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

[versitian]

The signaler for the day

It was really fun.

[lovelylovely]

Bhai ye jis ne likha hoga uski aap jesi english ho gi.. haha

Apni to khair hai dada jaisee bhee likhain english winglish but this is one big pakistan department.they give tenders and some one must have been assigned to check every thing before making payments

Or chalo agar mistake ho bhee gaee to kissi ko pakistan railway main taufeeq nahee hoee sahee karwanay kee.

at the end of the days whose money got wasted tax payers and sharmindagi alag.

Karoo complain g.... tussi to railway party already ho.tell ur dad to do something man

[Xoofi]

This is the inside of the mazaar. The caretaker of the mazaar offered us if we want to go inside the grave area (VIP treatment).

[lovelylovely]

This must be fun man

[Xoofi]

After the mazaar, we came out into the bazaar of Khanqah Sharif. It was a very colorful and unique experience to visit the market of this small city. Many people come here to visit the Khanqah thats why the bazaar is somewhat big otherwise the city is just small one.

Artificial Jewelry

The vendor

Cloth shop.. its big

Shoes anyone?

[Xoofi]

The colorful shops and then mouth watering food stalls looked really beautiful. I wanted to spend some time wandering in the bazaar and to observe the daily life activities.. such activity gives me really good feeling but the time was short so we quickly gone through the bazaar towards our car..

Biryani anyone? Looks yummy

People take this as a tabarruk while returning from mazaar

Dahi bhally and fruit chat.. does this bring water in your mouth?

[Xoofi]

Another biryani tower

Halwa, Boondi, Namak Paray, Jalebi & Samoosay

Toys for kids...

[lovelylovely]

this thread looks like a complete "SAFAR NAMA"

u rock man

[Xoofi]

We left Khanqah Sharif at about 12 PM (+/- half hour) and then headed towards Bahawalpur to visit Noor Mehal. We reached there from Khanqah in about half hour. When we entered it, the army didn't allow the DSLRs and kept it with themselves. Also a very small section of the Noor Mehal was opened for public. There was also prohibition on movie making.. only pictures from mobile cameras were allowed.

When DSLR was kept, I lost interest in taking pics because my mobile camera sucks.. what good can you expect from an Huawei Ascend I took only a few pics from my mobile.. (half of them got blurred).. only sharing a couple of pics just to mark the presence at Noor Mehal

The inside of the Mehal was maintained quite well. There was a museum which had pictures and all the history of the Nawabs of Bahawalpur.

We only spent about half hour there and then left..

[Xoofi]

After Noor Mehal.. we had to visit Lal Sohanra National Park which is about an hour drive from Bahawalpur. But before heading towards Lal Sohanra.. my another relative in Bahawalpur (Nadeem Bhai) insisted to visit his house for lunch.. I couldn't say no so we all headed towards his home where we had lunch. We spent about an hour there and then moved towards Lal Sohanra.

[Xoofi]

After we were done with the lunch, we headed towards Lal Sohanra Park. While going, we saw Darbar Mahal with hasrat bhari nigahain only as it passed. The road to Lal Sohanra is under construction but the good thing is that a big portion is already completed and fast work is going on the remaining part. We reached Lal Sohanra in less than an hour and now we have about 2.5 hours of daylight left to explore the park which was quite enough..

[versitian]

Some pics of Noor Mehal from my side.

[versitian]

Nawabs of bahawalpur..

[aks_e_ahmed]

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.

And what Mani bhai felt in the quarter when you leave him alone at night
My cell phone also fall from 5 feet height twice during charging at night there were definitely something strange

[aks_e_ahmed]

There is a road that connects Samma Satta to Bahawalpur and its awesome metaled one. There was no fog while we went to pick @aks_e_ahmed from Bahawalpur. We reached Faisal Movers station and in about 10 minutes his bus also reached. We picked him up.. and soon he needed some cleanup as a kid vomited on him in the bus

Now chit chat started and we decided to have a kashmiri tea before heading back to Samma Satta. So we found a random kashmiri tea/soup shop near Fawara Chowk Bahawalpur and enjoyed hot drinks in cool weather. Adeel also told us summary about his Swat trip.

Soon around midnight, we started journey back to Samma Satta. Now the situation was completely changed. There was fog falling on the road. This scene can not be described in words. @mdani who was driving at the moment was the most stunned person

After a careful drive, we reached back to quarter in Samma Satta and called it a night..

It Was really tasty tea but after drink tea thela keeper bring 3 Chuwaras for us I asked him bhai ye kia hy he replied ye hum as a gift dete hain I guess he did not realize that we all are Kanwara party and eating chuwara in night not good for us

[aks_e_ahmed]

Adeel @aks_e_ahmed busy in photography at Railway crossing

This is what i was capturing

[aks_e_ahmed]

Another biryani tower

Halwa, Boondi, Namak Paray, Jalebi & Samoosay

Toys for kids...

Nice photographs of bazar sufian

[aks_e_ahmed]

After Noor Mehal.. we had to visit Lal Sohanra National Park which is about an hour drive from Bahawalpur. But before heading towards Lal Sohanra.. my another relative in Bahawalpur (Nadeem Bhai) insisted to visit his house for lunch.. I couldn't say no so we all headed towards his home where we had lunch. We spent about an hour there and then moved towards Lal Sohanra.

Nadeem bhai such a WOnderful & Jolly personality I can never forget his company

[versitian]

Nadeem bhai such a WOnderful & Jolly personality I can never forget his company

Soon we will visit him in karachi. be prepare adeel.

[aks_e_ahmed]

Soon we will visit him in karachi. be prepare adeel.

I am ready boss