Category: tourist spots

Overview: I am always intrigued / tempted to visit mountains, maybe because I am a Capricorn; the mountain goat who believes in rising to the top by taking slow and steady yet cautious steps to reach to the summit. Visiting mountains is one of the …

Overview: As I mentioned in Part – I of this article earlier, I thus set up again to visit the Margalla Mountains for the second time in a fortnight on the 3rd of July 2010 to Pir Sohawa with my happy go lucky family. This …

Overview: We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. …

The last time that I travelled to the ‘Switzerland of the East’, yes SWAT was in 1986 when I could not meet my pen friend in Peshawar after travelling for 35 hours from Karachi in ‘Khyber Mail’ probably the slowest train in Pakistan then and …

I have been thinking of writing about „The Rohtas fort‟ for some time now where I have been at least thrice since my stay in Islamabad but then the thought came to my mind that since I have a fan readership of a little over …

I have recently read Greg Mortenson’s ‘Three cups of tea’ and was religiously moved and overwhelmingly amazed to read this book whereby an American mountaineer could teach us so much about the mountains of Pakistan in general and life in particular; just in 349 pages …