Shalimar Hotel Islamabad

... make our way up and up into the ShanTien Mountains to the border of China. The road is full of holes, so we are speeding up at 20km/hour with fear for Frits' health every time I hear a huge bang from the back axle getting another blow! As it getting dark we have to find a place to park for the night, an abandoned house at a lake seems the only thing possible. At high speed we try to collect as much Yak **** as possible to get the wood burner going, making our way through snow and ...

... As a precaution, water and soups were treated with Sweetwater (sodium hypochlorite) and/or a Steripen, a device that uses ultraviolet light to zap the bad stuff. Even though our water was boiled, they took this extra precaution since it is hard to fully boil water at altitude.<br><br>All in all, I think this trip couldn't have gone much better. Our ...

... I didn't want to impose on P any more and in fact Rawelpindi was a bit closer to the airport so I decided to go back there for a night. Back in my usual hotel in Pindi I was happy to see the guy working there that I'd chatted to on the previous trips. We had a nice evening catching up over a couple of glasses of secret whiskey and I also bumped into another traveller I'd met here before that had since become attached to a local girl - I think he'll be staying a bit longer!

... from Karachi and I also knew that alot of the Western buildings and places to stay were the target for bombs. (you probably saw recently in the news about the Marriott Hotel being blown up, this was one of the only places in the city you could get alcohol) When in Islamabad I went straight to the embassy. The embassy was for Afghanistan...yes Afghanistan. Being so close, much as with Kazakhstan when in China, I feel it would be sad to miss the opportunity to ...

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 ...

... in F6 which was Super Market and found this nice internet cafe in LP. There isn't really much to see in the capital. I didn't want to go to the administration centre in the east as it's a ticking time bomb. No plans for this evening, just gonna take things easy...get some snacks and get some cold drinks and maybe walk to the mosque to have a close-up view of the biggest mosque in Asia. Going to Rawalpindi tomorrow. The only reason I want to go there is to see the truck workshop.

... night. Our LP Pakistan travel guide said it was supposed to cost only 1800RP, but the prices must have gone up -- way up. Anyway, we needed a nice place to celebrate our wedding anniversary ¬¬- yes, our anniversary on the road. Too bad we can't get a bottle of bubbly. Our blood alcohol level is dangerously low. We have ended up staying in Islamabad so long because we have to get visas sorted out for out onward journey. Arriving on a Friday did ...

... am we arrived. Only to find that all the hotels in Rawalpindi were rat infested dives, overpriced or full. The biggest difficulty we ve found travelling in Pakistan is finding decent accomodation. You actually have to demand clean sheets and batrooms, the standards are truely gruesome. By 3.45 am we still were homeless so we decided we\d try the hotels in Islamabad 10 kms away. We had a rest at the taxi stand and left for Islamabad at 5am since it wouldn\t be worth paying for ...

... basic  message from the Fat Controller's press conference that evening. By start of  play on Day 4, all Pepsi vendors (and cannisters) had been removed from the  stadium. They'd also evicted the Wall's ice-creams, Pizza Hut chicken tikka  deep-pans and KFC's deep-fried filth, along with all other potentially hazardous  foods. The last test is in Lahore - a dusty city - starting on Tuesday. The  dust, smog and noise seems to be an unavoidable feature of town-living in ...

... 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 ...