Pakistan Travel and Tourism Information

Pakistan

Blogs

Pakistan travel blogs from TravelBlog.org.

Encyclopedic Information

Pakistan country profile from the BBC.
Pakistan information from MSN Encarta encyclopedia.
- Arabian Sea.
- Asia.
- Gulf of Oman.
- Himalayas.
  - Nanga Parbat Mountain.
- Hindu Kush Mountains.
- Indus River.
- Islam.
  - Shia Islam.
  - Sunni Islam.
- Islāmābād.
- Jammu and Kashmīr.
- Karakoram Range.
  - K2 or Mount Godwin Austen.
- Karāchi.
- Kīrthar Range.
- Khyber Pass.
- Lahore.
- Punjab.
- Rann of Kutch Salt Marshes.
- Rāvi River.
- Safed Koh Mountain Range.
- Sulaimān Range.
- Sutlej River.
- Thar Desert.
- Urdu language.
Pakistan information from Yahoo! encyclopedia.
- Baluchistan Province.
  - Quetta.
- Chandigarh.
- Faisalabad.
- Indus valley civilization.
- Islamabad.
- Kashmir.
  - Jammu.
  - Muzaffarabad.
  - Srinagar.
- North-West Frontier Province.
  - Pathan Tribes.
  - Peshawar.
- Punjab Province.
  - Amritsar.
  - Jalandhar.
  - Lahore.
  - Ludhiana.
  - Multan.
- Rawalpindi.
- Sind.
  - Hyderabad.
  - Karachi.
  - Sukkur.

Government

Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Pakistan.gov. "The Official Web Gateway to the Government of Pakistan."

Maps

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High quality up-to-date maps of Pakistan from Maps.com the online map store.
Infoplease.com. Map of Pakistan and links to other information about the country.
Map of Pakistan from University of Texas Library. This map contains lots of detail. Zoom in with your browser to see the finer details.
University of Texas Map collection. Maps of Pakistan, its regions, and its cities.

News

Travel news about Pakistan from Google News.

Photographs

Pakistan photographs from Flickr.com.
Pakistan photographs from Google Images.

Reservations

Travelconsumer.com reservations page. Airline, hotel, car, and other reservations.

Tourism

Welcome to Pakistan. Official tourism Web site. "Pakistan is a special interest destination. Its main attractions include adventure tourism in the Northern Areas, cultural and archaeological tourism as found in Taxila, Moenjodaro, Harrappa, and early Muslim and Mughal heritage at Multan, Lahore, Thatta, Peshawar, Swat. Besides this, birds watching Jeep safaris, desert safaris, trekking and mountaineering are readily available tourist specialized products...

...Pakistan is a paradise for trekkers. Most of the trekking routes lies in the northern mountains of the Hindukush, the Karakorams and the Himalayas. For most of the treks, trekking season is between May to October. The Ministry of Tourism, Government of Pakistan, has defined trekking as walking below 6000 m. It has designated three zones for trekking; open, restricted and closed. Foreigners may trek anywhere in open zone without a permit or services of a licensed mountain guide. For trekking in restricted zone, foreigners must pay a fee of US$ 20 per person per trek to obtain a trekking permit from the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of Pakistan Islamabad. It also requires to hire a licensed mountain guide; buy a personal accident insurance policy for the guide and the porters and to attend mandatory briefing and de-briefing at the Ministry of Tourism, on the beginning and end of the trekking trip. No trekking is allowed in closed zones which are the areas near Pak-Afghan border and near the Line of Control with Indian-held Kashmir."