“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries”- Aldous Huxley.
And Islamabad is no exception to that. The capital of Pakistan was down but not out. So all the bandwagon jumpers out there turn the TV off and listen closely—the capital city has a story of its own to tell. Well situated in the lap of Mother Nature, the city belongs to a league of its own. “Islamabad is 15 miles away from Pakistan”, or so as the popular belief goes, this metropolitan with its agreeable climate and company separates it from the rest of the country. So why the delay? Overcome that inertia of yours and spread your wings for take-off!
Silhouetted against the evening firmament of the Islamabad airspace, the Centaurus skyscrapers are the first to catch your sights. The Cinepax cinema is a recent addition to its mall which gives all the more reason to visit the place. With an entire array of international brands and shops all gathered under one roof, you are surely not going to have a ‘buyer’s remorse’!
The immediate advantage of booking a suite in any of the capital’s five-star hotels is, apart from the aesthetics of their interior layouts and attentive services provided 24 hours, their close proximity to not just the beautiful Rawal Lake but almost all the architectural or amusement spots the city has to offer. Standing at the foot of Margalla hills, the drive to Daman-e-Koh and Pir Suhaawa is only a matter of a few minutes.
The La Montana restaurant provides the kind of vantage point every foreigner with a DSLR (even a point-and-shoot would do) wishes for. So make sure to bring it with you. Not just an inanimate landscape but a wholesome experience it is. Interesting, right? Go ahead and book cheap flights to Islamabad right now!
Not just everything with a five-star label should attract your attention and make you overlook some of the most fun places that do not observe such a strict code of discipline. The Super market (F-6) and Jinnah Super market (F-7), and the latter more than the former, provides the kind of scenes and inclinations the bourgeois of the society likes to indulge in. Shopping marts, food courts, dating spots, amusement clubs and what not. Not to mention if everything else fails, the KFC is always there!
All reasons aside, the chief stimulus to galvanize you into action at this time of the year is exactly THIS time of the year! Presently the weather of Islamabad recommends itself to tourists and is ideal for such aerobic and metabolic activities like hiking on the Margallas, cycling on the highway circuit and horse-riding in the Islamabad Club.
However, by the end of May, summer would invade as always accompanied by its troops of intolerable heat, suffocating winds and an overall climate not very much hospitable to foreign tourists in general and European tourists in particular. But that will have to wait.
With relaxed VISA policies and unmindful natives, it is the best choice for this spring. Your flute/violin performance on the shoreline of Rawal lake is something your spouse would love experience. So Right now, all you have to do is to make the most out of this present scenario by booking flights to Islamabad and not regret it later on.
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