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Lahore Slideshow
Lahore
Travel Blogs from Lahore, Pakistan
Lazing in Lahore
... our last experience with dirt tracks/rain/desert didn't really want to make us pursue castles much anymore. Back to Multan and onto Lahore. We have hung out here for a couple of days and really that is about the longest you could as the air pollution ...
Back across the border
... again. We’d only been able to speak through Skype to him mobile because of the situations between the two countries. Pakistan was the most expensive country to call from India and sms messages didn’t work from India to Pakistan, although they ...
Eggs and Brownouts (Lahore -- Day 5)
... the corner from open-air barbecue joints that were little more than a hole in the wall. The weather had turned cold (o.k., cold for Lahore), and it was raining. Suddenly, in the middle of 4 lanes of heavy traffic (and in the dark, mind you), this little ...
LUMS, Bus Art, More Poverty, Karachi (Day 16)
... I have posted a few pictures, but you can get a good idea of what's here by looking at Masterpieces to Go: The Trucks of Pakistan, which claims, "In Karachi alone, a port city of 14 million on the Arabian Sea, more than 50,000 people toil in small, ...
Badshahi mosque (Lahore, Pakistan)
... ;ھی مسجد), (from Persian, Padshahi, "imperial") or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and ...
Plentiful Pakistani Adventures
... into a nicer hotel then juiced and dined us(alcohol is prohibited). Showed us the wonder of the old city-gigantic mosque, Lahore Fort and Mogul Garden. Patrick made about a hundred friends with his charming good looks, after a hundred handshakes and even ...
Poverty, poverty, AK-47s & Birdies (Day 12)
... a fitting the other day -- getting my Pakistani wardobe together at Bareeze, an upscale designer shop in Liberty, a section of Lahore. There were heavily-armed guards in front of all the shops. Ex-army fellows in camo, carrying Kalashnikovs, ...
My last few days in Pakistan..for now
... mum and dad to let them know I was ok if they saw the news and I kept in touch with my friends across Pakistan. I'm still amazed that there be such evil, cold blooded people in a country where the majority of people are so kind, friendly, ...
Traffic, Jewels, Weapons, & V-Day (Lahore, Day 14)
... stone. They made it specially for us. On Valentine's Day, we had our driver take us to the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore. After the bombing in Islamabad, they had really stepped up security. We had a security check with six guards at the main ...
Unexpectedly enjoyable time in Lahore
... again. Jung came with me to the border to say goodbye which was very sweet her and was also hard saying goodbye. Pakistan was a really special place for me I genuinely felt like a guest wherever I went and the people were always friendly and ...
Lahore
... , keen on having a conversation with you, paying for your meal and tea, or inviting you to their homes. Lahore is the cultural metropolis of Pakistan. The first night Malik arranged a short private concert of a Sufi band in our hotel, including also a ...
Rawalpindi/Islamabad/Lahore/Peshawar
A few pics from cities of Pakistan....we did not take many pics but here are a ...
Border closing ceremony
... happens every day, but apparently Sunday's are particularly busy. It seems strange that closing the border between India and Pakistan constitutes a family day out, but that's definitely what it was. The ceremony was fantastic. The enthusiasm shown by ...
Lahore's old city and Jehangir's Tomb
... Jehangir's Tomb. It was a little way out of the city. To get there we went onto the new motorway that their building around Lahore. It's not finished yet, which I guess is why people were driving in both directions on both sides of the road! Again, it ...
Pakistani's are some of the friendliest people!
We're just about to hop on a bus from Lahore up to 'Pindi (Rawalpindi), and in the 20 hours we've been here we've met many friendly people. The person photocopying our passports wouldn't accept money, and even gave us a pen for free. People stop us and ...
Travelling back to Lahore
... isolated, especially after Dost Dar's advances, and it's amazing how much more relaxed I've felt. This evening we had dinner on Lahore's Food Street. It was quite an experience; not being able to decide whether we wanted half a brain or a whole, or ...
Asalaam Aleikum, Pakistan!
... an error in their visas so I waited for them just after the border. My procedure was smooth and I was warmly welcome in Pakistan by every officer I encountered. I had my first Pakistani chai and learnt in Urdu two most common phrases, like I do in every ...
Lahore - Day 3
... 't help. I get wide-eyed goggling stares from pretty much everyone, and I (inadvertently) frighten young children. 4) LUMS is not Lahore. Not by a long shot. It's beautiful and very insulated from the rest of the Pakistani world. No beggars here. No ...
Ur choice!
Back to the basics, ppl love to stay in Lahore for their vacations . . . while we're returning to Lahore after the vacations of our lives! 1130PM . . . ur choice to stay for the night in Lahore, or start your journey back to Multan . . ...
Some like it Hot!
... sense took and so we slept long and woke up leisurely, organised ourselves, bought postcards, wrote e-mails etc. (no facebook in Pakistan either!). Then in the afternoon we went to the border to watch a ceremony between the guards of India and Pakistan ...
Lahore
... rubbish I have ever seen. When I arrived a couple of men were warming up the crowd by running up and down waving a Pakistan flag as patriotic music blared out through loud speakers, the same thing happened on the Indian side. Then two groups of ...
The build up
We're reached Lahore and its time for build up . . . Smoke as much as you can, but the waiting hours will feel longer & longer For the flight to Karachi leaves at 11AM on 16th of June ...
The heat is on
... for the best - this is a hard country with a lot of problems. And then there's the heat. By the third day in Pakistan, it was almost too much to walk outside the bus. We stopped for lunch at Moenjodaro, the ruins of an ancient Buddhist civilisation on ...
Trust In Meat
... and back in a theatrical attempt to out-bravado each other, while baying crowds on each side shout for 'Hindustan!' or 'Pakistan' respectively. Palin filmed it. What no one had mentioned was the, possibly even sillier, ceremony that takes place throughout ...
Attari/Wagar
The border between India and Pakistan. Attari is the Indian side Wagar is the Pakistan side. Everynight they have a closing ceremony, on both sides, to officially close the border for the night. The ceremony is soo big they have built grandstands for the ...
'I say we don't like cruckut, Oohh noo' (Culture)
I head from Gun cricket to Pakistan's more secular religion, Cricket, in Lahore. I have never been with Lahore before but my first experience of La-whore is as expected confusing, exciting and more than a little dirty. As soon as my Irish mate Sam ...
We Made It!
... (a target area) and through Lahore (another target area). Unfortunately, again, the border was closed, so we camped on the Pakistan side of the border to cross the next day. More people had caught the traveler’s lurgy, except it had progressed from ...
The world is a book ....
... valley and Aga Khan land. All signs acknowledge his philanthropy – the schools, health centres, reconciliation centres (?) Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Plan. In one village did see signs for a women's vocational training in IT skills. But ...
Bluster on the Border with Pakistan
... ;Apparently people come from all across India to see this spectacle. The Indian side was packed to overflowing, yet the Pakistan side was virtually empty. Pakistani Rangers dress in long black uniforms and have their own blustering, stomping and ...