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- Islamabad
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Islamabad Slideshow
Top Hotels in Islamabad
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Islamabad Marriott Hotel
32 reviews -
Islamabad Serena Hotel
61 reviews -
Pearl Continental Islamabad
3 reviews
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Best Western Islamabad Hotel
4 reviews -
Ambassador Hotel Islamabad
1 review -
Holiday Inn Islamabad
5 reviews
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Hotel Depapae (INTL) Islamabad
3 reviews
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Hotel Marina International Islamabad
1 review
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Shalimar Hotel Islamabad
2 reviews
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Hotel Crown Plaza Islamabad
2 reviews
Islamabad
Travel Blogs from Islamabad, Pakistan
Green and not.
This is a top pick! ... fluffy! I really wanted to take some with me but just further up the street was the reminder of what they would soon turn into so I put them back. That was Rawalpindi. So much more entertaining than Islamabad! Tomorrow we were off to ...
Pakistan
This is a top pick! ... I have seen. I got to Pakistan about a week ago and I have had an amazing time thus far. I have mainly been in Islamabad and Rawlapindi which are twin cities of sorts. Islamabad is a fairly new city, and quite nice as it was the first planned city in ...
It's all relative
This is a top pick! The bus to Gilgit made a dinner stop in a poor looking place. On the back page of The Economist I was reading was an advert for Patek Phillipe watches. It made me think that the cost of one of these watches was more than the annual earnings of the poor ...
Indian Visa Nightmare
This is a top pick! ... , even Burma made it easier to get into their country. Part One I made a two day round trip from Gilgit to Islamabad using two consecutive night buses to make the application. I arrived Islamabad at about 0630 and headed straight to the area where you ...
Rajar Bazaar, No! Sadar Bazaar!
This is a top pick! ... before us, a few hours outside Rawalpindi and offered to put us up at his house. We had to decline as we had to be in Islamabad the next morning to pick up our passports but we swapped emails. Maybe we'll look him up when we're next in Pakistan. At ...
Timshel and September 11
This is a top pick! ... into a quest, eventually, so I left America, not knowing what to expect, but knowing that eventually I would arrive in Pakistan, to read the Koran, perhaps to partake in Ramadan fasting, perhaps to learn how people here are thinking, perhaps to go to ...
Quetta to Islamabad
This is a top pick! ... we hired a jeep out to a glacier in Hoper Valley. We retraced our steps South through the Karakoram to Islamabad, which I will venture tomorrow. Pakistan has been like a series of countries. In the south nomads somehow survive in the dusty scorching ...
Twins
This is a top pick! ... , so she settled back with me to take part in my weekend of sitting in front of the box !!! We did have a walk around Islamabad, and basically, it is a capital city, built into squares and is not a very exciting place. We did however make one important ...
For Better or For Worse - We Head off to Islamabad
... in Islamabad". After hearing his hair raising adventures, I began to feel a bit brighter about our stay in Pakistan. Ishaq Ali was right. Islamabad International Airport looked calm enough. Probably too calm. When we were last there in 2009 for our ...
Islamabad
... Marriott Hotel being blown up, this was one of the only places in the city you could get alcohol) When in Islamabad I went straight to the embassy. The embassy was for Afghanistan...yes Afghanistan. Being so close, much as with Kazakhstan ...
Bomb, what bomb?
... the most part this is because the grime, crowds and general hubub is situated a few miles down the road in Rawalpindi, Islamabad's dirty, hectic little brother - the archetypal capital city. Getting our visas proved to be harder than expected. We had ...
Islamabad
... will have to stop more often for the sick people to deal with their issues as we drive - sounds like a real giggle! Islamabad It's 44 degrees in Islamabad and will be 47 when we get there tomorrow. Apparently over 100 people have dies in ...
Visiting Hussain and his family
... year. Hussain's family live in Islamabad, the very modern capital of Pakistan created in 1967. We saw most of Islamabad while in Pakistan and a few surrounding areas. Islamabad is home to the National Parliament of Pakistan and the National Supreme ...
Easy in Islamabad
September 26, 2007, Wednesday Islamabad, Pakistan We are now in Islamabad. We've been here since the 21st. Our train trip here from Lahore on the excellent Quetta Express cost 1020 Pakistani rupees. The exchange rate is 60 rupees per dollar. It is ...
A European feel in Islamabad
... Afghanistan or by air so reluctantly I came to explore the latter option from Islamabad. . Islamabad was unlike anywhere else I'd been in Pakistan. It was quite European in some ways with many people in western clothes, long, straight, ...
I was seeking sanctuary from pollution, but...
... , sniff) I was so stressed with the pollution of Multan that I decided to skip Lahore for the time being and came straight to Islamabad. The main purpose of being here is to sort out my Iranian visa and airplane ticket back there. Not much to see in ...
Snowy Mountains, Yak shit and Chinese bureaucracy
... we make it just in time at the Chinese exit gate. To find ourselves 2km later at the top of the Kunjerab pass, entering Pakistan! A bit unexpected with no special notice board, so we hardly realize we just made it to 4700m, on the highest paved road in ...
Islambore!
... dinner in Lahore and were unbelievably generous, refusing to let us pay for drinks and snacks. We decided to carry on our mission to Islamabad sice we were already shattered and there were 2 seats in a mini bus ready to go. At 2.30 am we arrived. Only ...
Rawalpindi/Islamabad/Lahore/Peshawar
A few pics from cities of Pakistan....we did not take many pics but here are a ...
From Hushe to Skardu and down Karakoram Highway
... we were told that all PIA flight were grounded the next day. This information lead us to believe that we had to drive back to Islamabad, and that was also what we ended up doing. For me this was just fine, since I hadnīt experience the famous Karakoram ...
Islamabad
Similarly to why we visited Taiwan, we visited Pakistan because the family of Hussain, one of Ali's pupils, invited us to visit them. It turns out that Pakistan is a varied country with much to do - we visited Texilla, the site of an ancient civilisation. ...
Islamabad
... plying the route to Islamabad. That was like entering a different world. Rawalpindi is busy, chaotic and dusty city whereas Islamabad is a complete opposite. They started building it only 60 years ago. It’s divided into sectors separated by ...
The Karakorum Highway-Islamabad to Gilgit
... things quieten down, and we take a sleeping tablet and get a couple of hours sleep. Wed 30th June Islamabad-Besham (Pakistan) Fairly rough landing just after 6am. Long taxi, but the passengers are surprisingly well behaved. Through immigration ...