tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15995323647338472002024-03-13T02:45:18.571-07:00My Destination PakistanAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581860750192526058noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599532364733847200.post-85512669935977283662013-10-18T03:37:00.002-07:002013-10-18T03:37:53.062-07:00The Best of Karachi in Half Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This list is for people who wants to see the best of Karachi but dont have much time to spend.<br />
<b>Explore locations featured in this Trip List</b>: Karachi<br />
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<b>1. Port Grand</b><br />
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<b>2.Ocean Tower</b><br />
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<b>3. Dolmen Mall</b><br />
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<b>4. Kolachi Restaurant</b><br />
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Kolachi is located in a strip along side Clifton beach known as Do Darya. The entire strip is a food district filled with several authentic restaurants: Sajjad, Afridi inn, Charcoal grill, Ambala, Kolachi, Hot bite etc to name a few. Here, the rocky shore provides shrimps which is used as bait to catch fish. The nearby Savor restaurant and also the Carlton Hotel offers dinner cruises on the Arabian Sea.<br />
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<b>5. Nueplex</b><br />
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Zeeshanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12036662033126735542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599532364733847200.post-24452384177214170372013-10-18T03:15:00.004-07:002013-10-18T03:17:39.369-07:00McDonalds presents 15 best places of Pakistan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The global fast food chain McDonalds has come up with a list of 15 best places in Pakistan on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/McDonaldsPK">facebook page</a>. They have released the list on occasion of their celebration of 15 years in Pakistan. Their selection of places include:<br />
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<b>Mount K2</b><br />
Also referred as Mount Godwin Austin, K2 is the world's second tallest mountain and roof top of the world. The view from the mountain is absolutely breathe taking making you feel in a paradise. The mountain is also the most challenging compared to the world's tallest Mount Everist. A Hollywood movie K2, based on a play written by Patrick Meyers and presented as a senior-thesis at Stanford University, was also shot at this fabulous location.<br />
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<b>Karakoram Highway</b><br />
Part of the historic silk route which connect Europe to Asia, Karakoram highway is highest paved international road in the world. The road is also called the Eight Wonder of the World as it was built after carving several mountains on its route. The road connects Pakistan to China through the Khunerjab Pass at an elevation of 4693 meters. Its construction began in 1959 during Ayub Khan tenure and was completed in 1979 and open to the public in 1986. About 810 Pakistanis and 200 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in landslides and falls, while building the highway. The Chinese workers who died during the construction are buried in the Chinese cemetery in Gilgit. There are several touristic sites along the highway including uprising memorial, baltit fort, ganish village, kharpochu fort, ashoka rocks, queen victoria monument, mir's palace, fong khar, lake saif ul mulk, buddha carved rocks, khaplu palace, italian K2 museum and illyasi mosque.<br />
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<b>Baltit Fort</b><br />
The impressive Baltit Fort is located in Karimabad in Hunza Valley of Pakistan. The foundations of the fort date back to 700 years ago, with rebuilds and alterations over the centuries. In the 16th century the local prince married a princess from Baltistan who brought master Balti craftsmen to renovate the building as part of her dowry. The architectural style is a clear indication of buddhist Tibetan influence in Baltistan at the time. Following a survey by the Royal Geographical Society of London a restoration programme was initiated that was supported by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Historic Cities Support Programme. The programme was completed in 1996 and the fort is now a museum run by the Baltit Heritage Trust.<br />
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<b>Taxila</b><br />
It is an archaelogical site near Islamabad. The city dates back to the Gandhara period and contains the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takṣaśilā which was an important Buddhist centre, and is still considered a place of religious and historical sanctity in those traditions. In 1980, Taxila was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site with multiple locations. In 2006 it was ranked as the top tourist destination in Pakistan by The Guardian newspaper. By some accounts, Taxila was considered to be amongst the earliest universities in the world. Others do not consider it a university in the modern sense, in that the teachers living there may not have had official membership of particular colleges, and there did not seem to have existed purpose-built lecture halls and residential quarters in Takshashila, in contrast to the later Nalanda University. The Taxila Museum is also worth a visit.<br />
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<b>Khyber Pass</b><br />
It<b> </b>is a mountain pass connecting Afghanistan and Pakistan, cutting through the northeastern part of the Spin Ghar mountains. An integral part of the ancient Silk Road, it is one of the oldest known passes in the world. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location. The summit of the pass is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inside Pakistan at Landi Kotal. For strategic reasons, after the First World War the British built a heavily engineered railway through the Pass. The Khyber Pass Railway from Jamrud, near Peshawar, to the Afghan border near Landi Kotal was opened in 1925.
During World War II concrete "dragon’s teeth" (tank obstacles) were erected on the valley floor due to British fears of a German tank invasion of British India (India and Pakistan). The pass has a reputation in the country as a gateway to gun culture and drugs. Currently the pass is a major route for supply of military armament to NATO troops in landlocked Afghanistan. Khyber train safari is a tourist train that runs through the pasa from Peshawer to Landi Kotal.<br />
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Situated in Hasan Abdal. Gurdwara Panja Sahib is one of Sikh's most holiest places. The palace has a rock believed to have the hand print of Guru Nanak imprinted on it. Several Sikhs pilgrims from around the world mainly UK and Indian state of Punjab visit Hasan Abdal twice a year to perform their religious rituals.<br />
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Khewra Salt Mine is the world's second largest salt mine and also a major tourist attraction in Pakistan drawing upto 250,000 tourists every year. Visitors are taken into the mine on a train. There are numerous pools of salty water inside. The Badshahi Mosque was built in the mining tunnels with multi-colored salt bricks about fifty years ago. Other artistic carvings in the mine include a replica of Minar-e-Pakistan, a statue of Allama Iqbal, an accumulation of crystals that form the name of Muhammad in Urdu script, a model of the Great Wall of China and another of the Mall Road of Murree. In 2003 two phases of development of tourist facilities and attractions were carried out, at a total cost of 9 million rupees. A clinical ward with 20 beds was established in 2007 for the treatment of asthma and other respiratory diseases using salt therapy.<br />
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Also called Shahi Qilla, the Lahore Fort is the citadel of the city of Lahore built by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb between 1556-1605. The fort is located inside Lahore Wall City which also house other palaces including Sheesh Mahal (the palace of mirrors) and Sikhs Gurdwara. In 1981, the fort was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Shalimar Gardens.The origins of Lahore Fort are obscure and are traditionally based on various myths. However, during the excavation carried out in 1959 by the Department of Archaeology, in front of Diwan-e-Aam, a gold coin of Mahmood of Ghazni dated AH 416 (1025 AD) was found at a depth of 7.62 metres from the level of the lawns. Replicas of the Lahore Fort are also built in China and United Arab Emirates to represent Pakistan Pavillion.<br />
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Built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in Lahore in 1641 AD, Shalimar Gardens is a huge Royal Garden built on main Grand Trunk Road. The garden is 658 meters north to south and 258 meters east to west. In 1981, Shalimar Gardens was included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the Lahore Fort, under the UNESCO Convention concerning the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage sites in 1972. The are three terraces in the garden named Bestower of Pleasure, Bestower of Goodness and Bestower of life. From this basin and from the canal rise 410 fountains, which discharge into wide marble pools.It is a credit to the creativity of Mughal engineers that even today scientists are unable to fully comprehend the water systems and thermal engineering from architectural blueprints. <br />
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Also called 'Royal Mosque' built by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673. Badshahi Mosque is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction. Capable of accommodating 55,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and a further 95,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.<br />
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Also called the Eiffel tower of Pakistan, Minar-e-Pakistan is the most recognizable landmark of Lahore built to commemorate creation of Pakistan. The tower rises about 62 meters, the total height of minaret is about 92 meters above the ground. The unfolding petals of the flower-like base are 9 meters high. The diameter of the tower is about 9.75 meters. The rostrum is built of patterned tiles, and faces the Badshahi Mosque. The base comprises four platforms. To symbolise humble beginnings of the freedom struggle, first platform is built with uncut Taxila stones, second platform is made of hammer-dressed stones, whereas third platform is of chiselled stones. Polished white marble at the fourth and final platform depicts the success of the Pakistan Movement. Today, the monument provides a panoramic view to visitors who can climb up the stairs or through an elevator. The park around the monument include marble fountains and an artificial lake.<br />
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Built during British Raj, the Jinnah Library building is almost the replica of Washington's famous White House. The home of US President. The library is situated inside Bagh-e-Jinnah (also called Lawrence Gardens) which is located next to Lahore Zoo and Governor's House on The Mall Road. Other attractions in the garden includes a Botanical Garden and Masjid Dar-ul-Islam. There are also entertainment and sports facilities within the park including an open-air theatre, a restaurant, tennis courts and the Gymkhana Cricket Ground.<br />
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It is the road border crossing between Pakistan and India. It is particularly known for the Wagah border ceremony that happens at the border gate before sunset each day.<br />
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Zeeshanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12036662033126735542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599532364733847200.post-8878298229007572172012-11-16T05:56:00.004-08:002012-11-16T05:56:56.961-08:00Khaplu Palace & Residence Wins Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pakistan has won international tourism award "The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award 2012" under the category “best in poverty reduction” announced at this year’s World Travel Market.<br />
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“This was the only project from Pakistan that won an award and this is certainly good news for us,” said Col (Retd) Salman Beg, the chief executive officer of Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan (AKCSP) — the NGO that restored the historic building. “The awards rested on a simple principle: that all types of tourism, from niche to mainstream, can and should be organised in a way that preserves, respects and benefits the local people,” he added.<br />
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Built in the 1840s, the palace and residence of the then raja of Khaplu was on the verge of a collapse when the NGO began its restoration in 2001. “It was in a real bad shape when we started the renovations,” Beg said of the palace located to the north of Khaplu Town, about 400 kilometres from Gilgit.<br />
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AKCSP won the first international award after it restored the historic Baltit Fort in 1996. Since then, the NGO has won 16 awards which include 11 consecutive UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation, two Pacific Asia Travellers Association Awards, two Virgin Responsible Tourism Awards and two British Airways Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.
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Since restoration of the palace, it constantly rated as the best place to be by the international tourists and has created jobs for 400 local households in renovation and continue to employ 35 individual households.
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Khaplu Palace & Residence (Manage by Serena Hotel Group) offers guests the privilege of experiencing a unique collection of historical buildings dating back to the 1840s. Undoubtedly the finest surviving example of a Royal Residence in Baltistan.<br />
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It is located just 2 ½ hours drive from Skardu airport and Shigar and provides the perfect spring board for all types of travelers, adventurers and researchers to explore the regions rich cultural heritage and Baltistani Royalty! For more information: <a href="http://www.serenagilgitbaltistan.com/">www.serenagilgitbaltistan.com</a></div>
Zeeshanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12036662033126735542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599532364733847200.post-81713556770787218812012-04-06T08:31:00.001-07:002012-04-06T08:31:15.911-07:00Next Destination Northern PakistanDiscover the land of wonders from high mountain peaks to glaciers, lakes and valleys running parallel to snow covered peaks. Some linked it to paradise on earth. Supposedly the setting for James Hilton novel Shangrila.<br />
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“Health secrets of people who live to 145 years of age” "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food" Hippocrates(460-377 B.C.)<br />
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Never have truer words been uttered. Food is an amazing healer and preventer of disease. In fact most disease is a result of faulty use of food. It has been seen time and time again in history that when traditional cultures of people have eaten natural, whole, organic foods they had excellent health, endless energy and near total freedom from disease. But when exposed to modern diet in the “developed” world which included processed, chemically treated, devitalised junk foods they started to develop endless degenerative diseases including chronic fatigue syndrome.<br />
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<b>A land where disease is unknown</b><br />
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Would you believe me if I told you there is a land of people on earth where there are no traces of cancer? Where men and women aged 80 years and older having endless energy and freedom from disease. A land where everyone has perfect vision, no heart disease, no obesity, no mental illness, no ulcers and no degenerative disease. Well I am here to tell you that such a land exists. The Hunzakut people enjoy this utopian lifestyle. They are an amazing people unknown to the public at large that live in the mountain peaks of the Himalayas in northwest Pakistan.<br />
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In Hunza men father children at ninety. Centenarians are a common occurrence and it is not unusual for elderly people to reach the age of 130 years of age in perfect mental and physical health! In fact a significant number have been reported to live to age 145!<br />
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But their greatest achievement is the fact that sickness is rare, that cancer, heart disease, heart attacks, high or low blood pressure and childhood diseases are virtually unknown. There is no juvenile delinquency in Hunza and divorce is a rarity. There are no jails, police or army and there is no need for them, as there hasn't been a crime reported for the last one hundred and thirty years.<br />
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Food secrets of the healthiest culture on earth<br />
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<b>Hunza health secret and secret of longevity #1</b><br />
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<b>So what do the hunza eat?</b><br />
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They eat a diet of fresh, natural, organic, unprocessed food. Everything is fresh. Their food contains no chemical additives whatsoever. The only processing consists of drying some fresh fruits in the sun. No chemicals or fertilizers are used in the growing process. They eat a variety of organic, mineral rich, fruits and vegetables. For protein they eat organic milk, yogurt, paneer, eggs, nuts, mung beans, and small amounts of organic white meat. For carbohydrates they eat a variety of organic unrefined whole grains. For fats they consume ghee, butter and almond oil. They consume rock salt which contains 83 minerals and nutrients.<br />
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<b>Hunza longevity bread</b><br />
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The Hunza’s make a bread which accompanies each meal and is quite different from any bread that we are used to. The grain is kept intact as long as possible, and is ground at the very last moment, the housewife grinds only as much as she needs for the next meal, and kneads again and again with water; not with yeast. She then beats it into very thin, flat pancakes similar to the tortillas of the Mexican Indians.<br />
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The dough is then simply placed on the grill for hardly more than a moment, in fact just long enough to grow warm and no longer taste raw and it is finished.<br />
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Dr. Ralph Bircher noted in his book on the Hunzas “No more effective method of preserving the health value of the grain exists and the taste is excellent even without butter or jam.” Hunza bread can be made from a variety of whole grains. But the best grain to use for chronic fatigue syndrome is Atta flour. This can be brought from any Indian or Asian grocery store or health food store.<br />
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I have explained in full detail in my e-book exactly how to make hunza bread.<br />
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Of all their organically grown food, perhaps the hunzas favourite, and one of their dietary mainstays, is the apricot. Apricot orchards are seen everywhere in Hunza and a family's economic stability is measured by the number of trees they have under cultivation.<br />
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They eat their apricots fresh in season. Fresh sweet apricots are a very rejuvenating, energy enhancing food. Excellent for people who suffer chronic fatigue syndrome.<br />
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<b>Hunza health secret and secret of longevity #2</b><br />
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The health and endurance of the Hunzakuts is credited as much to what they don't eat as to what they eat.<br />
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Frugality of food Hunzas eat more quality food and less quantity of food. The most important aspect of the hunza diet is to eat frugally. The higher the quality of food the less food you need to eat because the minerals and vitamins supply all the bodily needs which satisfy the appetite and energy requirements.<br />
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The hunzakuts eat according to their energy output, appetite and work requirements. Where as we in the west over eat out of sheer gluttony or habit which results in digestive disease and obesity.<br />
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What they don’t eat What the Hunzakuts do not eat or drink, should be of great concern to us and we should think seriously of eliminating the following items from our diet: refined salt, margarine, white sugar, white bread, white flour, refined cereals, sodas, cold drinks, flavourings, colourings, preservatives, red meat, tinned foods, non-organic meat and non-organic eggs.<br />
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<b>Hunza health secret and secret of longevity #3</b><br />
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<b>Hunza water</b><br />
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It is generally accepted that the water the hunzas drink plays a major role in their great health and longevity. This water comes from the melting of the glaciers from the nearby mountains.<br />
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These glaciers are hundreds of thousand years old and grind the mountainous rock into extremely fine particles. In turn the fine particles of rock are suspended in this water and is called glacial milk because of its cloudy appearance by being so loaded with these minerals.<br />
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Coming from glacial mountain streams and waterfalls this water carries a negative charge or negative ions and is called “living water.” This results in the water having an oxygen reduction potential and acts as an antioxidant in the body with the ability to mop up free radicals. Also the minerals in the water carry a negative charge, which make the minerals easily absorbable.<br />
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In this way, by drinking this water the Hunzakuts bodies are saturated with minerals which provides them with extraordinary vitality.<br />
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Another major factor is that their crops are also irrigated with this colloidal mineral water and thus unlike Western soils, hunza soils are not depleted of minerals. Plants are unable to manufacture one single mineral, so that when soils are depleted, the plants we eat will also be depleted of minerals.<br />
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Insufficiencies of essential minerals in our diet will lead to sickness and premature aging.<br />
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If you visit my website I will provide you with a link to where you can purchase this mineral saturated hunza water.<br />
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Experiments on rats using hunza diet and modern processed diet In 1927 Dr. McCarrison was appointed Director of Nutrition Research in India under the Research Fund Association. For his work and experiments he chose albino rats.<br />
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For the first phase of his experiment Dr. McCarrison chose healthy rats. He placed the rats in good conditions, with fresh air, sunlight, comfort and cleanliness. He chose their diet from foods eaten regularly by the Hunza people. This included hunza bread made of wholemeal flour, lightly smeared with fresh butter; organic vegetables, milk; a small ration of organic meat with bones once a week and an abundance of water.<br />
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In this experiment almost 1,200 rats were watched from birth to the twenty-seventh month, an age in the rat which corresponds to that of about fifty years in a man. At this stage the Hunza-diet-fed rats were killed and carefully examined. McCarrison's report was remarkable:<br />
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"During the past two and a quarter years there has been no case of illness in this 'universe' of albino rats, no death from natural causes in the adult stock, and but for a few accidental deaths no infantile mortality. Both clinically and at post-mortem, examination of this stock has been shown to be remarkably free from disease. It may be that some of them have cryptic disease of one kind or another, but if so, I have failed to find either clinical or microscopical evidence of it."<br />
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His experiment did not however stop there. Next he took DISEASED rats and placed them too on the Hunza diet. They all became well. Then he took batches of rats and placed them in clean, comfortable surroundings and fed them the food of modern processed western diet. The rats were soon plagued with diseases and miseries of many kinds (much like so many people are today). Over two thousand rats fed on modern processed diet developed eye ailments, ulcers, boils, bad teeth, crooked spines, loss of hair, amenia, skin disorders, heart, kidney and glandular weaknesses and a multitude of gastrointestinal disorders.<br />
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In later experiments, McCarrison gave a set of rats the diet of the poorer classes of England that consisted of white bread, margarine, sweetened tea, white sugar, tinned meats and inexpensive jams and jellies. On this diet, not only did the rats develop all kinds of disease conditions, but they became nervous wrecks: "They were nervous and apt to bite their attendants, they lived unhappily together and by the sixteenth day of the experiment they began to kill and eat the weaker ones amongst them."<br />
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These experiments clearly show that diet has a huge impact on mental, emotional and physical health.<br />
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<b>Final thoughts</b><br />
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Clearly we can see that diet is of paramount importance in preventing illness and treating disease.<br />
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By saturating our body with organic, mineral and vitamin rich foods we can not only reverse disease but totally avoid future illness. This is clearly proven by the diet of the hunza people and the experiments of the albino rats.<br />
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Even though it isn’t possible for us to go live in the Himalayan Mountains, what we can do it is invest our money into organic healthy foods simular in principle to the hunzas.<br />
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Author's bio: Jeremy Carew-Reid is a natural healer in Ayurvedic medicine.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">2. Shigar Fort Residence</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">4. Serena Islamabad</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">5. Banjosa Lake</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">6. PC Gwadar Beach Resort</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">7. Carlton Hotel Resort</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d9ead3;">8. Nathiagali Pines</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-6dyxnrPLW7T-1jFrFv3F6qnfZw6x-vz8gBg9SMf7lD5hhwav83er_jK5eQIwpav4AYhjmxd6CxNFzUSDKMn-dYrCPT_nqqvzbjEjgWRuCxz3lfvjYRXfAAb2Mh52bDkhYwAZ163sZM/s1600/beach+luxury+karachi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-6dyxnrPLW7T-1jFrFv3F6qnfZw6x-vz8gBg9SMf7lD5hhwav83er_jK5eQIwpav4AYhjmxd6CxNFzUSDKMn-dYrCPT_nqqvzbjEjgWRuCxz3lfvjYRXfAAb2Mh52bDkhYwAZ163sZM/s200/beach+luxury+karachi.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Located adjacent to the central banking & business district of Karachi (I.I. Chundrigar Road) and the Port of Karachi, Beach Luxury Hotel Resort is set amongst lush tropical gardens and palm trees, offering unique views of the creek leading to Karachi Harbour, 100 acres of natural mangroves, variety of birds in their natural setting and the most fabulous winter setting sun!<br />
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Shangrila was named after a book titled "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton. In the novel, the author narrates a tale in which an aeroplane crash landed near a riverbed, in the early 1920's. The surviving passengers came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple and sought their help. They were taken to a beautiful lamasery filled with a variety of fruits and flowers. The monks looked quite young, although they claimed to be hundreds of years old. <br />
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A popularly believed inspiration for Hilton's Shangri-La is the Hunza Valley in Pakistan, close to the Tibetan border, which Hilton visited a few years before Lost Horizon was published. Being an isolated green valley surrounded by mountains, enclosed on the western end of the Himalayas, it closely matches the description in the novel. <br />
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Coordinates 35°25′36″N 75°27′18″E <br />
http://www.shangrilaresorts.com.pk/pages/index.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581860750192526058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599532364733847200.post-906916197655705952010-07-07T06:23:00.000-07:002010-07-07T06:23:36.639-07:00Welcome to My Destination PakistanHello everyone, Welcome to my first post of destination Pakistan. In this Blog I will write about different places in Pakistan followed by their videos and pictures so stay tuned for that.<br />
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