National Hotel Lahore

... ) CHF 20 Taxi for a day including approx. 100km CHF 20 for a VIP bus ticket from Gilgit to Islamabad (600km, 20 hours) CHF 30  per night for a large and clean room in Indus hotel (Lahore – best location incl breakfast) I like it! ;) ...

... in Multan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3760830.stm I noticed that they immediately upped security in the hotel in Lahore because when I returned from supper that night, there was a guy with a machine gun sat outside the elevators on my ...

... the gardens that used to decorate the base of the walls are in disrepair, used as a rubbish tip and wasteland. Many people in Lahore can't understand how a country that spends so much on its defence budget can not afford to preserve its national ...

... Midnight is "when the real show begins". Maybe it's because I've seen way too many episodes of "Locked-Up Abroad" on the National Geographic channel, which by the way I've subtitled, "When Stupid White People Go on Vacation" --or perhaps it's because I'm ...

... , parts of it are still used by the Indian military.  Those parts are off limits. We enter the fort through the Lahore Gate after passing through security.  (I find out later that the Indians take security very seriously.  The fort was the ...

... horses, camels. He was an amazing driver. He had the patience of a Melbourne Tram Driver.    We parked outside the Lahore gate at The Red Fort.. Had a few photos here then boarded a pedal rickshaw for a ride through Chandni Chowk. These ...

... pretty impressive from the outside, the walls extend for 2km and was built in the 1600's. We entered from the main entrance called Lahore gate as it faces Lahore in Pakistan. We walked around the grounds and saw some different halls  where the ...

... the arid and mountainous landscape gave way to more lush river valleys before our plane crossed into India, somewhere between Quetta and Lahore.  The view from the plane turned quite poor, and it wasn't until we were well into our descent that we ...

... nbsp; We headed north past Halifax, then turned east skirting Reykjavik, then headed south past Moscow, through Kazakhstan, and past Kabul and Lahore. Also this was my first time on a 777.  Great plane! You can definitely see, smell and feel (slight ...

... Claridge for me." Mona had stayed there on her way to visit her daughter and family 20 years before when they worked in Lahore, Pakistan. What didn't Norie and I visit! We saw the prosaically named but splendid Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, the Lodi Garden, ...

... spit and wee and everything else in-between I made my way there and bought a ticket.    I walked through the Lahore Gate and passed through the bazaar - shops either side selling Indian crafts and jewelry.   It led through to the ...

After my first few days in Delhi i feel a bit more comfortable and not anymore that scared by such a massive, hectic & chaotic city such as Delhi.. I was ready to venture out on my own & face some of it's ...

... but that wasn't going to stop us!!  What you can almost see in the picture is the main entrance to the Red Fort the Lahore Gate.  Once inside you think the gauntlet of hawkers is over but no - now you have to run the gauntlet of stall holders ...

... in Delhi, 1.5 K's cost just under $20:00. We told them that they were more expensive than London to Melbourne and way more than Lahore Melbourne. They laughed at us and basically told us to fuck off !!! So we paid and did. We also lined up for some ...

... . We packed our stuff and went straight to sleep.   Friday we had to get up at 4am to take a bus from Delhi to Lahore. I thought it was really going to suck because it was 12 hours and the bus we saw there when we booked the tickets was really ...

... ; After the fort we watch a big crowd gather to watch a group of what were probably Bollywood dancers performing in front of the Lahore Gate - it looked wise not to get too close to the action though as while waiting for out taxi I watched a cop wrapping ...

... filho Aurangzeb.             O principal portal de entrada do forte se chama Lahore Gate, pois aponta pra cidade de Lahore, hoje no Paquistão. Este portal é um poderoso símbolo da Índia moderna, ...

... even watch much cricket but I was so into that game - all frustrations having been channeled into it, plus the whole national pride thing. Australians take their cricket seriously, especially some cousins I know. Went to bed pretty upset with Paharganj ...

... store so I could purchase a multi-national adaptor and the first thing I saw was an electronics store with multi-national adaptors.   I'm not saying a more superior airport doesn't exist somewhere else on this planet (I'm ...

... my last full day in Delhi and I returned to the Old City to walk around Chandni Chowk (the main street running from the Lahore Gate of the Red Fort to Fatehpuri Masjid). Upon arriving to the street’s entrance, my driver said that the area was ...