Dear Pakwheel fellows,
This is my first thread in this forum. I used to visit pakwheels forums since long and now Alhamdulillah with the mercy of God and by the help of pakwheel gurus I have done my first tour to naran,saif ul malook, ansoo lake, shogran, murree etc.
We were five friends from Karachi. We started our journey on 28[SUP]th[/SUP] June 2013 by business train at 3.30 p.m.
Total no of days 9
Cost per person Rs 28000
No of persons 5
Journey by business train is comfortable. The main advantage is that it always go on time and you don’t have to wait 12 hrs or more as routine now a days.
We reached Lahore in the morning at around 9 am. One of our friend wanted to see Lahore so that after taking break fast we hired a taxi in Rs 1200/- for visiting badshahi masjid, Lahore fort and Shahi Qila.
After that the taxi dropped us at bus stand for taking bus for Abbottabad but unfortunately there was no bus going direct to Abbottabad in the afternoon. So we took pindi bus from Niazi stand and then from pindi we hire private hi roof at Rs 2000 for Abbottabad. Night stay at Abbottabad hotel @ 1000/night
Next morning we left for balakot on private hi roof @ 1500 and then hire a Jeep from balakot @ 2500 for Naran. Stay 1 hr at kewai for tea and refreshments.
We reached naran in the evening. Initially our plan was to stay in camps and one night at saif ul malook but when we reached naran some locals told us that since two or three days it is raining in the night. So we cancelled our plan to stay in camps/tent and hired one room @ 2000 /day in Main naran bazaar for three days.
We pay 7200 to jeep driver (Zahid) for one full day to saif ul malook and one day lalazar+lalusar lake.