The Al-Fateh Grand Mosque just got served Our flight back to NYC from Lahore required a daylong layover in the Kingdom of Bahrain, of which we fully took advantage. It’s a country most recently famous for being the nearby (and relatively more liberal) weekend...
Jehangir's Tomb...and my jeans...just got served Today was the day we needed to see all the major sites of Lahore other than the Badshahi Mosque. Beginning with a relatively early morning at 11am, we set off for the massive city-sized Lahore Fort: The first...
Part of being in Pakistan during December is that you’ll make it in time for good weather, good food, and the annual wedding season; stay here long enough and you’re bound to get invited to one without any prior notice. This is what happened to me today...
The 3rd and final part of the wedding is the Walima, where the groom’s family hosts the bride’s family on their turf (their home, their city, their neighborhood, another venue, etc.), and everyone has one last dinner together. We started our first full...
After arriving in by train from Lahore, we settled in at a really nice place thanks to Mariam’s family: We then got a driver and tried to hit the ground running: We passed by the house of the Bhutto family (the family of Benazir Bhutto, who was...
The next morning we got ready for a 3pm train leaving from Lahore to Karachi. The whole journey took about 20 hours. Our 3pm train — The Pak Business Express — is owned by a private company instead of the government, so we were able to get reservations...
The proper way to celebrate New Year's in Lahore After the Baraat yesterday, we went out for late night milkshakes at The Good Shake (which I really recommend!) before watching Insidious 2 at home: Classin' it up at The Good Shake We then headed to the Lahore...