Travel Diary - Northern Areas of Pakistan by @aliraxa (Part#01)

in #travel7 years ago (edited)



Hello my dear fellow steemians, I hope you all are doing very well if someone is viewing my blog the first time then you can go to my intro post, I'm a traveler and I'm starting my travel series because I want to share the beauty of my Country with the whole steem world, I want to give you guys an introduction about Murree.


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Murree was founded in 1851 as a sanatorium for British troops. The permanent town of Murree was constructed in 1853 and the church was sanctified shortly thereafter. One main road was established, commonly referred to even in modern times, as the mall. Murree was the summer headquarters of the colonial Punjab Government until 1876 when it was moved to Shimla.

Murree became a popular tourist station for British within British India, several prominent Englishmen were born here including Bruce Bairnsfather, Francis Younghusband, and Reginald Dyer. During colonial era access to commercial establishments was restricted for non-Europeans including the Lawrence College. In 1901, the population of the town was officially 1,844.

Since the Independence of Pakistan in 1947, Murree has retained its position as a popular hill station, noted for its pleasant summers. A large number of tourists visit the town from the Islamabad-Rawalpindi area. The town also serves as a transit point for tourist's visiting Azad Kashmir and Abbottabad. The town is noted for its Tudorbethan and neo-gothic architecture. The Government of Pakistan owns a summer retreat in Murree, where foreign dignitaries including heads of state often visit.
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I started my this travel with two friends and the third one joined us later, I don't know which picture should I post first but I think drinking water from a natural resource will be fine after that will start the journey proper

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his trip consists on 5 days and I will try to sum up in 5 days.

Here we go
this backpack was too much full that there was not any space to adjust my shoes in it

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ok we got 3 seats in a row the guy taking selfie is Nabeel the guy sitting with him is hamza and on the other seat its me

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This is what you get while sleeping when you have friends with you.

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And here we reached to hill station MURREE, PAKISTAN

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Almost waited for an hour for the driver who was supposed to pick us from this point to the hotel

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We are ready to explore the hill station and this is the view from the balcony of our hotel room ;-)

Resting on the way to Pindi Point

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This not Fog behind us these are Clouds

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Finally reached Pindi Point

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This nigga on the back side was so happy because he was out of home for the very first time on any trip.

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you can see his reactions in any picture

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This photo was taken on the way back to hotel room you can see the name on store front AQSA the name of someone very special to him(not now), he was so excited to watch that.

This was the first day wandering when we have no idea where to go and where to not so we headed back to the hotel and that was hilarious I'm gonna share some pictures of the hotel room where you can see his reaction for being out of home for a night first time in life.

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I hope you guys will enjoy this series because there are much more views that you'll see in tomorrows post, thanks for reading my post.

This series is started by me after inspiring by @velimir @slickwilly and the person who encourage steemians to write about their life Sir @surpassinggoogle

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A really nice travel blog my friend. You put effort in it.

I'm really really feeling great that you've visited my blog, I've started travel diaries and I'm thinking to post it on daily basis.

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I gave source as well on the similar content in introduction of Murree.