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Machulo La Trek – Trip Report

Jalal Haider — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:20:14 +0000

The days are getting noticeably shorter now in Pakistan. Most of the valleys only spend a short time in the sun. The high mountains cast a shadow by mid-afternoon. The officer who patrols the green suspension bridge halfway between Skardu and Khaplu seems somewhat surprised to see us again. I disembark in fading light and […]

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Trip Report – Karachi Pakistan

Mohsin Ansari — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:42:24 +0000

“Pakistan? Pakistan!? Are you crazy, why are you going to Pakistan?” My colleague almost yelled as I broke the news of my upcoming business trip, her eyes wide with surprise. As I calmed her down and explained my excitement about the trip – how I was looking forward to explore the business opportunity and to […]

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Trip Report: Necropolis of Chitorri in Sindh

Mohsin Ansari — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:22:21 +0000

On my way back from Chorr, Tharparker to Mirpurkhas. We stopped on a petrol pump for refueling tank. We asked the man on petrol pump about the Chitorri graveyard and it was a good news for us that he knew about the graveyard. So,we decided to see the graveyard. I came to know about this […]

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Trip Report: Sadhbelo in Sukkur

Mohsin Ansari — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:12:31 +0000

Very famous and old in the name of Sadhu Island or sadh Belo. In Urdu it is called Sadhu Bella. It is establishment in 1823 by Baba Brakhandi Maharaja. It is located in Sukkur on Indus River. One can find the most refined dance and music images on the northern wall of eight Temple. There […]

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Trip Report: Sightseeing in Tharparkar

Maryam Manzoor — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:52:51 +0000

I was waiting for a long weekend, so I could travel somewhere. God listened and we got holiday of independence, from 12 – 14 august. After discussing with my family, we decided to visit Tharparkar. Tharparkar District is one of the twenty nine districts of Sindh province in Pakistan. It is headquartered at Mithi. It […]

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Trip Report: Roaming in Lahore

Saad Yousaf — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:33:00 +0000

Lahore is the capital of Punjab state. Home to 11m people it’s Pakistan’s second largest city and its cultural hub. It’s a vibrant place full of chaos and contrast, with squalor and splendour, wide green boulevards and chaotic small streets. The locals have a saying “If you haven’t seen Lahore you haven’t been born yet.” […]

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Trip Report – A Day Trip to Wagah Border Lahore

Saad Yousaf — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:08:48 +0000

Every evening since 1959 (except for a brief period when they were at war) India and Pakistan have undertaken a nightly border closing ceremony at the Wagah crossing. It has become infamous for being a strange spectacle of overt nationalism, and involving very tall men from the Border Security Force on the Indian side and […]

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Trip Report – Sightseeing at Deosai National Park

Aimen Ayub — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:48:19 +0000

The Deosai Plains are a National Park established to protect the Himalayan Brown Bear. The second highest plateau in the world, it is only open in the summer, linking Skardu and Astore for a few months a year via a rough 4WD track. Covering 3000 sq kmit is vast and is carefully managed by Park […]

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Trip Report: Hunza Valley’s Ghulkin Glaciers

Aimen Ayub — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:25:59 +0000

The Hunza Valley is said to be the inspiration behind the mythical valley of Shangri-La in James Hilton’s 1933 novel ‘Lost Horizon.’ It’s really not hard to see why. Rehman is infamous in the Pakistan traveler network for hosting foreigners at his family’s home in Ghulkin, a small village in the Hunza Valley just 15 […]

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How Shimshal Women Are Conquering Pakistan’s Epic Mountains

Arsalan Karim — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:52:55 +0000

In a remote village tucked away in Pakistan’s far north, a small group of women are breaking conventional barriers and overcoming all kinds of danger to conquer high altitude mountaineering expeditions. Hafiza Bano knows the dangers of high altitude mountaineering very well – avalanches, deadly blizzards, thin ice, crevasses. But for the 24-year-old, the lure […]

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Trip Report: Losing Ourselves in Hunza’s Passu Village

Arsalan Karim — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:31:35 +0000

Passu is a small isolated village, with just one shop, one cafe and a few hotels. It is dominated by the very photogenic 6100m high jagged peaks of the Cathedral Range. The locals speak Wakhi, the same as in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan Wakhan Valley, which we figured must literally be not far over the […]

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