Historical Places In Lahore, Pakistan

Shalimar Gardens

Three miles east of Lahore are the famous Shalimar Gardens laid out by the Mughal emperor Shah Jehan in 1642 AD. The Gardens are spread out in typical Mughal style and are surrounded by high walls with watch towers at the four corners. Originally, the gardens were spread over seven ascending terraces, but only three remain now, which cover an area of about 42 acres.




Lahore Fort

The massive walls of Lahore Fort, built by Akbar in the 1560s, tower over the old city of Lahore, and the huge rectangle they define, 380 by 330 meters (1,250 by 1,080 feet), is filled with buildings from a variety of periods. A complete tour of the fort takes about two hours. The entrance to the fort is through Alamgiri Gate The inscription outside the Fort tells that Jehangir built it in 1618.

Shish Mahal

Shish Mahal, or Palace of Mirrors, which stands on the fort's north side, is by far the most splendid. It consists of a row of high domed rooms, the roofs of which are decked out with hundreds of thousands of tiny mirrors in the fashion of the traditional Punjabi craft of "Shishgari" (designs made from mirror fragments). A fire-brand lit inside any part of the Palace of Mirrors throws back a million reflections that dizzy the eye and seem like a galaxy of far-off stars turning in an ink-blue firmament.

Kim's Gun

Out side the museum, not far away, Zamzama, the 18th century fire piece immortalized by Kipling as "Kim's Gun", takes up a surprising length of space in the middle of road.


Minar-e-Pakistan

Minar-e-Pakisan is a new landmark in Lahore and stands in the Iqbal Park to commemorate the date when a resolution was passed there back in 1940 demanding the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of this sub-continent. The Minar is a blend of Mughal and modern architecture and stands 60 meters tall.

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What Is Tourism?

Tourism:
“Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”

(World Tourism Organization (WTO) - Recommendations on Tourism Statistics)

Tourists:

"People who travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited".(WTO)

Types Of Tourism:

Tourism may be of different types but it is mainly divided into following catagories:

1. In Boundry Tourism

1. Cross Boundry Tourism

• In Boundry Tourism:When the tourists of a country travel around the same country, it is known as In Boundry Tourism.


• Cross Boundry Tourism:When the tourists of a country travel around the country other than their home country, it is known as Cross Boundry Tourism.

It is further divided into following catagories:

Water tourism:

• Rivers:

There is no better way to get to know nature of the Okrug than to travel along water arteries of the Chukotka inner territory, which is very rich in rivers. Doing down the rivers on canoes or rubber boats is possible only during high water season (July-August) - during the rest of the year the rivers are either frozen or shallow and therefore impassable.The most popular routes are:

1. along the Amguema River, from source to 168th km of the Egvekinot-Yioultin Road (310 km);


2. along the Chantalveergyn River (150 km);


3. along the Pegtymel River (there you can see rocks with petroglyphs);


4. along the Ekittyki River and lake (94 km);


5. along the Anadyr River, from Markovo Village to the river mouth (300 km).

Length of the routes and direction may be varied at tourists’ request. You can rent motor boats in Anadyr and in the settlements of Markovo, Ust-Belaya (the Anadyr River), Amguema (the Amguema River) and Egvekinot (the Cross Bay).

• Sea:

Coasts of the Chukchi Sea and Providence Bay every year see cruise ships with American, Canadian and Russian tourists. Such tours are arranged by both American and British tourist companies (“Circumpolar Expeditions”, “Supernova Expedition LTD”), and Kamchatka travel agencies (“Pacific Network”).These tours ordinarily include visiting unique natural, historical and cultural sights of the region: the Whale Alley on Yttygran Island, Lorinski hot springs, ethnographic museums on Nunyamo and Dezhnev Capes, numerous folk villages.Sea cruises along the Anadyr and Bering Districts shores gain more and more popularity. Tourists coming to the district center Anadyr in summer can go on a motor boat excursion into the Onemen Bay, to the Kanchalan and Anadyr estuaries and to the mouths of the Anadyr and Velikaya Rivers.

Hunting and fishing

• Hunting

The Okrug is rich in game-preserves inhabited with many hunting species, among which are:

1. elk


2. wild reindeer


3. brown bear


4. sable


5. lynx


6. wolf


7. glutton

1. ermine


2. fox


3. polar fox


4. mink


5. otter


6. squirrel


7. lepus


8. musk-rat


9. wild goose


10. wood grouse


11. willow and tundra grouse


12. 10 species of duck.

It is prohibited to hunt for polar bear, snow ram, weasel, black-capper marmot, swan, white goose, emperor goose, brent-goose, eider-ducks of all species, mallard, killer whale, shoveler, harlequin duck, teal, sand hill crane, seagulls of all species, cormorant, day birds of prey, owl, woodpecker, cuckoo, song-birds and other birds of use.

• Fishing

About 40 species of fish inhabit fresh-water basins of the Chukotka Peninsular, half of these fishes are suitable for commercial fishery. These are first of all salmon fishes: Siberian salmon, red salmon, humpback salmon, silver salmon and quinnat salmon. Siberian salmon from the Anadyr estuary rivers and red salmon from the Mainypylgin Lake and river system are main fishes of salmon fishery.The Chukotka Okrug has got large fresh-water fish resources, especially it is rich in whitefishes: broad whitefish, vendace, round whitefish, peled (in the Kolyma River basin). Apart from whitefish, marketable are grayling, rainbow herring, pike, burbot, bull-trout and loach.Every year in April on the ice of the Anadyr estuary ice-fishing competition takes place, it is called the “Korfest” - “Smelt Festival” (last Sunday in April).

Scientific tourism

The Chukotka Peninsular is often visited by scientists, both Russian and foreign, working in different spheres of science. The Okrug is a popular place for research expeditions and conferences devoted to issues of constant and stable development of the territory.Reindeer-breeders’ camps in the Schmidt and Yioultin Districts where traditional way of life is preserved and coastal settlements of sea-hunters always attract ethnographers and linguists studying people of the Extreme North.Most of more than 500 archeological sights of the Okrug are still very little studied.Ornithologists often come to Chukotka, as more than 220 bird species live here. Routine research work is performed by ichthyologist and other researchers of biological resources of the sea.

Extreme tourism

The Chukotka Peninsular is mainly a mountainous area with low and medium mountain relief. So in summer it suits for hitchhiking and bicycle mountaineering of different degrees of complexity. In winter on its bold peak slopes Alpine-skiing and snowboarding tracks can be routed.Severe climate conditions, landscape variety and detachment from civilization are perfect requisites for such kinds of tourism, as:

1. rafting, kayaking and suchlike activities


2. Jeep-tours


3. tundra-roaming with reindeer-breeders


4. participation in a sea hunt


5. traditional forms of nomadic roaming – in dogs and deer ledges


6. walking tours


7. bicycle tours Devoted extreme travelers consider Chukotka to be one of the most difficult and interesting regions on the planet