Pearl Continental Islamabad

... where we find a great (camping) spot on the beach! The views are amazing; we decide to stay here for the night. This evening Maarten-Jan decides it is time to air his paper balloon; however the strong wind makes it crash and land! We talk, learning some new student turbo talk like HULDE! and play cards till late in the night, with the wood burner working....on Yak ****! Nice and warm with an interesting smell ;-)) Ron thanks for your welding work, the wood burner is working perfectly ...

Took a flight back to Islamabad. <br><br>This journey was no means a holiday but an expedition. Needing high levels of endurance. This was a dream come true for me. Foot loose &amp; fancy free in the wild &amp; untamed Karakoram. Some thing that I'll cherish for ever. <br><br>Conclusion<br><br>We were very impressed with the meals we were served and ...

... usually interesting! So onto my flight, I went to the PIA office and was told that there haven't been flights for around a week - I had been warned of this because it's a difficult route and the weather is notoriously bad over the high passes. Still I booked the next available flight and kept my fingers crossed. On the morning of the flight I left at the crack of dawn, made my way to the airport, checked in and waited anxiously at the gate with the other passengers ...

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 ...

early we packed our rucksacks and start our trek to mukspuri. this is a trek of about 8km and easy to go with. it is known as one of the most beautifull short family treks of pakistan. we start the trek from khanuspur, reached Ayubia, bypasses it ...

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 ...

... was well known though through the records of Greek and Chinese travelers and historians. With the exception of Alexander and Darius we'd never heard of any of these people before; well maybe they were mentioned in our World History classes but we knew they wouldn't be on the final exam. It was very interesting and we are really glad we saw it. It is a very important piece of the big puzzle. If all goes right and our visas are ready we'll take the train to Peshawar tomorrow.

... a short cut thru a ditch to get past the stuck jeep. Of course resulting in our jeep getting stuck even worse than the one in front! 90 mins later we were all back on the road and heading for Naran again. 5 km from Naran we stopped in the middle of hicksville for a 1 hr lunch break at 5pm! At 6.30 we fianally got to Naran and got straight on a minibus for mansera, 120km away and on the main rd to the capital. After 30 mins our bus turned around due to landslides blocking the ...

... amp; Mrs R. A loud explosion and a  scattering of debris had us fearing the worst. As Mr R's thoughts  turned to the end of the cricket, the team being sent home and us spending the  remainder of our 2 weeks avoiding terrorists in the back of a rickshaw, a police  officer appeared behind us, brandishing his stick and uttering the mysterious  words, "Pepsi gas overload". And very perceptive he was too. After 15  minutes of chaos around the crime scene - Trescothick and ...

... etc sind noch komplizierter...ma guckn, ihr koennt ja Wetten abschliessen, ich mach den makler...einfach mail an mich :) So, jetzt is der pakistani vom einkaufen zurueck...er will lecker fuer mich kochen...hehe, deswegen mag ich die pakistanis...sie sind so wunderbar gastfreundlich...wenn ich zurueck nach Dtl. komme werde ich auch so, versprochen...wenn ein reisender ne Unterkunft braucht der das hier liesst einfach Mail schick dann klappt das schon...