Road Trip Across Sindh & South Punjab (December 2014) - [KTG]

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Ding Dong...!

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Inteha ho gayi intezar ki ayi na kuch khabar meray yaar ki....??

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@xoofi what happend bro
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This is a very interesting thread. Aap ki mazeed posts ka muntazir....besabri se!

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[Xoofi]

Xoofi bhai thread khatam kar kay jana...

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Aise kaise ja sakte ho bhai.... yeh tou rivayat ke khilaaf hojaega .... to leave a thread uncompleted

Sorry bro

Sufian Bhai, Mansoor Bhai & and other fellows,

Great informative thread by you. Congrats.

Regards,

Thanks Sir

Looks like a good fun trip, exploring new places must be exciting and learning. Nice clicks too specially the airborne one and it seems like all dropped in the middle of the road in very next shot. KIU

Thanks brother and very good observation

Its good to see that you spent a considerable time in the area which is normally ignored by us all.
Thanks for letting every body know what are the attractions of upper Sindh.

Thanks a lot Ali bhai. Yes most people were like... is trip ke lye 6 din? but we know how much we enjoyed and explored

Zabardast

Thanks

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Inteha ho gayi intezar ki ayi na kuch khabar meray yaar ki....??

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@Xoofi what happend bro
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Sorry bro.. went to Lahore for 10 days in between. Didn't had time to update. Will resume now.

This is a very interesting thread. Aap ki mazeed posts ka muntazir....besabri se!

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Thanks bro Posts resuming now..

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As we were departing from Imtiaz sb place, he said why not you visit the "7 bibi mazar" which is present just 10 minutes from his place in Rohri. We are in constant hunt of new places so how could we say no.. He sent his bro who guided us on a bike to "7 bibi mazar" which is known as "Satin jo Aastano" which I googled later.

As we reached there, we have to climb stairs to reach the top. As we reached top, a caretaker of mazar came to us and told us the story/legend behind those monuments.

From up, we get excellent view of River Indus and Lansdowne Bridge Rohri. After spending about 15 minutes there, we came back and boarded our car. Said goodbye to Imtiaz sb bro and took the road which takes us to National Highway.

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Satin jo aastano monuments and Lansdowne Bridge Rohri

Bank of River Indus and a cultivated field

The Bridge

Sadhu Bela also visible.

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Boat in hunt of fish..

Disappearing behind tree

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Soon we were on National Highway again.. The road was in pathetic condition but one thing was satisfactory that work was in progress very fast so hopefully by the end of this year, roads in Sindh will be as good as in Punjab.

Apart from road, there was another problem and it was the sugarcane trollies that blocked the road every now and then. This really slowed our journey.

Also saw some accidents in between

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By 12 in noon, we reached the Sindh-Punjab border. At border, the rangers searched our vehicle as a routine check and we were allowed to enter in Punjab.

As soon as we entered Punjab, the road was better. Although no the best, but the diversion problem wasn't there so now we could catch up some speed.

Meanwhile we were also informed that Adeel ( @aks_e_ahmed ) will join us for the remaining trip in the evening at Bahawalpur. He had already boarded Faisal Movers from Rawalpindi in the morning

Since it was jumma today, we stopped at a beautiful truck hotel near Rahim Yar Khan to offer prayers. The hotel was deserted, there was no one present there. But its mosque was really beautiful. We offered prayers and moved..

Our next destination was Uch Sharif and eventually we had to reach Samma Satta by evening.

Truck hotel near Rahim Yar Khan

A beautiful mosque

Interior of the mosque

[Xoofi]

Somewhere around 2 PM, we had lunch craving so immediately we pulled over to a good looking roadside hotel near Iqbalabad.

It was a recently opened restaurant/truck hotel. It looked quite unique from the outside. There was great bamboo work done and hotel's name was "International Chappar Hotel" according to this look..

After stretching, we seated in hotel and there comes the tough part of what to order

Our car resting in front of hotel

The mosque

Restaurant owner's smart kid really wanted me to take his picture

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Seated and thinking what to order A typical seating of a truck hotel

Enjoying the road trip

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Finally, we ordered Mutton rosh (the specialty), a daal and a sabzi.. Later we also ordered a Chicken Biryani on recommendation of restaurant owner which was also very delicious.

Everything was so delicious or it was the road and environment which automatically enhances the taste of everything including daaal which we normally don't prefer in regular routine

Look at that rosh.. looks yummy

[Xoofi]

Soon after the lunch, the cold drink arrived. It was a themed Coke and coincidentally it said.. "Share a coke with Yaars" This really fits in the type of journey we were having

After we were done with sumptuous lunch, we were moving again.. Our next destination was Uch Sharif.

[Xoofi]

By 4 PM, we reached Tarinda from where a beautiful road leads to Alipur and ahead. I had traveled on this road before during my 2012 Cholistan Desert Trip from Lallu wali Mori to Head Panjanad.

When we were moving towards Uch. I suggested why not visit Head Panjanad (Junction of 5 rivers) also which will be just 15 minutes drive from Uch Sharif. Everyone agreed and we went to Head Panjanad first. Soon we reached there and enjoyed the cool breeze. It was not allowed to go upstairs (although we went upstairs in 2012 and no one objected). After having a brief visit, we headed back to Lallu wali mori to enter Uch Sharif

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We did not know the exact route to the shrines inside Uch Sharif, neither it was marked on Google Maps. So we entered Uch Sharif city which was a mistake as we almost got stuck in busy market of Uch. Anyway, after wasting about half hour and asking from many people, we reached the mausoleum of Hazrat Jalal ud Din Bukhari Surkh Posh and Bibi Jiwandi (great granddaughter of Jalal ud Din Bukhari). There are also remains of Bahawal Halim and Ustad Nurya

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Inside the tomb, there are too many small graves unnamed.

And several others which I believe are the followers do Hazrat Surkh Posh

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There is this mosque inside the mazar. The care taker of this mosque give special attention to tourists and then demand money in such a sweet emotional blackmailing. He told us that one of the pillar of this mosque comes from Arsh-e-Mualla but it is unknown which one.. so people embrace each pillar. We infact saw many people doing this.. Allah knows better..

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After visiting Hazrat Surakh Posh mazar, we asked directions from a person to Bibi Jawindi mazar which was after a little hike through the graveyard and soon we have this excellent architecture of Bibi Jiwandi mazar. However, to our amazement, the mazar was completely destroyed from the other side and it was supported by pillars.

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It was getting dark fast so we briefly visited the shrines and then left. Now we got a better way to connect to main road (N115) which could have saved us our half hour while coming.

Now the light was almost gone. Instead of going back to Tarinda.. we went inside Uch again from Lallu wali mori and took AhmedPur East Road which will eventually take us back to N5 (National Highway) at Ahmed Pur East.

Soon we connected to National Highway and then headed towards Samma Satta (A small city before Bahawalpur).

In Samma Satta, my cousin (Akhter) was waiting for us as we will be his guests for the next 2 days. We reached Samma Satta around 8:30 PM. We were too late. He welcomed us and soon we had our dinner which was an excellent Chicken Qorma and Siwaiiyan.. followed by a hot cup of tea. (Sorry no pictures of these events)..

Our staying arrangement was in Samma Satta city (a small city or you can say an advanced village) which is couple kilometers away from his home in village. The quarter where we were staying is also allocated to my cousin from Pakistan Railways (He is employee there). It was a small quarter, nothing fancy.. but then again, we were here to enjoy this mahol There were only us in that quarter because their family chose to live in village instead of this quarter.

After we got a bit relaxed, we left Mani in the quarter and moved towards Bahawalpur to pick @aks_e_ahmed who was about to reach Bahawalpur.