The Word of mAn[S]o0r

The day started with us going down to see IBA sukkur campus, my friends alma mater. he proudly took us through every building with a commentary. nice place..

Next came the famous sukkur suspension bridge. had an incident too. I switched to using my imate, since there is no rampant mobile snatchin here.. n just as I was taking some pics of the bridge.. a rangers security guard comes n demands I hand over my mobile as photographs are not allowed. He almost snatched it from me too!!! lol! saving it from theives only to let it be almost taken by security!! how’s that for ironic!

The next stop was the shrine of the seven sisters.. they were the arab women who wrote to arab king complaining of raja dahirs cruelness.. who then sent bin qasim to save them n subsequently conquer the area. the women died there before bin qasim could come, allegedly being sucked up in the earth by god to save them from the pain, other things there were the tombs of shohda from that war! It was awe inspiring. In the distance, was the ruined qilla of raja dahir too.

Next stop was a mandir, made in the raja dahir era, n currently functioning too. It’s on an island in the middle of the indus, accessible by boat only. We need a pass normally, but got in without. A guide explained who each deity was, n what each chamber was for. It’s a large mandir, with around six dedicated deity chambers, n large grounds.

Next on the agenda was mir masoom shahs minar, which has a very narrow passage way which leads to the top… mir was a vazir of akbars court. From the top u can see a panoramic view of all of sukkur. Amazing place!

Then we went to lab-e-mehran. It’s a park on the bank of the indus river. From there we took a boat ride on the indus… A very long one time was about asar… it was lovely!!! And so romantic. Plus got to view sukkur barrage from a close up.

Then went to kaide… a village near here to visit someone. On the way back, visited a bazaar… the only thing left here we didn’t go to. By that time we were so dead tired that just wanted to come home.. Still had to have dinner though. And the friend had a very lavish spread waiting for us when we got home!

Too good!!!

*again, pictures will follow as soon as i get them*

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