Islamabad, Pakistan Travel Blogs

Green and not.
Oct 15, 2005 (13 photos)

... 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 Peshawar.

Pakistan
Sep 11, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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 ...

Quetta to Islamabad
Jun 11, 2007 (25 photos)

... 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 ...

Rajar Bazaar, No! Sadar Bazaar!
Oct 26, 2005

... 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 this ...

It's all relative
Oct 13, 2004

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
Oct 26, 2004

... . 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 have to queue for the special bus that goes into the ...

Timshel and September 11
Sep 11, 2007

... 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 ...

Twins
Oct 17, 2005 (10 photos)

... window. A window for foreigners !!! Straight to the front of the queue, we dropped off our passports and said goodbye to Islamabad. Not the most exciting place, but our job had been done, and we decided to go the 14klm's to Rawalpindi. Rawalpindi ...

Sabipak Travelers Home Guest Hosue Islamabad
Jul 30, 2008

Sabipak "Traveler's Home" Guest House Islamabad-Pakistan is a pleasant addition to hospitality setups, where we welcome our distinguished guests, from all over the world. The purpose is to provide an exclusive blend of services with a vast range of ...

Islamabad
Jul 29, 2008 (18 photos)

... 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 ...

NewCapeGrace Guest House in Islamabad Pakistan
Nov 6, 2009 (3 photos)

... Pakistan, during my visit I stayed in different cities and in different hotels. A week at New Cape Grace Guest House in Islamabad was the best out of all. The Guest house is magnificent and I have never experienced such incredible service before. Having ...

BVAWT029 - OPRN
Oct 13, 2008

OPRN - Benazir Bhutto International Airport

Islamabad
Aug 20, 2008

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Visit to the Capital
Dec 13, 1980 (2 photos)

13 Dec 80 Recently created capital. Very modern, mixed reviews.

ISLAMABAD
Jul 20, 2007

Travel to karakorum

city tour
Jun 11, 2000

beatiful city in the world

Bomb, what bomb?
Oct 5, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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 applied in ...

Islamabad
Jun 6, 2004 (7 photos)

One of the beautiful capital city.

Islmabad
Jul 13, 2008

India/Pakistan update coming soon!

Islamabad
Jun 12, 2007

... 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 ...

Easy in Islamabad
Sep 26, 2007 (16 photos)

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 ...

Visiting Hussain and his family
Jan 6, 2007 (5 photos)

... . 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 Court - ...

I was seeking sanctuary from pollution, but...
Jun 10, 2006

... 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 this ...

A European feel in Islamabad
Mar 3, 2009 (2 photos)

... 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, wide, tree- ...

Islambore!
Aug 14, 2007

... 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
Sep 1, 2006 (4 photos)

A few pics from cities of Pakistan....we did not take many pics but here are a few.

From Hushe to Skardu and down Karakoram Highway
Jul 13, 2006 (3 photos)

... 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 highway ...

Islamabad
Jan 11, 2007 (6 photos)

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. ...

The Karakorum Highway-Islamabad to Gilgit
Jul 1, 2005 (13 photos)

... 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 without ...

Our Flight to Islamabad OR Paranoia on PIA!
Jun 12, 2009 (3 photos)

... of course convinced that flying was the preferred option. Our only problem was that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights from Gilgit to Islamabad are more often cancelled than actually fly. Any chance of bad weather is absolutely perilous for ...