Tourists/Foreigners in Pakistan

[ravian94]

Cute pronunciation of "Lassee"

[Pakia]

phir mojaan i mojaan

[Pakia]

from EXPATHEATHER.COM

Few things about Heather (or Michelle while in Pakistan, as Heather was generally taken as a boy's name in Pakistan".

She studied & worked in Lahore for three years. Knows enough Urdu to go about on her own in the country, even travel to Pakhtunkwa on a bus by herself.

[Pakia]

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Photoshoot in rural Pak. Punjab

Meeting some kids on a trip
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At Grammy Awards in LA

[Pakia]

Arriving Sikh pilgrims saying their regards, by raising swords







Train to Pakistan

[malpensa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCX3...OUjiu0U6qN3BQ=

[malpensa]

guys even if we cant attend lets leave her good comments on her youtube video so she feels good for coming to islamabad

DJ Sugar shaker in Islamabad


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgCX3...OUjiu0U6qN3BQ=

[ravian94]

ISLAMABAD: A group photo of PML-Q Secretary General Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed with Chinese couple in traditional Pakistani wedding dress, bride Wang Qianting, Bureau Chief China Radio International (CRI) & groom a diplomat of Chinese Embassy, Wang Shengjie on wedding ceremony.

[Pakia]

[united pakistan]

KARACHI:
Antoine Pagis, a 30-year-old Frenchman, is visiting Pakistan in his VW van fuelled by two desires: to explore the world and to find ‘Miss Right’.Pagis has been on the road for two months, having decided on a world tour after waking up one morning fed-up with the drudgery of his daily life. He quit his job at a software company in his hometown of Montbrun les Bain, southeast France, and embarked on his dream trip. “I felt the need to feel alive,” he explained.
He also felt the nagging need to find his perfect match. Marriage and children are on his mind, and Pagis told The Express Tribune he seeks the one true love of his life — something to alert all single Francophile women in Pakistan.
What qualities is he looking for? “I’m a young man. Of course I want her to be beautiful, but it’s very important that she’s also smart,” he said.
Arriving in Karachi, he was pleased with what he saw. He said he was glad to discover that young and ‘modern-looking women’ exist in this part of the world. In Quetta, by contrast, he said he rarely saw women, except for elderly ones or children.
As of now, he rates East European girls as the prettiest, but revealed that some Iranian women were very exotic. He found Turkish women to be quite ‘hairy’. After Karachi, his next stop is Lahore. Time will tell if Pagis thinks Punjabi women have the requisite je ne sais quoi.
After ditching his life in France, Pagis had €10,000 in savings, of which he spent 4,000 to buy an old army-green-coloured Volkswagon Transporter van, which is equipped with cooking range, bed and closet — but doesn’t have an AC. He knew that the €6,000 he had left was insufficient funds, so he tried his luck at an online poker championship. “And would you believe it, I won €20,000!”
There was no turning back for Pagis, who on March 21 took the road trip from France to Italy, then Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Iran and now Pakistan.
Pagis says he spent the first night in the country at the Pak-Iran border at Taftan, since the concerned customs official whose stamp was needed on his papers was not on duty when he arrived.
The language barrier has been a persistent problem with officials, but that aside he has faced no problems. In fact, at all the 11 border crossings he has passed so far, none have even checked his van.
On driving in Pakistan, he said “the road from Taftan to Quetta is the worst I’ve ever seen. Maybe it can be compared with those I’ve seen in Africa.” However, he did get to see a number of small tornadoes along the way. He has also been accompanied by armed escorts. “I’m not used to such attention,” he said with a smile as he recalled how five police mounted motorcycles and followed him around Quetta.
He said he was warned by his friends against visiting Pakistan. “Some of them even called me crazy,” he recalled. But the love and mutual respect he has found has overwhelmed him. He was even staying at a place in Karachi with a friend he met on Facebook.
The hospitality has been extensive. He has been handed an AK-47 by a Levies Force escort to pose for a photograph. In Quetta, one policeman even gave him some hashish for the trip ahead. “Nowhere in the world will you find such a wonderful law-enforcement authority,” he said with genuine praise, declaring, “I love Quetta police.”
He has also met other foreigners in Pakistan. In Quetta, he met a Dutch drummer, whose mission was to play with musicians in Pakistan that he meets along the way. From Quetta, Pagis went to Sukkur, then down to Karachi.
He said one of things he has discovered in Pakistan is the word ‘loadshedding’. Only in Pakistan has he heard such woeful tales about power outages.
But his travels have deepened his knowledge beyond just the opposite sex. “My journey has taught me a lot. I’ve learnt that one can find friends in any corner of the world, that we are all same and all these borders are man-made and don’t exist between common people.”
Antoine Pagis is now in Lahore, from there he plans to cross the Wagah border into India and beyond.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 27th, 2012.

[Pakia]

Taxila, Punjab

Apparently shown only to the select few, mostly foreigners.

[Pakia]

Chitral & Gojaan valley

[Saqib1]

Nice to see GoraS in Pakistan

[Pakia]

Hinglaj Mandir, Balochistan

[Pakia]

1980, (last year probably that a foreign woman can comfortably show so much skin lol)

Pretty interesting, read it on their blog
http://trecarr.blogspot.com/2011/11/...ch-6-1980.html






Old GT Road sign


Inside of their double decker bus


Johannes, Louise, Neil and Lyn enjoying a dip

[shakeelahmadch]

lol - It was rise of hippies in those days

[Aashiq]

Pakistan was an important destination for hippies.

[hero g]

lol gud old days

[James-Bond]

Originally Posted by Aashiq

Pakistan was an important destination for hippies.

Ofcourse. My dad tells me Peshawar was filled with hippies during the 70s.

[Intoxication]

Two of my former university professors were part of the tourism boom that Pakistan witnessed during the 1970s. One was part of the hippie trail and he told me how he and his friends entered Pakistan from Afghanistan, through the Khyber Pass, spent some time in Peshawar, then on towards Rawalpindi, before finally crossing Lahore into India and ending up in Nepal.

The other was in Pakistan for a long time (14 years) and spent most of his time in Abbottabad and the Hazara district at large and Swat, teaching, researching, and even teaching kids how to play Field Hockey.