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Lahore Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lahore
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Pearl Continental Lahore
52 reviews -
Holiday Inn City Centre Lahore
20 reviews -
Avari Lahore
45 reviews
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Lahore Country Club
3 reviews
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Mirage Hotel & Banquet Hall Lahore
23 reviews
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Hotel Elites Lahore
4 reviews
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National Hotel Lahore
13 reviews -
Quick Continental Hotel Lahore
5 reviews
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Regency Inn Hotels Lahore
3 reviews
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Sunfort Hotel Lahore
8 reviews
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The Residency Hotel Lahore
19 reviews -
Windmills Hotel Lahore
6 reviews
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Parkway Hotel Lahore
4 reviews
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Hotel Melrose Inn Lahore
3 reviews
Lahore
Travel Blogs from Lahore, Pakistan
Thank you and Goodbye
This is a top pick! ... chap her parents set her up with! I also asked her loads of other things, like, do they have sex education in school in Pakistan and she thought I meant sex in school (ha! How much of a laugh would that be!). But I explained that it was important for ...
So many of us in one place!
This is a top pick! ... and it went off somewhere. We sent it slow so fingers crossed it gets there! One of the things to do whilst in Pakistan is to experience Sufi drumming, and what an experience it is!! The Regale take people every Thursday night to a particular shrine, ...
Four Nights with Sufis
This is a top pick! ... ;Some Muslims would disagree with Malik, however; another man, a Sunni said "Sufis are not Muslims." Entering into Pakistan is entering into the world of Islam with all its intricacies, its grace, its misunderstandings, its turmoil, ...
Boring Border Crossing Number 20..
This is a top pick! A quick one from the border between Pakistan and India. Generally I wouldn't send anything from a border crossing but this one was quite interesting we thought. Maybe we're nerds. Due to the 'tensions' between Pakistan and India no trucks are allowed ...
Goodbye Multan and thanks!
This is a top pick! ... the burial site, so we sat under a tree and talked to our guard about the cost of cigarettes and the average monthly wage in Pakistan. I brought drinks and juice out of the camper and we had a nice break under the trees with the museum guard and a few ...
Sufi Night
This is a top pick! ... full of people escaping their daily humdrum lives, in a way that we would go to the pub. But there are no pubs in Pakistan. Once we found the performance area, which we had to force our way through an unrelenting crowd to reach, we were packed into a ...
All together now!
This is a top pick! ... Internet Inn, by the Regal Cinema on The Mall. This is because: 1. There aren't that many independent travellers in Pakistan. 2. All the other budget hotels have a reputation for either: (i) taking things out of your room (e.g. your cash) ...
24hrs in Lahore
This is a top pick! I've just spent my first 24 hours in Pakistan it's second largest city and food capital, Lahore. Lahorian's are very nice people, extremely hospitable and friendly. The most common question I've encountered is "Where you from?" that came from nearly ...
Oh Lahore!
This is a top pick! ... but from what I can tell, Lahore is definitely "where its at" in Pakistan. I was told - if you haven't seen Lahore, you haven't seen Pakistan. Well, I saw Pakistan! The markets are the most fun - Lahore is famous for shoe-shops. They have mountains of ...
Allah Hafiz Lahore
This is a top pick! Lahore was something amazing, full of life, crazy traffic and above all friendly. I was really touched by the hospitality showed to me by the IEE crew, they looked after my every need so much so that I had no worries there! Thank you Rehan, Raisa, ...
Welcome to 'Food Street'
This is a top pick! ... Smith, Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson, you are not a true chef until you have visited 'Food Street' in Lahore. Lahore being the food capital of Pakistan has one street closed off to cars in the evening about 100m long just full of restaurants selling ...
Never take Visa travellers cheques to Pakistan
This is a top pick! ... in the WAPDA (Water and Power District Authority) building. It was going to cost me 4,480 Rupees to purchase a ticket with PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) and thought I doubted whether this was the best price or not, it was within my price range. I ...
IEE Presentation Number 1
This is a top pick! ... people to join an organisation where they have to put the effort in themselves to reap the benefits later. The YMS in Pakistan is still in its' early stages although it has shown tremendous ambition and has a fantastic executive committee. I've been ...
The Beating Drum
This is a top pick! ... lost 10 Kilos since we have left London, but sadly, Lucy has only lost 1.5 K's !!! So we moved onto the largest Mosque in Pakistan. The Badshahi Mosque. Made out of red sandstone, with four minarets, it is very impressive. It is meant to be able hold up ...
Border showdown
This is a top pick! The best thing I did whilst in Lahore was to go to the Pakistan-India border to watch the daily lowering of the flags ceremony. Crowds gather on each side of the border and yell "Zindabad Pakistan!" or "Zindabad Hindustan" in direct conforntation ...
Lahore and Islamabad
This is a top pick! ... and then across a filthy river to the truck decorations bazaar. Here we saw all the tat that is on every single truck in Pakistan being made - basically metal with stickers and card attached to them. The boy had to spend some time making just a small bit ...
The Ministry of Silly Walks
This is a top pick! ... ll see in the pictures all the amazingosity that is the Indian uniform and crazy high kicking. Let me just mention Pakistan. We were a little far away from them, but I espied some things. Mostly they did the same thing, ...
Pakistan Ends
This is a top pick! ... is a complete hornbag, but she did not hear me. All good convos come to an end, and hers did, when we pulled into Lahore. We grabbed a waiting rickshaw, and went back to our former abode. The Regale Internet Inn. Malik, the owner, was excited to see us ...
Lousy (in) Lahore
... I'm fearful I'll clog the machine with mud when I wash them. If - and that's a mighty big if - I do come back to Pakistan I think I'll avoid the cities and head north to the Himalayas with my newly adoptive mother for the clean air. After two overseas ...
Border Ceremony
Lahore is on the east side of Pakistan, the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. I instantly liked the city and it had a nice vibe about it. I visited Lahore Fort which was built, damaged, ...
A bus, and the stunning town of Peshawar
... 2003 - 20th December 2003) Ah smashing! As the huge and ridiculously over loaded 'bus' from Iran set off for Pakistan, passengers were doused in a mysterious petrol type liquid. There was panic as the driver climbed over and sampled it before safely ...
Bravery or Idiocy?
... . When you're in a bit of a hash haze around 1:00 in morning trapped against a wall surrounded by hundreds of men in Pakistan, several of whom just touched your ass, it's rather safe to say that you've been in better situations. Then the first song ...
48 Degrees in the Sun
... ; but eventually that gringo magic worked in our favour and we were allowed pass on through here into the islamic republic of pakistan. we hung round at the border to watch the extremely showy closing of the border ceremony. if the truth ...
Pakistan Border
Please excuse all grammar and spelling mistakes. <<< These keyboards are difficult to manoeuvre around, and it's tough to keep all my thoughts in order. Romeo and I had to get some serious antibiotics to stem the food born illness and tonight ...
Busy day
... the border. Marcin is grinning and ready to drive faster but I reckon this is going to be a tough crossing. India does not like Pakistan, they’re not going to make this any easier for us. In fact the only way we might get through quicker is to say ...
Quetta to Lahore
... to opt out of both the country's capital, Islamabad, and the famously beautiful mountains that clothe the Northern heights of Pakistan. We accepted the 40-hour roof-top ride - on a typically beautifully ornamented Pakistani truck - in a flash. We are ...
through multan to lahore
On the road through Multan we arrived in Lahore, which compared to what we had seen in Pakistan so far, was a real ...
