One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.

Swat is a beautiful valley with some captivating views, located in Malakand division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. I remember in childhood, we used to visit swat via mardan, takht bhai via old routes in back 90's. Now it was such an amazing trip to watch so many fine roads, motorways that are  hassle free and so convenient while on way to swat. Swat Motorways M16 has undoubtedly made the tour more beautiful. Historical background: It used to be state in back 1849, established by Muslim saint Saidu Baba. In British Raj it was recognized as a princely state between 1918 to 1947.  However today I am going to travel swat and it's capital city "Saidu Sharif" including stay at Serena hotel, "Marghazar white Palace" & a stay at  Rock city resort fizaghat, Swat shopping mall and  "Malam Jabba" . In recent times it becomes more famous for it's winters sports festivals. Especially in snow fall season " Malam Jabba" is considered the best ski reso...

It was such a wonderful experience of visiting a tea garden in Mansehra, Pakistan.  National tea and high value crops research institute (NTHRI),  is located in Shinkiari Mansehra and it's the first and the largest project of tea in Pakistan.  Basically it's a research center with a beautiful tea garden, however visitors are allowed. I must suggest that this beautiful, scenic garden must be visited by every tourist or at least by those who have some interest in plantation. This tea garden reminds me a visit to a  Tea garden in Cameron highland in Malaysia .  I missed one thing at Mansehra tea garden, is that they didn't made any effort for the provision of daily visits to tea factory and providing fresh tea to the visitors to taste. I asked the guard on the gate and he had a few packets of green tea that I brought. Though I wanted black tea and wanted to taste it on the spot but there was no such arrangement for visitors. So I will suggest them to introduce it a...

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience"  -Eleanor Roosevelt There was a time when I used to travel only for sake of travelling without taking it into any adventurous spirit.  No doubt, new environments and cultures are the most exciting aspects of travelling but with time I have learnt to explore the adventurous spirit of travel by opting a few adventurous opportunities like trekking in mountains, camping, ziplining in the mountains, watersports like parasailing on the lake and jet ski etc.  ONE SUCH ADVENTUROUS ACTIVITY recently I have done at HEAVENWAYS ZIPLINE ADVENTURE  , a newly inaugurated zipline activity at Noori valley of Kaghan in KP, Pakistan. They have quite professional staff and equipment safety for such adventurous sport.  They have been promoting adventurous tourism in Pakistan since last 3 years. You may check their official page for further det...