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... 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.

Arrived Rawalpindi's Pir Wadhai bus station at arond 7.45am. It was drizzling earlier on and it was just gloomy for the whole day. Followed LP's recommendation to Simara Hotel in Sitara Market but the hotel was fulled. Probably I was too early and everyone was still sleeping. Remembered Nemat told me about Blue Sky Hotel in Sitara Market too so I went there. Single room without aircon is Rs500 but with aircon is Rs1200! Of couse I took the one without aircon. Took a shower 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 ...

... as well, all within a 25 Km sq. area known as Taxila. There is evidence of human habitation here going back to the stone age. The Takkas from Iran invaded the region around 1200 BC bringing Achaemenian culture to Taxila. The Takkas were snake worshippers. They founded a city at Bhir Mound in the 6th century BC. Darius the king of Persia annexed Taxila in 522 BC. In 326 BC Alexander the Great came here and part of his army camped here for two years. Later Ashoka ...

... embassy, we never found it. During Ramadan the offices are open only in the morning so there is a small window of opportunity to get things done. We finally gave up on Tajikistan. One of the good things about the Ornate Hotel is that they have wireless internet, although we have to pay 50RP per hour. We spent some time researching on the net and decided to go to Uzbekistan. At first we thought we needed a Letter Of Invitation from a Uzbek ...

... so we were stuck in naran for the night. The next day however, buses were running so we set off at 11am. At 11pm we arrived in Mansera! It was a long, long, hot tedious day. However we made lots of friends along the way who invited us to parties and 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 ...

Charge your glasses, ladies and gentlemen. Mr & Mrs R are back on  tour! It's been a while since our last update - over a year ago from  Azerbaijan. Since then, we've been to South Africa (cricket, natch), but we didn't  much feel like writing about that. We've moved to Leeds. Our new home is a  boat. Mrs R's brain is being taken to the edge of explosion as she studies  towards a PhD. And Mr R's brain is on the verge of implosion as he continues to  work for The Man ...

16.02.05, Islamabad, Pakistan Seit einem Tag bin ich jetzt wieder in Pakistan...und schon sitze ich im Haus eines Pakistanis und schreibe an seinem Computer...nett Ich hatte heute echtes Glueck...um 8:30 Uhr aufgestanden, in Rawalpindi, der Schwesterstadt von Islamabad, und versucht den Bus zum Botschaftsviertel Islamabad zu nehmen... Nur das die oeffentlichen Busse nicht fahrn.."warum denn dass?", frage ich die Pakistanis...hier die Geschichte. Vor einigen ...

... ist. Deswegen haben einge uhren auch sonntag als ersten tag der woche im display. Ich bin hier weil ich die chinesische botschaft besucht habe....visa anschaffen...einfacher als ich dachte.In 6 Tagen kann ichs abholen und sie wollten nur EIN Photo (mehr hatte ich auch net-glueck). Rawal Pindi, auch pindi genannt ist genau das gegenteil...wird zwar schwesterstadt genannt ist aber eher der boese bruder...daten: pindi: 1,5 mio menschen, 150 qkm islamabad ...