A trip to Thandiani – Another Mountain Resort Page 1 Thandiani, another mountain top tucked away in the KPK mountains (Shaikh Muhammad Ali) (34° 14' 0" North, 73° 22' 0" East) “Not the least of the challenges of travel, therefore, is learning how to import -- and export -- dreams with tenderness.”….George Santayana
I had come to learn about Thandiani (another famous mountain resort close to Nathiagali) from a colleague in 2005 and since then had been finding a reason to visit this resort.
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A trip to Thandiani – Another Mountain Resort Page 1
Thandiani, another mountain top tucked away
in the KPK mountains
(Shaikh Muhammad Ali)
(34° 14' 0" North, 73° 22' 0" East)
“Not the least of the challenges of travel,
therefore, is learning how to import -- and
export -- dreams with tenderness.”….George
Santayana
A trip to Thandiani – Another Mountain Resort Page 2
Overview:
I had come to learn about Thandiani (another famous mountain resort close to
Nathiagali) from a colleague in 2005 and since then had been finding a reason
to visit this resort.
Where there’s a will there’s a way. Luckily, I had befriended the Director of
COMSATS University, Abbottabad and discussed with him the option of visiting
Thandiani in the summer break of 2007. He was more than happy to invite me to
take this excursion and arranged my stay at a guest house, the services of which
were hired by the university for their guests.
Come the evening of 19th May 2007, we packed our bags in our Margalla 1993
and off we went to Abbottabad. Abbottabad is at a distance of approximately
116 kms from Islamabad and takes around 3 – 4 hours to reach the destination.
(On the road from Havelian to Abbottabad)
We reached Abbottabad around Maghreb prayers and were put up in the
guest house which was nicely tucked away in a sleepy corner of the city
somewhere close to the Pakistan military academy, Kakul. After having a
comfortable night’s sleep at the guest house, we were up early around 7:00
a.m. the next morning to leave for our destination i.e. Thandiani.