Tour de Pakistan

I wasn’t active for a couple of weeks this month, and posted an apology post for that too. While not having access to the internet I was actually having the time of my life seeing what Pakistan had to offer in its beautiful landscape. We travelled by train, car and bus you name it we had to hike and ride on 4x4 long chassis jeeps for rough rugged roads. All the planning was sudden and made because my cousin had his convocation in GIKI a university located in North Pakistan so the family decided to attend his convocation and travel across the beautiful North on our way back. In the end we went up till Khunjerab Pass where there is a Pak-China border and a tourist hub of sorts.

I had so much going on during my summer break, couldn’t keep you guys updated, my uncle asked me if I wanted to come and for a while I felt perplexed and needed a bit of thought. My internship was going on at SIEMENS it had to end at 14 June and they were leaving at 11 June. There was a three day differential and needed some convincing to be done by me towards the bosses at the company. Nonetheless I told them the scenario and to my surprise they let me leave a little early the guys in the company are just awesome but that is a topic for another day. I was really happy and gave my uncle the thumps up who booked another train ticket for me, meanwhile I sold the Ps4 and bought a Canon camera for this trip to have the right equipment for covering the natural beauty Pakistan has to offer.

The trip was all planned out first we would ride the train till Lahore, stay and travel the city for two days, then travel by bus to Islamabad the capital of Pakistan make a day trip to GIKI and attend the convocation, after that the real adventure begins and for that we booked a car with a guide to take us through North Pakistan, I’ll be telling you all about the day by day journey we had. For now our train was set to leave at 9 PM on 11th June and reach Lahore at 1 PM the next day. We stopped at different stations and what better way to test my camera, got a hold of a pretty nice picture at the station it was night time so the background isn’t quite visible.

There was also a tea stall at Bahawalpur station, and when I got the camera out the guy asked for a picture, I happily obliged and this was the result. Don’t even know his name but when I showed him the pic he was really happy we had a short stop there so couldn’t have a chat with him but he looked to be a happy soul selling tea to make a hard earned living.

Beside him was a stall selling dry fruits and (Halwa) a sweet dish that is pretty famous in Pakistan it is particularly known as Sohan Halwa people crave for its taste here.