Marriott Islamabad

... and green city. The houses around our guest house were large and expensive, similar to the homes in Sydney’s exclusive suburb of Vaucluse. We were told that former President Pervez Musharraf still resides in the area. It certainly lured us into a feeling of security although we must admit that our guest house was fully barricaded and guarded 24 hours a day by three armed police, all with pump action shot guns swung casually over their shoulders.

Islamabad, Islāmābād, Pakistan crowdywendy

... and they were really nice guys with a very different lifestyle to the other parts of Pakistan that I'd visited. P loves it here - particularly for the people side- her friends just drop in to see her without making 'appointments' as it works in Europe. She likes the fact that things just happen - I've got to agree that side is really appealing and something I've got used to since I've been here - you don't always know who you'll see of where you'll end up but it ...

Well, I done think there is much I can say that the pictures do not show. On our way to back to Gilgit we got held up for a number of hours by a landslide that didn't seem to want to stop. The digger would finally clear the road only for alot more rock to fall immediately after, in the end, we waited until the road was half clear and made a dash for it. I covered my face as we went under incase any rocked hit the windows. From Gilgit I did not hang around and ...

... next stop was about 6km ahead dunga gali. another hill station from there we took tea break and further to mukspuri. that was amazingly beautifull carpetted with wild daisy till horizon. mukspuri is situated at an elevation of 8500ft above sea level.

... out. First went to Pakistan Monument which was on top of a hill at the south of the city. From there you could see the whole city with landmarks like Shah Faizal Mosque and the Salt Range mountains behind it. The monument was pretty nice and I took a few photos. Then I went walking towards the mosque's direction and arrived in the Blue Area - Islamabad's high street. It's a long stretch of shops selling electronics, clothes, banks, airline offices, etc. I walked along and ...

Arrived Islamabad on 1 June but I've talked about the trip from Islamabd to Gilgit. Just arrived Gilgit this morning. Took a taxi and head straight to Madina Hotel (some random hotel I chose from LP...good hotel actually!). By then I've realised that I've travelled for ~48 hours and haven't showered for 2 days...I stinked terribly. My all covered in dust and I'm tired. Took a long ...

... southward out of China. The texts always refer to the Kushans as Great, but in the White Huns did not find them so great because in the 5th century they came through and destroyed everything that represented civilization. History represents the Huns as mean and ugly and their only pleasure was hurting others. But they really were a jolly bunch, once you got to know them. The White Huns were a different bunch then Attila's Huns who went west to Europe, although the ...

... entering their own opinions into a so-called unchangeable holy text. Thus the written word is imperfect, because it is subject to misinterpretation, and can lead to divisions of man, to duality, to the events of 9/11 and fighting between Sunnis and Shi'as and between man and nature and between countries with their boundaries: "I am good and you are evil!" But according to all the holy Abrahamic traditions, God has given us free will--Timshel--and we can change our ways.

... fecklessness back into their  game. Ultimately losing on the last day - failing to chase a total that the  Leeds Uni Women's Cricket Club would have knocked off without a flutter of an  eyelash. And then on to Faisalabad - a dusty town 200km west of Lahore. Again,  England managed to put the feck into ___lessness and were lucky to get a draw  out of the game. The most excitement was to be had on Day 3 on the boundary  at extra cover - around 100m to the right of ...

... zu einer Ruine in irgendeinem aNDEREM Nest. Dort bekomme ich netterweise ein Zimmer im Haus fuer Mining Officers, da es schon zu spaet ist um weiterzureisen. Und am naechstem Tag besuchen mich zwei von ihnen. Muhhamed und Zafir oder so. Sie behaupten ich sei ihr Gast und wachen mit Argusaugen darueber das ich ja nix von meinem Geld kaufe, da ich ihr Gast bin....das Problem ist das ich deswegen lieber Hunger und Durste als schon wieder etwas von ...