Travel To Asia

islamabad

The capital of Pakistan, is in the north of the country; on the Potwar Plateau, near Rawalpindi.     The site of Islamabad was chosen to replace Karachi as the capital of Pakistan in 1959. Urban planners set to work, and the new city became the official capital in 1967.     A lot of the construction work wasn't completed until the mid-1970s though.     Of the modern buildings in Islamabad, the most notable are the National Assembly Building, and the home of the President; known as Pakistan House.     The Faisal Mosque, built in 1985, was designed to look like a desert tent. Its four surrounding minarets are all about 90 m high.

Chrysalis

Located upstairs from the Northfield Café, this shop has nice quality casual wear in natural fabrics such as silk and linen. You can also have your clothing custom made.

The Central Zoo

The mainly reason to ever visit this zoo is to get in a quick elephant ride. Of all the places in Nepal where you can ride one, this is the cheapest at only Rs100 ($1.50) per ride. If you want to take an elephant for a spin around town, you can even hire one for the reasonable fee of Rs1,000 ($15.15) per hour. The zoo itself is an incredibly depressing place, with animals kept in small, dirty, cement-floored cages.