This completely revised Handbook contains over 100 meticulously researched maps and complete descriptions of all sites. It is packed with background facts on the country’s history, culture, geography as well as detailed practical information on hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment and travel. A comprehensive guide for individual adventures, luxury tourers, Pakistan residents and armchair travelers alike, Pakistan Handbook is the ideal companion – whether you choose to hount the bazaars and beaches of Karachi, join a camal safari accross the Cholisaton Desert, or trek to the roof of the world in the high Karakaram.
The Himalaya, Hindu Kush, Kashmir, Karakoram Highway, Khyber Pass, The Silk Route: Pakistan is a litany irresistible to the gypsy spirit in even the most reluctant of us. For those to whom travel is the favoured muse, you are fortunate that Isobel Shaw has gone before. She will lead you with equal confidence through the ancient streets of Lahore to hidden tombs, through the bazaars of Peshawar to her favourite kebab stall, into colourful deserts and remote northern valleys where no tour bus ever treads.
Isobel Shaw lived in Pakistan from 1978 to 1981 and has spent several month there every year since then. Her exhaustive exploration and love of Pakistan provide the basis for this truly extraordinary book – the first and most complete guide to a country little-known to the overage traveler.
The book is divided by region - Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, North-West Frontier, Azad Kashmir, the Karakarom Highway and the Nothern Areas and contains an indispensible Urdu Glossary and reading list. Good travelling to you. You couldn’t be in better hands to discover this beautiful, little-known land.
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