Category: Destinations
PIA’s Partnership with IHIG offers two FREE nights
Timesharing The benefits of timesharing are known to the travellers worldwide and they invest in bigger chains like Marriott, Hilton, Wyndham etc. However, this concept is relatively newer to Pakistan and therefore it will take some time and effort to tell people about its benefits. International Hospitality Investment Group (IHIG) is Pakistan’s first vacation ownership…
How to get Burundi Visa
When we were planning our East Africa Tour, we really wanted to add this landlocked country called ‘Burundi’ to our tally. Burundi is right next to Rwanda and DR Congo. So I sent a few emails to embassies in that region hoping to get positive responses. My first email was to their embassy in Addis…
Kyrgyzstan eVisa
Kyrgyzstan is a small landlocked Central Asian country North of Tajikistan. It borders with China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan as well as Kazakhstan. Its capital Bishlek is just around 240kms from Almaty. Kyrgyzstan has just taken a major step towards easing their visa services. eVisa services will start operating from 1st September 2017. They have launched this eVisa service…
Vietnam Visa
The Vietnam Visa was a tricky one. Like many other countries, visa on arrival to Vietnam facility is not being offered to Pakistani citizens. Vietnam embassy website in Pakistan did not have enough information on Visa as well as their consular section was last modified in 2010. Upon digging the search engines further, I found out that…
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is the largest collection of elephants in the world. It has wild Asian elephants which are being fed, treated and nursed for their wounds that they get in various forests of Sri lanka or from land-mines. According to our tour guide there were about 90 elephants at that time. Once the calves attain…
Kandy
The Kandy-Nuwara Eliya road was good one and it was not bumpy like Ketulgala-Nuwara Eliya road. The total distance from Nuwara Eliya to Kandy is about 100km. The hills are carpeted with uniformly-clipped lush-green tea-plantations. The scenes of carved water-streams and waterfalls were amazing so we stopped at few places before getting to Kandy. Kandy is…
Mackwoods Tea Factory
Mackwoods Labookellie tea factory is the first tea factory in Sri Lanka which was awarded ISO-9001 certification. It was established in 1841 by British Ship’s Captain William Mackwood who was it’s first Chairman as well. It survived many wars especially World War I and II, kept progressing and now it has over 10,000 employees working on…
Victoria Park, Nuwara Eliya
The city of Nuwara Eliya is also called ‘Little England’ mainly due to its climate, the average daily temperature stays around 15C throughout the year. British colonists liked this location and it was like a home to them, they used to spend their time here hunting, playing cricket or golf. Perhaps the biggest attraction in…
Mlesna Tea Castle
There is another proper way to go from Colombo to Nuwara Eliya directly but because we had to visit The Birdge on River Kwai’s location we took this road. Although the road becomes bumpy and is broken at different places but those tea estates we saw on our way were treat to eyes and I…
Zesta Tea Stopover
We restarted our journey from Kitulgala towards Nuwara Eliya via many of Sri Lanka’s tea plantations or “Estates”. Zesta is located in one such village called Watawala and these plantations are owned by Watawala Tea Ceylon Ltd. A huge yellow cup is mounted on a pole near the road. The shop itself is in front…
