Pakistan

Where to travel on your holiday to Pakistan?

Lahore

Lahore, with its palaces, mosques and havelis, is an achingly beautiful gateway to the rest of the country. Wander the labyrinthine streets of the Walled City, discovering Lahore’s rich culinary heritage and artistic traditions. Marvel at the intricate designs of the Wazir Khan Mosque and the Shahi Hammam. Then revel in the silliness and pomposity of the Wagah flag-lowering ceremony as Pakistani and Indian border guards try to outperform each other.

Northern Pakistan

In the country’s northern reaches, the apricot-scented breezes of Hunza, Chitral and Skardu make an evocative foil to the jagged grandeur of the landscape. Here, surrounded by the planet’s greatest concentration of monster peaks—K2, Rakaposhi and Nanga Parbat to name just three—adventurers will find an outdoor playground beyond compare. Using helicopters and private mobile tented camps, we can make once-arduous slogs like the trek to K2 Base Camp both fast and comfortable. Or we can kit you out with mountain bikes to ride the engineering wonder that is the Karakoram Highway. High on the immense Deosai Plateau, you can track Himalayan brown bear, wolf and snow leopard.

You’ll also find remote mountain communities with traditions scarcely changed in centuries. Staying in restored forts and palaces, you can rub shoulders with rajahs and polo players, shamans and musicians, weavers and jewellery makers, even blue-eyed descendants of Alexander the Great’s army.