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