Pakistan Highlights – Mughal Delights & Gandhara Civilization

My husband and I (late 30’s) spent 12 days travelling from Karachi to Islamabad. We had a great time and our experience really lived up to our expectations. In case in any one is interested, we would be very happy to recommend our agent, Xperience Pakistan, based in London UK for a private organised trip. We visited the main heritage sights on this route with the help of our guide and driver who made it easy to get engaged with the history and with people that we met on our whilst travelling. I have no idea how much bureaucracy they were having to deal with in the background, but from our point of view everything was seamless and we seemed to make friends with a lot of policemen who wanted selfies with us! We encountered no security issues at all. We ate in local restaurants without a westerner in sight, all chosen by our guide and we did not have any challenges with the power of curries or, indeed, misbehaving digestive systems. We stopped to watch cricket games by the side of the road, we galloped horses on the beach in Karachi, we rode camels in a camel market somewhere near Hyderabad and generally caused hilarity – and our guide found so many more opportunities to enjoy the Pakistani hospitality and warmth. From the outset of our inquiries into travelling to Pakistan as well as during our trip, Saadia, the founder of the company was always on hand and responsive to our queries, including helping us make last minute changes to our plans when we had left the organised trip and were staying with friends in Lahore. We really enjoyed our trip through the southern half of the country and are likely to go back next year to the north, although timing is everything as the weather is so different south to north.