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So it happened at last, the hike in Margalla, though I did only 20% of the track (thanks to my city-boy stamina and shortage of time), it was a memorable walk. It was also my first walk that I did on all fours (yes, used my hands a lot) since my childhood :P</div>
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I wanted to go on Trail 5 because I heard there is a water spring there. But eventually went on Trail 3 because it's used most, due to safety reason, because the night was coming and I didn't want my brother (who is in photos) to be eaten by leopards. 
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This is the parking of Trail 3, there were significant number of vehicles parked.</div>
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The start of the feet of Margalla.<br />
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My brother studying the map to decide our vertical limit 
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This is the track, pretty exciting, with shrubs and trees all along.<br />
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Love this arch of trees, over shadowing us.<br />
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The melancholic light..<br />
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Getting dark here.<br />
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I'm infamous for not showing my face in photos 
<br />Here I'm holding a bottle of water in black plastic bag. I didn't only bring that bottle and shopper back but also picked some wrappers and bottles dropped by others on the trail. I did the same in Ayubia National Park, people may wonder but I can't see Nature getting filthy by the ignorant.<br />
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Isn't it pretty?<br />
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This trail was frequented by ladies, kids and people of every age. A good thing was there were no chhichoray (cheap) guys around, perhaps their hochha-pan (a.k.a lafantri) was curbed by the climb :P<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qhDGs215gg/U14JTpaHVrI/AAAAAAAADhk/CimHMFb9FKA/s3000/IMG_8755.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9qhDGs215gg/U14JTpaHVrI/AAAAAAAADhk/CimHMFb9FKA/s900/IMG_8755.JPG" /></a></div>
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Don't get fooled by this. It was a very steep, very hard track where I went on all fours, took a lot of time too. Actually this is not the trail, but a seasonal water way I guess. But some other people took it too. We took it for fun and it really tested the limits of our short stamina.<br />
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Those girls tried to come up but eventually dropped the idea because it was too steep and dangerous for them. There were small stones all over the path and you could easily get slipped down.<br />
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He's got some strength, but I'm feeling like a broiler (kukkar) chicken. :(<br />
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Islamabad is a big park.<br />
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You can see those gals coming but they abandoned it later.<br />
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Rawal Lake in the background and the mountains which I crossed for <a href="http://qadeerahmadjanjua.blogspot.com/2014/04/islamabad-to-kotli-sattiyan-2014-april.html">Kotli Sattiyan</a>.<br />
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The Centaurus and other towers of Blue Area.<br />
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Took the shot at just below the rest point number two.<br />
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The Sun is just about to set.<br />
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This was the trail that we should have took, it kept winding around the track taken by us. This trail is quite easy.<br />
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Now the noise of the city has faded and you can hear sweat chirping of birds.<br />
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People were offering Asr prayer at the rest point. There were some monkeys in the jungle too :P<br />
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These layers of mountains look like some fantasy.<br />
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