pakistan. The museum was established in 1950. The museum has collection of approximately 58,000 old coins. Some old books near around 70000 are preserved in the museum. There is also an auditorium which contains 250 seats.

The building was wonderful. There was a huge park before the museum there were two entrances in the museum one was from starchan road and the other one was from DJ College. I entered the museum and have seen many paintings of the traditions in Pakistan. The first floor contained galleries. The picture of their leader and the pics of all the prime ministers of Pakistan. Under the pictures, history was written on the specific picture. Many antiques products were present in this museum. There were total galleries in the museum. 

There was gallery of Islamic as well. I had very good time in the museum. I decided to move to the next tourist point in Karachi.the next point was the famous place known as chaukhandi tomb. This place was ancient. There were many tombs in that area and was built in the late fifteen and eighteens. There was also one tourist guider in this place telling everybody about the history of the old tombs. I had seen many old stones in that place. There were some old writing written on stones.afterwards, it started raining and then I headed back to the hotel.

                                                             chaukhandi tomb

Beautiful day in Karachi

A beautiful day in Karachi. I woke up early in the morning. Had my breakfast with bread and egg. This was my second day in Karachi exploring the city. This time I decided to visit the famous Karachi zoo. The distance from my hotel to the Karachi zoo was about 30 kilo meter. I reached Karachi zoo. Karachi zoo is considering to be the oldest zoo and is the largest zoo in Pakistan.it is also consider to be Karachi zoological garden. Karachi zoo was established in 1897.

The zoo was very big. There was various animal’s elephant, tiger, king, leopard, fox, giraffe and many more. There were basically 5 attractions places in karachi.at first, I visited the elephant house. A famous known elephant known as anarakali died since 2006.later on the zoo had purchased 2 elephants and they named them Noor jahan and madhu bhala. They were huge and healthy. Then I visited the house of white lions. The white lions were purchased by the Karachi zoo in 2012.They were beautiful and looked very hungry. 

Then I visited the Mughal garden. This was a very famous place in which red roses and flowers were there. The Mughal garden was established on 1970, The lawns were very beautiful. There were Mughal style fountains. inside the Karachi zoo. There was natural history museum. This place was for educational purpose. Students of zoology department were in this department mostly doing research on various things of bones. I was very lucky because just before 2 days ago,2 new bears were purchased by the zoo and was brought in this place. The male was Asian black bear and the female was Syrian brown bear. They were huge and strong. After enjoying in the zoo. I planned to visit the next spot of the tourist point.

 Then I visited my next spot and that was bagh ibne qasim. This place was visited by 10 million people each year. The park has turtle pond, murals of dinosaurs and other antique stones. The famous festival of Sindh always takes place with in this park. The park was full of greenery and all. I enjoyed my stay over here as well. Then I planned to move to the next place next day.

Exploring The City Karachi

Exploring the City Karachi

I finally reached Karachi. I had some rest and after having rest. I decided to explore the city Karachi. At first, I decided to go to the Clifton beach which was the famous beach in Pakistan. It was hot weather in Karachi. So I decided to do and spent my day at Clifton beach. After having breakfast, I went straight to Clifton beach from the hotel.

I reached there and was amazed to see the public spending their time on the beach. There were proper arrangements for sitting near the beach. The chair was placed in the starting point of the beach. People were barefooted and walking on the cold water. Small children’s were having fun and were enjoying a lot. I even had chance to do horse riding. It was really fun. There were also camel riding ride there as well. I did not sit on the camel because I was scared but I had seen many people sitting on the camel and having fun.

People were playing football and some of them were even playing tennis. This was interesting to see. Small children’s were making mud sculpture of sand. I enjoyed a lot in this place.afterwards; I decided to move to the next destination. I decided to go to the historic place in Pakistan. The next destination was Mazar-e-Quaid. This is historic place for the people of Pakistan. It is the resting place of the leader of Pakistan. The museum was completed in 1970 and is one of the famous places in Karachi. On special occasion, Military parades take place especially on 14th august, 11th September. I enjoyed a lot in this place as well. After that I decided to head back straight to the hotel.

Trip to Karachi

The trip was very good of mansehra. I enjoyed a lot in this trip. Especially the weather was very pleasant in this area; I now planned to visit a new city. The name of the city was Karachi.Karachi was located in another province. The name of the province was sindh .Karachi is also considered to be the capital of sindh.

It is the most populous city of Pakistan. The city is considered to be Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial center. The airport of Karachi is also well known to be the busiest airport in Pakistani 2018 the population is approximately about 27 million. There are about 2 million Bangladesh refugees in Karachi, 1 million afghan refugees and 400,000 refuges of Myanmar

Karachi collects about third of tax revenue of Pakistan. Most of the major multinational companies head quarter are being operated in the city of Karachi.Karachi is the second largest Muslim city in the world. Karachi is also known to be city of lights . The literate rate of Karachi is very high as compare to other cities of Pakistan. Karachi is also famous for its beach names as Clifton beach.

This city is also known to be the hub of business. This is also known to be mini Pakistan.I had 3 option. First option was to go by bus .second option was to go by air. Third option was to go by train. This time I decided to go by train. The train departure was from Islamabad. I reached Islamabad and then purchased the ticket of the train. This was a new train launched by the government .This train was consider to be a business class train.

The distance was about 1214 kilo meters to cover from Islamabad to Karachi. The journey was really long .It was going to take 19 hours in order to reach from Islamabad to Lahore. The train departed from the junction about 3.00 pm.The train was very comfortable.

                                                                 Karachi express

A visit to Hazara University

The weather was very cold in manshera.This time I had the chance of visiting the famous and well known university in this area. The name of the university was Hazara University. I planned of going to the university and explore the beauty of the university .This university was founded in 2002.I entered the university .They had issued me a pass at the entrance gate so that I can enter inside.When I entered inside. I had seen many departments.

I planned to choose the department that was relevant to my experience of management. I entered the management department. There were lots of student in the department. I asked them of their universities and education standard of the university. Most of the students had blamed the education system in Pakistan. Most of the time all the students are running after marks. Instead of focusing on education and learning new things. All the focus is diverted on that.

I even had the chance to meet the facility members.One thing that I observed was that most of the faculty members have got their PHD degrees from foreign universities such as France,Candida.I also introduce them about myself. I had cup of tea with the faculty of management. I even showed them the project on which I am working with my current job.

Afterwards, I was really getting hungry. There was huge cafeteria filled with many students. I ate rice with cup of juice. After that, I thought of playing some games with the students of university. They enjoyed a lot playing with me tennis. It was a good and educational experience when visiting the university. Latest information about my research topic was also discussed with the management if the university. They helped me a lot in expanding ideas regarding education.

Exploring the city Mansehra

Exploring the city Mansehra

I woke up early in the morning had breakfast in the hotel. This time the breakfast was different. This time I had halwa and poorie for breakfast. After doing breakfast, I dressed up properly and ready to explore the city mansehra and visit the main tourist points in this area. The first point was heading towards the famous Lake saiful Muluk.One thing that I observed was that in mansehra. There were many lakes.

This lake was also located between the mountains. This is approximately 10.578 feet above the sea level. It is said while in winter. The lake is frozen. It is also famous for its story. The journey towards saiful muluk was also very good. It was located at height so jeeps were there to take to the peak top. I stayed there for a few hours and enjoy the beauty of god. This lake one of the best lake I have ever seen in my life. Afterwards, someone told me to visit the famous kaghan valley.

I headed straight towards the kagan valley. This is consider to be the main tourist point in this area. This is consider to be famous for its places such as lakes, glaciers.There area various tows in kagan valley. One of the town is Naran.Lalazar is also located in this zone. This area if filled with flowers and green meadow. This area was destroyed in devastating earthquake that took place in 2005.The roads and houses were rebuilt again. Pine trees were are also famous in this area. It was wonderful and amazing tour. Fish was also very famous in this area. I ate fish there in the restaurant.

There were many Chinese in this area. I felt good to see people coming from different part of the world to see the beauty of this place.     

                                                             Saif ul Muluk lake

The Journey to Mansehra

The Journey to  Mansehra

I woke up early in the morning. I thanked my friend for his hospitality asked him for the main tourist points in Pakistan. He advised me to visit Mansehra. Mansehra is consider to be the beauty .I packed my bag and headed towards the bus station of chakwal.The journey was really long. I calculated the distance and the distance was about 297 kilo meter. It was going to take about 4 to 5 hours in reaching mansehra.

I sat on the bus and the journey started. The best part was that I had the chance to visit Islamabad again. The route we followed was from Islamabad. Then we went to taxila.afterwards towards wah cant. From that point we moved towards abbottabad and went straight to Manshera.This whole drive was a really long drive. The weather temperament over their was cold as well. The weather was very tropical. While in other regions in Pakistan. The weather was hot.

The journey was comfortable. After reaching manshera.I started to search for hotel to stay in for my tour. One thing that I notice was that the price of the hotel was really costly. I visited almost 20 hotels. And their price was almost same. At last I found a reasonable hotel. After placing my material in the hotel. I searched for restaurant because I was really hungry.They had some type of dish consider being “koftai kabab”.I ordered that and it was really tasty. After wards, I asked the local residents over there to guide me on which places to visit on masnehra.They guided me very well. I have written down their locations that they told me.  

Since I had time .so I thought of visiting the first location in mansehra.The name of the location was Lulusar Lake. It is the main basic location for the tourist. This lake is considered to be one of the biggest lakes in the world. The lake is fully covered with mountains by its side. Specially then the sun is shining bright. Its reflection creates a beautiful image of the scene. I had the chance to sit on the boat and enjoy the ride on the Lulusar Lake. Good memories. It was getting cold and and dark at night. So I decided to move back to the hotel and then go to different locations in mansehra.

visit to various areas of Chakwal

Visit to various areas of Chakwal

We woke up early in the morning .We both had breakfast with perhata and egg. It was very tasty.Afterwards, we said good bye to the village of my friend and headed straight towards kallar kahar.Kallar kahar is a town which is the subdivision of chakwal.This place was very beautiful. There were peacocks over their as well. The people travelling from Islamabad to Lahore are most likely to stay here for enjoying the beautiful view of this area.

We stayed there for a while and enjoyed the beautiful view of god nature. The lake was also just amazing. The best part was that it was really salty. I even had the chance to pedal boat. This is also a very historic place for Pakistan as well. Many of several picnic points was their such as resturants, gift shops and guest houses.

The famous thing of chakwal is raivrie.Raivire was made up of pure desi ghee. It was really sweet. We stayed there for a while and then he showed me one of the famous cement factory in Pakistan.The name of the cement factory was best way cement factory. This factory was really huge. I was really impressed to see this type of factory in Pakistan.there were about more than 1000 employees working in this factory to earn their living.

Then we headed towards the famous salt mine. It was little far from chakwal. We headed to reach their because this was one of the tourist points. This salt mine is the Pakistan largest mine and it is consider to be world’s second largest salt mine. It produces 350,000 tons per Annam.almost, 300,000 tourist visit here every year. The best part when I saw sculpture of various things made up of salt. That was very interesting to see. Even the mosque was built by salt. That was very interesting to see. Patients facing issues of asthma and other respiratory diseases do visit here and get their self sure.It was a really good journey.after wards ,we headed straight to chakwal.

                                                            

  

                                                                  Salt mine

                                         

Exploring district chakwal

Exploring district chakwal

Chakwal is the district of Punjab. It was created district in 1985.It comes in the division of Rawalpindi. There are basic 4 tehsils in Chakwal. My friend first instructed me the tourist points. First of all, we had breakfast with the famous perhatas and egg. It was very delicious. First point we visited dulmial. This was a famous place and historical place for the people of Pakistan. It is also famous in the World War 1 and was awarded with Victoria gun in 1920.It was received by captain gulam Muhammad Malik. I was very glad to know, most of the high rank positions in the army or in any organizations belongs to dhumial. After wards, we visited choa saiden shah.

 This place was also very famous. This was also basically a hilly area. My friend village was also nearby. The name of his village was bashrat. So from choa saiden shah, we were travelling towards basharat on motorbike. The road was not so good at all. Although the landscape and the view was greenery. While we were on the way to village. I had seen many villages. They were also located at high peak. It was just unbelievable seeing houses on the mountains. I was wandering how they actually built it. Anyways, we finally reached basharat. It was a beautiful village. Almost there were about 100 houses in this village.

 The best part all were in somehow relative of Haroon. From far end, Haroon showed me a famous place called chehlam abdaal. Chelam abdaal was located at a very height on the mountain. My friend asked me if he wants to visit that spot. I agreed, me and my friend involving his 3 cousins got ready. We placed our bags in their cousin house and got ready. We packed the food because the journey was 1 hour of hiking and too much walk was also needed. The place was located on top. It took about 1 hour in reaching chehlum abdaal. My legs were hurting because I was not use to hiking. Finally, I reached their, there was a small house located on the top of mountain. According to the belief of the people leaving around that area is that this is the was the house of a spiritual Islamic leader. Anyways, we had out lunch over there.

There was proper place to sit in. In other words, it was considering being a picnic point for the tourist as well. Although, the path through which we cover distance was not safe. We sat there for a while and headed. Afterwards, it was getting dark and the place was not so good to stay here at night because it was in the middle of the jungle. It is said that at night time there are wolfs over here as well.

                                                            Top  Views from Chehlam abdaal

Visit to the district chakwal

Visit to the district chakwal

The visit of cholistan desert rally was amazing .I enjoyed a lot. An old friend of mine invited me to his district chakwal. So I packed my bag and headed towards the district chakwal. Chakwal was about 703 kilometre from the point where I was staying near cholistan desert. The distance was very long. It was going to take about 10 hours to reach at chakwal. The bus was going to depart at 9.00 am in the morning.

I sat on the bus and headed straight towards the district chakwal.i was really tired during the travel period. The bus was not comfortable at all. The bad part was that the bus was not even air conditioned. I was sweating a lot. While on our way met with various people. Some were wearing different dresses as per their traditions.

The bus driver was driving really fast. No one was saying anything to the bus driver. He was driving really dangerous. I stood up and requested the driver not to drive fast as it can be dangerous. In the meanwhile I was in contact with my friend Osama who was the resident of chakwal. Osama was my class fellow from the past 5 years. He himself came back to Pakistan to enjoy his summer vacations with his family members. I was in contact with him, He promised me to pick me up from the bus station of chakwal.

8 hours had passes away still 2 more hours to go.i was really tired. This was the worst experience ever. One small child was just sitting besides me. She was not feeling well. By the look of her face, i was feeling that she was going to vomit.well, this actually really did happen. She vomited. The whole bus filled with smell. Worst experience ever. I had tissues with me. I placed it on my nose so that I can not smell that.

chakwal contained almost 207 villages near by which was a lot. According to statistical data there are about 523 schools in district chakwal .In the meanwhile finally reached chakwal.I called osama.He came and picked me up from the bus stop. One thing I noticed about chakwal was that it was located in hilly areas. After a long drive from cholistan to chakwal.I was finally at home of osama.he made special food for me. Foods were biryani, kofta, ras malaie and many other sweet foods were there as well.

The food was very tasty. We talked for a while. I was really tired. He advised me to take rest because I had travelled about 703 kilometer. In the meanwhile told him to make plan for tomorrow visits to various tourist places in chakwal.

Reached at cholistan desert jeep rally

Reached at cholistan desert jeep rally

It was about 7 .00 am in the morning. All of the people in the camp were awake. Me and ehtesham had breakfast with the tradition of perhata and halwa.It was delicious .The journey was not far away. We were almost near to the cholistan jeep rally. We both sat on the bike and it took us about 30 minutes to reach the cholistan desert jeep rally.

At last, after so many hours later. I finally reached the spot famous regarding tourist point. By the time we reach their, there were about 3 thousand people approximately at that spot. And with the passage of time. It increased time by time. Various models of jeep were observed at that spot. This was a new source of enjoyment .Dust was everywhere? People were chanting their heroes name along with their jeep numbers.

Ehtesham had great links with the management conducting the desert rally. I along with him sat on the jeep and participated in the racing contest. Although, I was just sitting behind the driver and did not do nothing. So me and ehtesham along with the driver whom was his friend. We all participated in the race. As soon as the race started. I really got scared because I had never ever experienced this type of fast driving. Luckily, the race ended and unfortunately our team had lost. It was great fun. I was feeling little sick because was not use to fast driving.

After wards, we both had lunch. I thanked Mr Ehtesham for his support and help in reaching at the destination point. This was one of the amazing moments of my life. There were camera drones flying as well for the video recording of these golden moments. It was amazing.afterwards,I sat on the local bus and after wards,i went to the city nearby that was bhawelpur.i found the right hotel and was not as costly as in Islamabad.Tomorrow my plan was to visit Bahawalpur tourist places because I was in Bahawalpur .I made my plan to visit the tourist points of Bahawalpur.

                                                              cholistan desert jeep rally

Inside the jeep

Jouney to Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally

Journey to Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally

I decided to go to cholistan desert jeep rally. The distance was about 5 hours. It was about 258 kilo meter away from Multan.It was introduced by tourism development corporation of Punjab. This event is run by government of Pakistan.This is one of the main tourist points in Pakistan where from different people from various parts of the world come and see this jeep rally. The purpose of this rally is to show show the culture of this region. It is said that about 100 thousand visitors arrives to from various parts of the world in total to see the amazing moments.

While travelling noticed one thing and that was many people were travelling by motorbikes to that specific area in the form of groups. Heavy bikes were also being used by the individuals.In the meanwhile; our bus had some technical fault. The bus stopped and the driver said it was going to take 2 hours to fix it. It was about 9.00 am in the morning. While i was thinking of my plan. A biker was passing by. He asked me if i want to go with him. I agreed so i was with him on the bike. His name was ehtesham.He was residence of bhawelpur.He was coming from Bahawalpur to that rally.

First spot that we passed by was the derawar fort. The fort was built in 9th century. Impressive structure was designed of the wall in this area. Very huge walls were built externally. Many people were their because this was the crossing route going towards the choolistan rally.afterwards, we both had tea break. The tea was very tasty. It was like in old tradition of the cup style. My face was cover with dust and all because of dust everywhere. In the meanwhile, it was getting dark. There were many tents for resting while travelling towards choolistan.i had chances to meet with many famous bikers. One was Mr. Asif raza.i had chance to see fireworks as well on the place where we were suppose to sleep. It was a beautiful night. Flying lanterns were everywhere.

                                                                 Derawar fort

                                    

Flying lanters

Fresh day in Multan

Fresh day in Multan

I woke up early in the morning. I went outside the hotel for breakfast. I had my breakfast with well know breakfast in Pakistan called as “halwa poorie”.It was delicious. The tradition here was almost the same in various cities that I had visited. People were wearing shalwar kameez.anyways, the weather was really hot.

Multan is very nearby to the desert. As mentioned above in previous post. It is consider being city of saints. The city has many bazaars, masjid sharines.Multan is considered to be the oldest city of Pakistan about 6000 years back. First trip was going to Multan fort. This fort was built in between 800 to 1000 B.C.Beautiful Park was just side by the fort known as fort kohana qasim garden. There were benches but I was not able to sit because the weather was hot. At last, I saw a place where there was a sunshade. I sat there for a while and entered the fort. I had Goosebumps when I entered the fort.

It was designed in such a beautiful way. It looked very old. There were total 4 gates to this fort. Qasim gate, khizri gate, sikhi gate, hareri gate. Out of these four gates qasim gate survived other were all destroyed. This place had a long history.afterwards, I moved to a new location known as shah yousuf gardezi tomb. It was fully crowded with many people. The building structure was really amazing. Shah Gardez was an Islamic saint who came to Multan to preach many of the people. It is said that he converted many non Muslims to Muslims.It is said that he came from Afghanistan. The shrine interior is decorated with glass and it was covered in blue tile work. Afterwards, I was really hungry decided to go to resultant so that I can eat. After eating spicy foods in Multan.i planned to visit one more famous location.

The name of the location was Nigar khana.This is also consider to be tourist attraction.It is also known to be house of arts. This place if famous for 45 years because of selling handicrafts and cultural objects over 45 years. I met the person who runs this. His name was Abdul waheed.He had been running this for the past 30 years. Almost all the foreigners do visit this place. He was telling me president of turkey, Saudi also visited this place. It was getting dark and was hot.i decided to go back to the hotel.

                                                             Multan fort

                                                            Nigar khana

Travelling to Multan

Travelling to Multan

I woke up early in the morning. These moments in murrie will always be remembered. I went straight to Daewoo terminal sat on the bus. The bus was going to departure about 12.00 pm.The distance that I had to travel was really long. It was about 605 km.This was one of the longest tour that I to travel by bus. It was going to take the whole day to travel from murrie to Multan. As soon as the bus departed from murrie. It was difficult leaving such a good place.

The weather was very pleasant. As soon as the bus approach towards Islamabad. Weather changed and was becoming hot. From Islamabad .The bus headed straight towards multan.I got really tired of sitting in the bus for a really long time. In the meanwhile, I listened to the latest song trending worldwide. Still the travelling was difficult for me. It was tough sitting at one sear for 8 hours could not explain how difficult it was from going from murrie to Multan.

I finally reached at Multan about 8.00 pm.The weather was really hot as compare to the weather in murrie.I was not being able to walk properly because the 8 hours travelling was very tough. My legs were hurting. I got out of the bus. I went straight to some kind of local restaurant to have dinner. I ate plate of biryani over their. It was delicious. The price of the biryani was 150 rupees. In the meanwhile, I started searching for the hotel to stay in.

Multan was the 7^Th largest city of Pakistan. It is also known to be the city of saints. Most of the Sufi shrines are located in this city. Famous places such as nigar khana,tomb of khawaja awais khagga,qilla kohna qasim bagh stadium are also in this city.Finally,I found the right hotel to stay in. I checked in and went straight to my room number 13.Before sleeping, I made my plan to visit some historical places in Multan.

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                                                                    Multan daewoo service

Visit to Kohala Bridge

Visit to Kohala Bridge

I woke up early in the morning and packed my bag and decided to go to a new place that was near murrie.So I asked for tourist points near murrie.someone advised me to go to Kohala Briadge.kohalla Bridge is just across by Jhelum River. It is 35 km away from murrie. I booked the car and it took me about 80 minutes in reaching the Kohala Bridge. While on the way, I had seen many towns. Houses on the mountains. It was amazing. Although the roads were dangerous. Professional driving is required in driving the car in going towards Kohala Bridge.

It was about 12.00 pm when I reached at kohala bridge spot. It was also consider being a picnic point of the tourist. I had seen many people enjoying picnic party. There were orange tents over there .under that food was provided specially fish. Fresh fish was being offered their at expensive rate. Meanwhile there were other tourist over their as well. The flow of the Jhelum River was very fast. The speed was so fast that someone can easily be pushed by the water and can easily be drowned.

I took my shoes off and sat on the charpaie.it was beautiful view. Kohala Bridge was going to Kashmir. This bridge was really old. It is said to be constructed in 1877.

In the meanwhile I had meet with different families over their. They also offered food to me seeing me alone. The food was very tasty. The people of Pakistan were very nice and their hospitality was also very good. The water was very cold. Someone also advised me not to go too close to the weather because many of the people have died because of the water pressure coming from behind. So I got scared and stood a little back.

It was getting late. So I decided to go back to murrie and explore mall road at night time. So I reached murrie and started exploring mall road. There were many people’s doing shopping at mall road. It was more crowded at night time than in morning. I eat my dinner at restaurant. It was very delicious.afterwards, I started walking towards GPO chowk.There was some kind of political campaign going in murrie. So people were chanting slogans .IT was fun in Murrie. Due to shortage of time, I had to now move from murrie and move towards another location. So I enjoyed a lot in murrie and decided to go and explore a new location in the city of Pakistan. This time it was the turn of south Punjab.

                                                            

                                                                   Kohala Bridge

Kohala bridge view

Picnic Point

Fresh Morning In murrie

Fresh morning in murrie

I woke up early in the morning. The weather was pleasant. It was really cold. The valleys were beautiful from the top. Mountains were covered from snow. The place was just amazing and fascinating . The area was all green. So there were taxi over their waiting for passengers to take to the tourist points. I hired a taxi and went straight to the natiya gali.It was famous for its scenic beauty. It took  me about 30 minutes to reach their. The natural scenery is very attractive. I saw lush green meadows. The amazing part was when I saw the nanga parbat from the top view. It was just amazing. I was just so amazed to see the beautiful view. I was feeling so delighted to see it.i even saw monkeys on the mountains.

The best part was the chair lift. The ticket was about 400 rs.i sat on the chair lift. I was kind of scared because it was located on the a very height. There were also horse ride over their. I also sat on the horse and was entertained over their by horse ride.i saw small kids riding the horse. It was a very pleasant scene.afterwards,I sat on the cable car. That was the scariest scene ever. That was even located at more height than the cable car. Thank god, I was not the patient of height fobia. All the female members were doing shopping at that point.

There were key chains that had name of various people. I was searching for my name in the key chains.I finally got it. The price was about 100 rs.Afterwards.i came back from their and moved to my next location.afterwards,I took the taxi and went straight towards the Kashmir point. Kashmir point was about 15 minutes away from my hotel. It was near to the GPO chowk.

.First of all the weather was very clear and nice. I walked a while and enjoyed the nature beauty over their. Then I moved towards pindi point. That was also located at very a very height. There were also chair lift over their also had the chance of taking a ride on that as well. It went about 1.5k far. After enjoying a ride.i went back towards the hotel. It was just outstanding day. The best moment of my life. I was not going to forget these moments.

                                                                      GPO chowk

           

Leaving Sargodha and going towards Murrie

Leaving Sargodha and going towards Murrie

It was great time spent in sargodha.Most people were wearing shalwar kameez in Sargodha .I did not find anything impressive in Sargodha except for the kirana mountains. Moving on to the next journey was murrie.Murrie was about 300 km from sargodha.It was a long ride .It was about 5 hours from sargodha.First the bus will travel  from Sargodha to Islamabad and then from Islamabad to murrie.

I thanked my friend for his hospitality. The bus departure was about 1.00 pm .after long ride, I finally reached Islamabad. After few minute of break, the I started the journey towards murrie.I had never experience such type of excitement. From Islamabad to murrie. The distance was about 65 km.it took about 1.5 hours to reach their. The weather was amazing Enjoyed it a lot. It was really cold in murrie. The beautiful mountains .Murrie is visited by many tourist from various part of the world. Especially new wed couples also come here for honeymoon.

I was really tired. I started searching for hotel to stay in. The prices of the hotels were very costly. I was shocked to hear their prices and rate. There were many hotels over their. At last, I found the hotel at reasonable price. I checked in the hotel. I was very sleepy. I rested for a while and woke about 7 pm.It was getting night. I came out of hotel and was amazed to see beautiful view of the mountains and natural beauty of this place.

I saw different people from various part of countries.Specially; Chinese were also in large amount. The view was awesome. At night time, there were lighting everywhere specially in the area of the mall road. People were shopping. One things I noticed in murrie was the price and cost of objects as compare to other parts of cities in Pakistan. Objects were costly here. Every item was doubled the price of their original. Since it was night time, I was not being able to visit far places near murrie. So I decided to visit it next morning.

Meanwhile, I started to visit the gaming zone in murrie. It was good to see the latest games in murrie.Afterwards, I went straight back to the hotel. I ordered my dinner in the hotel. The dinner was very tasty. I made my plan to visit the places tomorrow according to the timings.

                                                                 Hotel

Travelling to Sargodha

Travelling to Sargodha

I woke up early in the morning. The weather was very rainy. It was raining very heavily. I decided to wait for a while before going to the bus station. The rain stopped after a while packed my bag and headed straight towards the Daewoo terminal. The distance from Sargodha to Faisalabad was about 131 km.The time duration of the travel was about 2 hours. The bus departure was about 12.00 pm.

Sargodha is the 11^Th largest city of Pakistan. It is very famous for the production of oranges. I reached about 2.20 pm in sargodha.My friend was there on the Daewoo terminal. I was very happy to see him. We headed straight to this house. We had lunch together with his family. The traffic as compare to other cities was low. Motorbikes were seen everywhere. The area where my friend arslan was living was not a good area as well. Roads were not carpeted. Issues of drainage system.

He told me that there are villages nearby and told me all the tourist points in the city sargodha.Me and arslan first visited the company Bagh Park. It was a beautiful park.Greenery was everywhere. We had some good time over there. Just beside the park was the main bazaar of sargodha.The bazaar was filled with so many people .since I was really thirsty, we both drank a cup of fresh juice.

Afterwards, we both visited the University of sargodha.This is the only university in the city sargodha.It was a big university. I met the faculty members. They were very educated. All the students were also very energetic. There was also a cricket match going between two different departments within the university. It was a great match.

Afterwards, He showed me the kirana hills. I loved this place. It was also locally known as to be “black nountains.Its Highest peak is about 980 feet high. It is under the control of Pakistan army. The famous Pakistan air force zone is also located in sargodha.Although we did not had the chance to enter inside and have a look inside the air craft and other .The external view of the building was also very good.

One thing I noticed in Sargodha was the hospitals and the schools. There were too many of them. There were no traffic signals in Sargodha as well. I have seen only 2 to 3 traffic signals in sargodha.I also visited the main plaza of mobiles in sargodha.It was known as “trust plaza”. Afterwards, we visited the famous factory of oranges. We drank fresh juice of oranges in the factory. The taste was amazing. Never drank such type of pure orange juice ever.

  

                                                                     University Of sargodha

Trust Plaza Sargodha

Travelling to Faisalabad for a day.

Travelling to Faisalabad for a day.

I packed my bag and thanked haroon for his hospitality that he had given me in my staying in Lahore. He insisted that he will drop me at the bus stop. I said no because I wanted to try take the ride of rickshaw.rickshaw is mostly used in most of the Asian countries for travelling within the city. I sat on the rickshaw.The driver was driving the rickshaw very fast. It was fun sitting in the rickshaw.although it was not that comfortable. Within 20 to 30 minutes, I reached the bus stop. This time the bus stop was Faisal movers.

I purchased the ticket of Faisalabad.This time the travel duration was going to be about 2 hours. Faisalabad was almost 180 km.I sat on the bus. Bus was very comfortable. The bus departed at 12.00 PM.I reached Faisalabad about 2.20 PM.I searched for hotel to stay in. I finally found the right hotel. Although it was not as good as compare to the Islamabad hotel. I placed all my bags and everything in the room. Since it was after noon, I had a great chance of going to some tourist points

I was really hungry. I wanted to search for the best restaurant in Faisalabad.Someone advised me to visit Chiniot palace. This hotel was very luxurious. I entered restaurant. The restaurant was very beautiful from inside. I ordered fish. It was very delicious. My tummy was really full. I enjoyed a lot there.

The next stop was visiting the famous clock tower in Faisalabad.The clock tower is one of the oldest monuments. The main importance of the clock tower is that it is standing in the center of eight markets. From bird’s eye view look like union jack flag on England. It was build in 1903.In Pakistan it is known to be “Ghanta ghar chowk”.This place was very crowded with so many peoples. This is also the center of all activities that happens in the city during elections and many other important events

The next stop that I was told to visit was the Jinnah gardens in Faisalabad.It was a big park.Although, I did not find something new here. It was like other ordinary parks. There were exercise machine as well where people were doing exercise .It is said that this was historical place for Pakistan. That’s why they name if after Quaid e azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.The Jinnah garden Faisalabad.

Honestly speaking if I had to compare Faisalabad with the 2 other cities that I visited. I would prefer the other 2 cities on this city. So it was getting dark. I decided to go back to hotel. I decided to change my mind, and decided to go to another place. I asked my friend for the best location for tourist in Pakistan.They named many but among many there was Murrie.So next morning planned to visit murrie But in the meanwhile I called my old friend. He told me that he was in sargodha.He insisted me to visit him at sargodha.I told him all about the plan. He said that Sargodha is just near to Faisalabad. So my plan changed.Tomorrow morning I was going to go to Sargodha to my friend house

                                                      Jinnah Gardens in Faisalabad

Chiniot Palace