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Mon, 1 Oct 2007 | By damonlk | Views [1047] | Comments [3]
The twin cities of Islamabad/ Rawalpindi sit about 300 km northwest of Lahore on the edge of both the NWFP [North West Frontier Province, a rag tag collection of government control and autonomous tribal areas] and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan’s ... Read more >
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [993]
Shakeel is fifteen years old. His father, Mr. Haneef, is the chowkidar [caretaker] at the hostel I stay in. In any case they live together in a small flat at the back of the complex with their mother, two brothers, Shan and Adeel, age 7 and ... Read more >
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Mon, 17 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [822]
Regrettably, for the animal involved that is, the principle ingredient of the brush used by miniature painters are hairs taken from the tail of a squirrel. Preferably a young one, but given the speed and agility of all such animals any caught squirrel ... Read more >
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Mon, 10 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [817] | Comments [3]
Classes have not begun, but the curriculum has been planned, as much as possible, and the 120 odd students met Saturday morning at orientation. Much of the time was given over to insisting that the students not smoke in class, and that medical ... Read more >
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Mon, 3 Sep 2007 | By damonlk | Views [1167] | Comments [2]
And so ends the first week in Lahore. It’s coming to the end of summer, so the heat is slowly abating, or at least I am acclimatising after that sudden jump from Melbourne winter. Of course what remains – 30 degrees at 9am – is still enough ... Read more >
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ye-travels | Views [2030]
There is only one legal international border crossing between Pakistan and India and it sits in the Punjab province of each country (at partition Punjab was split in two). Its an easy trip from Delhi on a speedy day train or a slow night train at less ... Read more >
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Sun, 1 Jul 2007 | By ye-travels | Views [3025]
Lahore is a huge, busy, modern city and when we were there it was also really hot. We decided we would stay only two nights, so we packed our days in an attempt to experience the most of the city. Our first stop was the Lahore Museum, which I only ... Read more >
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Sat, 12 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [1371] | Comments [6]
60km from the Afgahn border, at Peswar city. Historical city, Peswar was ground for some famous explorers, conquerors, and tyrans - Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, Genghis Khan, Timur, Bakur, and ME, Rodrigo The Stubborn. Peswar is famous for being ... Read more >
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Wed, 2 May 2007 | By mutt | Views [1881] | Comments [5]
My last days in India were in Amritsar, 30km away from the Pakistane border. Amritsar is a a city known for it´s large Sikh population and it´s temple - Golden Temple. Incredible! The temple is a number of buildings surrounding this man-made pool where ... Read more >
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Tue, 27 Feb 2007 | By kokoricooo | Views [798] | Comments [1]
Sufism is the mystic way of Islam. I got introduced to it's magical music in Rajasthan, and I just fell in love with it. I am actually also tired of India, and i wanted to find my next destination . I was thinking about Burma, China, Pakistan and ... Read more >
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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [5573] | Comments [9]
The Karakoram Highway blasts its way through some of the world's largest mountains and snakes its way north from Islamabad to the Chinese border. It is a remarkable feat of Pakistani army engineering - arching along impossibly steep slopes, skirting ... Read more >
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Tue, 25 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 24 Jul 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [1691]
So its time for us to get out of India and of to Pakistan but before we do there is one more pace to visit Amritser the home of the Golden Temple, this place beats the Taj hands down not only is it free to enter (Taj 750 rupees!!!) but there is free ... Read more >
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