--------------------------------------------------------------- a Complete Tour Story
I have been a silent reader for years of Trips and vacations forum and always dreamed of exploring the beauty with my naked eyes... Alhumdulillah by this year, 2014 i ve managed to have 2 trips so far, one of Kaghan valley and one of Kashmir ... and this is the story of my first ever trip to anywhere out of Karachi... Kaghan in 2013..
So here the Story Begins:
We are a group of seven friends whose friendship tenure is more than a Decade, as 5 of us are school mates from class 2 and rest of are from our intermediate classes... so we all 7 are very fond of planning for travelling but unluckily could not have a chance to visit anywhere due to someone's unavailability , someone's permission from home, or someone's bila waja ki problem .... so we kept cancelling our trip from 2009 to 2013 but finally we decided ke jis ne chalna hai chale baaqi sub araam karen..
So in Aug 2013, we 3 Friends finally managed to have our first ever trip to Kaghan. Plan executed in the short period of 2 weeks and we were on our way
Tour Summary:
Day 1: Lambi Khuaari at Karachi Railway station. Intezaar from 4 pm till 12 pm in the night. Train late 10 hours only.
Day 2: Reached Faislabad in night and moved to Pindi late night via Daewoo
Day 3: Reached Pindi then Abottabad then Balakot then Kewai and last at Shogran by 6/7 pm , Night stay there
Day 4: Woke up early in the morning and Witnessed spectacular beauty of Shogran then explored Siri and Paye. After couple of hours moved down to Shogran then Kewai and headed towards Kaghan, Entered Kaghan valley by 5/6 pm and Night stay in Naran
Day 5: Less travelling and More Enjoyment Day , visited Lake Saif ul Malook, crossed lake, spent much time there which resulted thori nouk jhok with boat rider. Back to hotel in Naran.
Day 6: Found a group of 5 guys , those 5 and we 3 rented a jeep for a day and visited Jalkhad, Piyala Jheel, Lulusar Jheel and Lalazar . Day was tiring but tremendously beautiful.
Day 7: Started the return Journey. Left Naran , reached Balakot then Maansehra and then reached Pindi by night.
Day 8: Visited Shah faisal Mosque in the morning , took nap in room and then explored some different beautiful side of Pindi with one of our frnd's relative.
Day 9: Train to Karachi , Train late only only little 2 hours
Day 10: Due to late arrival , train had to stop for other trains moving on time so Allah Allah ker ke we reached our Karachi land by 8/9 pm. Reached our sweet homes around 10 pm and started preparations for next day office
Total Expense
(including taxi fare to Station from Home) : 36,000 / 3 = 12,000 per head
Itna kam kharcha due to we went there in off season , we traveled on local vehicle till it is available, we focused on saaf suthrai of rooms nothing more and most important hum ne khaaney pe hola haat rakha
Our Team:
3 Friends: M. Tariq Umer(me) , M. Adeel Butt and Abdul Rehman,
Luckily we all are beard guys tou raaste mai we were being called Soofi saaheb , Qaari saheb, Molana saheb, Molvi Loug
Cameras Used :
2 sony cybershots and 1 sony xperia Mobile
For complete pictures , u can visit my FB Album https://www.facebook.com/muhammadtariq.umer/media_set?set=a.10152717911087526.767827525&type=3
aur haan aik baat aur most important
Special Thanks to @usmanshafqat Usman , @shaddy890 Shadab and many other travelers who share their stories and inspire to Travel and to Tell Travel in their Thread
here some glimpse of Beauty
First Human Beauty :
Then Natural Beauty:
both above pictures taken at Lulusar Jheel.
Note: Most numerical information gathered by wikipedia.