Outdoor sights in Pakistan
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Lal Suhanra National Park
Located 35km east of Bahawalpur and covering a natural lake and a large man-made forest, this 51,588 hectare Lal Suhanra National Park is a pleasant place to relax.
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Race Course Park
Southeast of Bagh-i-Jinnah on Race Course Rd, the cool, green Race Course Park is the place to catch a polo game. It's also good for a stroll or jog - there's less human traffic on weekdays (late afternoons can get busy, though).
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Bagh-i-Jinnah
A central place to slow the pace and chat to locals is pleasant Bagh-i-Jinnah. There's an open-air theatre that has frequent nightly performances (in Urdu or Punjabi) and the attractive British building in the centre of the park now houses Jinnah Library.
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Ayub National Park
Named after General Ayub Khan, the first of Pakistan's martial law administrators, the rather staid Ayub National Park south of the Cantonment has 900 hectares of paths, gardens and lakes (with hire boats). To get here, take an airport-bound Suzuki from Rawalpindi and get off at Kucheri Chowk, then take the right fork and travel for about 1km.
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Mominabad Village
In the Northern Areas there are traces of an ancient caste system, in which musicians and artisans ranked low. In the past they were often segregated in their own separate villages. Though it's quite ordinary looking, Mominabad (old name Berishal), near a turn on the Ganish-Karimabad road, was such a village. Its people even speak their own dialect, Berishki.
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Shakarparian
Known as Shakarparian, the urban wilderness south of Islamabad has an arboretum with trees planted by dozens of foreign heads of state, as well as sculpted gardens, and panoramas of Islamabad and Rawalpindi from the east lookout.
To get to the hill lookouts, get off the bus at the Zero Point stop, cross the road and follow a path for 20 minutes up the hill.
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Khunjerab Pass
Much of the Pakistan side of the Khunjerab Pass that links Pakistan with China on the Karakoram Highway is within the Khunjerab National Park (KNP), established in 1975. A KNP resthouse at Dih may be available to the public if no officials are using it. From Dih to the pass it's about 50km (32mi).
The pass is one of the few known habitats of the big, curly-horned Marco Polo sheep, of which there are now only a few hundred in the world. It's also home to Himalayan ibex, golden marmots, wolves, snow leopards and more.
Scattered along the KKH are deserted concrete buildings: hostels for Chinese KKH workers, built in the late '60s when the road was being laid to Gulmit. At…
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Daman-e-Koh
A picnic spot and lookout in the Margalla Hills, Daman-e-Koh has panoramic views over Islamabad and, on the rare clear day, south to the Salt Range. It's a splendid spot to get a sense of the city's layout, with the Shah Faisal Mosque a breathtaking sight. To get here, hop off intercity minibus 1 or 6 at 7th Ave and catch a Suzuki at Khayaban-e-Iqbal, or walk up the steep path behind the small Marghzar Zoo for about 30 minutes.
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