Insight Guides - Insight Guides Pakistan (Travel Guide eBook)

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This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Iceland, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Iceland. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Iceland are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Iceland. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Pakistans Top 10 Attractions

Top Attraction 1

Badshahi Mosque. Though no longer the largest of Pakistans mosques, this icon of Lahore is the grandest and most treasured of Pakistans Mughal monuments. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

The Karakoram Highway. Along this legendary route from the lowlands to Gilgit and onwards to Kashgar on the old Silk Road is some of the most impressive mountain terrain on the planet. It also links up with the even more dramatic Skardu Road. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Baltistan. Once known as Little Tibet, this remote region is a trekkers and mountaineers dream, home to the Baltoro Glacier, K2 and other giants of the Karakoram. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

Mohenjo-daro. The most impressive remains of the Indus Valley Civilisation, which flourished in the region between 3,000 and 1,500 BC. The city had a grid layout of streets, brick houses complete with plumbing, public baths, workshops and stores. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Nanga Parbat. This awesome peak dubbed Killer Mountain for being a particularly forbidding climb marks the eastern end of the Himalayas, dominating the views from the idyllic Fairy Meadows. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Lahore Fort. One of the great Mughal forts, with splendid courtyards, pavilions and palaces, including Shah Jahans breathtaking Shish Mahal (Palace of Mirrors). For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Makran Coast. A place of sublime beauty, with bizarre, lunar landscapes and great hammerhead peninsulas dropping into the Arabian Sea. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Peshawars Old City. Centring around the sensitively restored Bazaar-e-Kalan with its carved mansions, Peshawars old bazaars are among the most immersive in the country. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Mazar-e-Quaid. Surrounded by a beautifully kept garden complex, this imposing marble monument is where millions come to pay their respects to the nations founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 10

Hunza. This valley has an almost eerie beauty, its tapestry of terraced fields and irrigation channels bespeckled with poplars and dominated by the snow-covered hulk of Rakaposhi. For more information, .

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Editors Choice

Cathedral Spires on the Karakoram Highway.

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