Salam every one
From quite some time I am eagerly seeing post on Pakwheels by different traveler all around Pakistan who are doing great effort to portray beauty of Pakistan with the help of Pak wheels road trip forum.
I have been to Swat valley and Kaghan valley back in the year 2002 with KU friends and then in the year 2004 with my spouse on Honey moon trip. Explore the valleys till Kandol Lake in swat and Lalazar in Kaghan valleys by covering all the famous location i.e. kalam Utror Usho and Shogran Sripaye etc. On both occasion used public transport Train, high roof and jeeps.
From time to time explore different areas like sehwan larkana in Sindh and Kund Malir and Gawadar (Recently in August 2016 will share the pic and detail in next post). But the desire of road trip a long trip with friends is always in my heart and mind and I am waiting for an opportunity to fulfill this wish of mine
Being a Banker (Auditor) by profession used to busy in different assignment and couldn?t get enough time, to cut the story short, the desire of road trip to northern area will become more intensive when I calculated Ashura holidays soon after Eid- ul- Azha and came to know that single holiday on Monday 10[SUP]th[/SUP] October will give me 5 days holiday from Friday to Wednesday and this is the best time to explore anything either in swat or Kaghan as this is off-season no summer vacation no Eid etc.
Discussed with my colleague and surprisingly my boss told me that we have to conduct a full day training session at Rahim yar Khan in October and this plan will workable we will continue our journey from Rahim yar khan to any suitable location further, so we schedule our training session on Saturday 10[SUP]th[/SUP] October to cover the half distance and accommodation at Bank Expense and further from our pockets. and achieve our target to return back home on 10[SUP]th[/SUP] Moharram so we join office next day.
Finally we decide to see Shogran Sripaye by7 covering Mansehra Balakot adjoining beauties due to easy accessibility and better road condition. The only Hurdle is that we have only two drivers for the entire road trip I and my boss (with weak eyesight) but this problem solve when I decided to ride the car in nights and my boss in daytime. As we have to travel a lot continuously if we have to explore Sripaye from Karachi in 4 days.
And finally by the grace of god we all four colleague *** friend hit the road on 07[SUP]th[/SUP] October after Friday prayers
The detail of Road trip is as follow:
Participants:
1. Shahg (Myself)
2. Mr. Fasih (My Boss a man with long beard)
3. Azmat (Adminstrator of the trip)
4. Arslan (Photgrapher of the Trip)
Departure Route
Rahim yar khan ? Bahawlpur ? Multan- Shorkot ?Jhang- Faislabad bye pass- Pindi Bhattian Burhan Interchange Hasan Abdal haripur Abbotabad Mansehra Balakot Shogran.
After Multan Road is single but good enough to maintan 120Km speed till pindi bhattiyan interchange and after that all know that road is excellent till Kiwai.
Arrival route
Same till Burhan Interchange then motorway till Lahore Multan Road ? the we took GT road and travel through Sahiwal due to URS at Pakpattan we experienced little bit traffic however due to Moharram very low traffic on this road and we travelled straight till Multan and the turn to Muzaffargarh ?Alipur (to see my friend and village life ) ? Uch Sharif ? Tirnada Mohamamed ? RYK ? Sadiqbad straight till Karachi
Due to construction at KHI ? HYD motorway the travel time is around 3 hour or 3.5 hour in very low traffic as there?re number of diversion.
While coming back we covered the distance from HYD ? KHI in 3 hour as its seem that only our car is traveling on the road as mostly the road is empty
Vehicle Used
Honda City 2016 with 7000 KM on ODO before trip (thanks to Boss)
Camera:
IPhone 6
Huawei Honor
Total Cost
Transportation: 20000/- almost
Fuel Cost 18000 in Honda City out of which khi- ryk-khi will be reimburse by our lovely bank
Jeep cost 2000 Shogran ? Sripaye
Accommodation; 5000/-
Faran Hotel ? 4000
Faisal Hotel ? 1000
Rest we drive the car in nights and stayed at Dhabas if needed
Foods Drink Water cost almost 10000/-
Total Cost ? 40000 almost
This is my first Trip so not perfectly written or explained Picture are good enough but not excellent sometime.
Day By Day journey will be share along with Pics in detail here is the brief explanation of the same.
Day 1.
Left KHI from Caf? Piyala gulberg at 2.30 Pm and reached RYK at 2am stayed at Hotel faran for Rs 4000/- good hotel at bank expense.
Day 2:
Attended Training session at Desert Palm Hotel I think the best hotel in RYK till 4 pm and left RYK for an long journey to Abbottabad. As soon I start the car I decided that it will stop inshalah somewhere near Islamabad and exactly the same is happen. As we stop for fajr prayer at kalarkahar intersection where I slept for about 30min in a Mosque adjacent to pump.
Day 3 : Arrive in Abbottabad at 12pm after driving continuously whole night with few stop of nature call and Tea break. We then had lunch at Abbottabad in roadside hotel don?t remember the name exactly and then travelled straight to shogran.
Road from kiwai to shogran is in very bad shape although it?s around 12 or 13 km but it took very pain to reach at shogran. We reached shogran at 4pm and Stayed at Faisal Hotel in shogran for Rs 1000/- only good hotel in cheap rate for LONDA?S as Pine Park and Lalazar Hotel are almost asking 6000/ to accommodate four person. We all were tired enough so we took some rest and at 5pm we explore shogran famous point and bazar and slept early at 8pm I think.
Day 4 : Wake up at 5am offer Fajr prayer and book Jeep for Sripaye immediately as we want to see Sripaye in fajr time reached Sripaye in half an hour had fantastic Breakfast over there and return back to Shogran at 9am to start our journey to Karachi. Left shogran at 10am after pack up everything reached Abbottabad at 1pm. stayed at father friend for lunch and then start again our journey at 5pm for Alipur Muzaffargarh. Continuously travel via motorway and GT road whole night
Day 5: at 11 am arrive at Alipur city where my friend welcome at bypass and then went 15km far to reach his village Khairpur sadat. Had great time at his village spent almost 5hour from 12 to 5Pm had lunch excellent lunch and tea in between and some pic of village life then start our journey to home. Finally Reached Karachi at 5am in the morning of 10[SUP]th[/SUP] Moharram.
Thanks God for our safe and sound trip.
Let the pics speak for rest of the trip will explain every day in detail