Guest Post: Travel to Pakistan

Posted on June 30, 2006
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By S A J Shirazi

Traveling whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, “The Philosophy of Travel.” We “need sometimes,” the Harvard philosopher wrote, “to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

I believe Pakistan is one of the best travel destinations in the world–desert expanses in Thar and Cholistan, Lush green plains in Punjab, mighty mountains in Northern Pakistan and Chitral; so many unexplored and “just to yourself” places. And also great urban centers like historic Lahore. The beginnings of world history can still be traced down to Pakistan – Indus Civilization. Moreover, Pakistan being one of the cheapest countries in the world is a great deal for budget travelers.

S A J Shirazi is a Lahore (Pakistan) based writer. (See more at Shirazi’s blog ‘Light Within’).

13 responses to “Guest Post: Travel to Pakistan”

  1. Mr Mr says:

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  3. people who are not Pakistani want to travel Pakistan for culture and people, and they always want to look at mountains, valleys which is very beautiful in Pakistan but now a days people have fear because of security.

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  5. Shirazi says:

    One way of looking at the things is that let us not compare. Every place is a unique experience, logistics and other support infrastructure included. My recommendation: Indulge yourself and “be there, do thatâ€

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