16 January 2017

Murree and Taxila

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Our Quick Trip to Murree
By
Randall D. Ball

With just over three weeks for our Christmas vacation and having spent the first two weeks in Borneo, we wanted to do something in the last few days of our holiday.  So, we headed north, into the hills, into the mountains north of Islamabad.  We had a good but quick trip north, including getting far enough north (in the Himalayas) to get out of Punjab and into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and far enough west a day later to get into the KP (or Northwest Frontier Province) as well.

The girls definitely saw snow--lots of it--and got to play in it for the first time.

We were up a lot higher than I thought we would be--by the time we hit Ayubia National Park near Nathia Gali we were nearly at 10,000 feet at the park...and even our hotel in Murree was around 7500 feet.

We took a pretty thrilling--and chilling (it was COLD)--ride in a three-kilometer chairlift up a mountaintop...and back down.  Girls were scared but also a bit excited about it.  

And then on our Islamabad day, we went west on the road toward Peshawar to visit the ruins of Taxila, visiting the museum first and then three ancient sites.


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