visiting sukkur - 2

Posted by mansoor on 30 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: travelogue

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*

9 Responses to “visiting sukkur - 2”

  1. on 30 Jan 2007 at 11:45 pm   falsaqueen

    You are so mean. Loser!

  2. on 31 Jan 2007 at 7:46 am   Sugarlips

    Do u know I was born in sukkur? Yessssssss I did :) lived there till the age of 6 yrs :D
    You reminded me everything dude *bawling*

    Stay Beautiful…!!

  3. on 31 Jan 2007 at 10:23 am   mansoor

    fq: i know ;)

    sugalips: really! man! is this a small world or what!!!! then hang around for the pics, that would *really* take you back :D

  4. on 31 Jan 2007 at 4:12 pm   asma

    sukkur ko tu choro - nice layout … serene :)

  5. on 31 Jan 2007 at 11:43 pm   Sugarlips

    Waiting for the pics dude :)

  6. on 01 Feb 2007 at 5:45 pm   O

    waiting for the pics. :D

  7. on 01 Feb 2007 at 6:14 pm   mansoor

    asma: lol and LOL!!! thanku for liking :D

    sugalips: they’re up!

  8. on 19 Mar 2008 at 12:16 am   SyeD WaqaR MazhaR

    A.o.A,
    Firstly I appreciate u,your site is so Informational and using funny word,nice ,I see first time your site and I think you good job done.I prey 4 you.I like it.ok fRienD see u later.by Allah Hafiz.

  9. on 07 Oct 2008 at 4:23 pm   sundas

    hey ia m looking for some pictures of lab-e-mehran- for my class project..
    if u took some by chance can u post them here.. (or anybody else here?!).. please help!:)

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