So I always had a fascination about visiting the South side of the country, i know a lot of people prefer to go to Mountains for vacations but there is certain things to be said on visiting to the south.
We were 2 person travelling in our own car, we used Honda Civic reborn for this.
So here was the tour plan:
- Day 1 - Left Wah, entered motorway from Islamabad interchange and reached Multan.
- Day 2 - Night stay at Multan, left towards sukkur, then sukkur to Jamshoro, then to Karachi
- Day 3 - Night Stay at Karachi, explored Karachi, left towards Hyderabad.
- Day 4 - Night Stay at Hyderabad, explored both Sukkur and Hyderabad, then towards Multan
- Day 5 - Night Stay at Multan, explored Multan, left for Faisalabad.
- Day 6 - Night stay at Faisalabad, explored Faisalabad, left to reach back Wah.
Visited following sites during the tour:
- Frere Hall (Karachi)
- Teen Talwar (Karachi)
- Mohata Palace (Karachi)
- Clifton Beach (Karachi)
- Dolmen mall (Karachi)
- Do Drya (Karachi)
- PAF Museum (Karachi)
- Sindh Museum (Hyderabad)
- Dates Farms (Kairpur)
- Sukkur Barrage (Sukkur)
- Blind Dolphins (Sukkur)
- Sadhu bela Mandir (Sukkur)
- Lansdowne Bridge (Sukkur)
- Shah Rukn-e-Alam Tomb (Multan)
- Clock Tower (Multan)
- Multan Art gallery (Multan)
- Clock Tower (Faisalabad)
- 8 Bazaars (Faisalabad)
- Mustard Farms (Faisalabad)
- Lyallpur Galeria (Faisalabad)
- Titanic Resort (Faisalabad)
- Allama Iqbal Industrial City (Faisalabad)
Cuisines:
- Multani BBQ
- Karachi Biryani
- Karachi Rabri
- Moro's Gauvas
- Khairpur Dates
- Multani Daal (Very delicious)
- Multani Rewari sweets
- Hyderabadi Chicken Karachi
- Faisalabadi Ice cream falooda
- Faisalabadi Daal Chaawal
Highways Travelled:
- Motorway from Islamabad to Sukkur
- N5 Sukkur to Moro
- N55 Dadu to Jamshoro
- Motorway Hyderabad to Karachi
Things to note are:
- Motorways are perfect
- N5 was Ok but due to sugarcane harvest season, there was a lot of loaders
- N55 was under construction and very hard to drive on
- Hyderabad to Karachi Motorway is NOT a motorway like punjab, there is NO rules here
- Maybe I came from small town, but damn how much Karachi has population and traffic.
- Karachi Hill parks are NOT hills
- Do Drya, ocean drive was out of this World
- Karachi's air was different and very pleasant, especially near sea areas
- Karachi's Infrastructure and Color was totally different than all Pakistan
- Karachi Needs MORE roads, if Islamabad, Faisalabad, Lahore can get roads then so does Karachi.
- Karachi people drive different (there is no concept of driving calmly)
- Interior Sindh was amazing to say the least
- More Greenery, better farms, better landscape in Sindh as compared to punjab and kpk
- Karachi has a problem of something (I dont know what) but there were more strictness like some places only open for families and some are only for vaccinated people etc, and keep in mind I am saying that even by standards of my hometown which is 1 of the strict places on Pakistan.
- Hyderabad was amazing, people were more Welcoming
- It feels like in sindh, almost everyone gets government car(green plate) and alot of Police escorts (so much afsar shahi)
- Multan was conservative city
- Faisalabad was too much developed (i shouldnt say that) but this city has very good roads but very bad drivers who take these roads for granted
- Industrial City was better than Bahria town or DHAs, it was tempting to get plot their and build a house
All in all, the tour was amazing, had fun seeing the south side, different cultures, different people but same problems etc
Tour was way better than any Northern area tour (Maybe its due to I live in Hilly areas)
Sindh Government was better in showing cultural side of Sindh etc
Total Cost = 72,337 Rs
Total Distance. = 3,180 Kms
Sorry I dont take too many photos but here are some videos etc
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Also, as I do a lot Data management stuff, so i did make a sheet of all the expenses in exact form, so if anyone wants to check for reference then they are more than welcomed to do so:
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