You arrive at the beautiful city of Islamabad and Pakistan’s new capital nestled against the backdrop of Margalla hills at Potohar plateau.
A visit to Taxila brings us face it face with the great Buddha, Alexander of Macedonia, Ashoka the Buddhist king and emperor Kanishka. Peshawar the city of Pathans tribesmen was lid out about 2000 year ago and has very rich museum established in 1906. Swat is the most interesting valley historically, also one of the most beautiful. Its museum houses find Buddhist art remains and its archeological sites range from prehistoric caves to the Buddhist Monasteries. Driving on the ancient Silk Route provides views of a rare mountain Panorama and building of the road itself is one of the great wonders. Gilgit was an important staging post on the Silk Route to China and today is the capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan and a thriving town. Hunza is the home of legendary Hunza and the model for James Hilton’s Shangri-La in the Lost Horizon. Lahore the Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual center and possessor of the Serene Mughal monuments while Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan and its commercial and industrial hub.
