7 Complaints of A Wanderlust Lover Living In Pakistan!

Traveling is fun. I picture most of you reading this and nodding your heads. Going to Ulaanbaatar or planning to explore the Northern areas of Pakistan, you want fun and adventure to be filled till the brim. Lots of things make your trip exciting but few things are indispensable to a rocking one and are NOT available to us in Pakistan.

The following limitations literally make traveling a mountainous size of a task for an average Ali or Ayesha who love to travel but find it hard as a Pakistani. Therefore, are found either lay comatose in their couch glued to TV, watching those sitcoms or posting NONSTOP selfies on Facebook.

Let me whine and complain via listing down what we are missing out on TERRIBLY:

1. Recreational Vehicles RVs:

Quintessentially a feather belonging to the US cap, this home-on-wheels can literally make venturing to the little known of the woods or deserts an amazing experience. You are too lucky to own one or even rent one. Sadly, we cannot avail either of the options. Can someone introduce this here too please!?!

2. Security Concerns:

Undoubtedly, we have fought bravely against terrorism, nevertheless, you still find yourself being questioned about your sanity if you have dared to think of traveling on your own to see the unexplored Baluchistan. 

3. Road Infrastructure:

Planning to go up North? Make sure your car is in the best possible condition else you won't be able to see the meadows and lakes. We are in dire need to have a better road infrastructure all over the country, especially in the Northern part.

4. Better Motels/Stop Overs:

We don't have them around. Yes. Somebody please do something about it. All of us want to relax a bit and then move forward. Don't we deserve some quality standard of motels and stop overs?

5. Tourist Attractions Fading Away:

Already dimming, concept of tourism is being scourged further by political parties that are not ready to pay any attention in the conservation and maintenance of places which would once attract people from all over the world. Subsequently, locals feel deprived too.

6. Recreational Activities:  

Concept of camping and adventurous sports is not too common and hence a limited number of options are available when it comes to enjoying vacation to the hilt. Sky diving or desert safari, zip-lining or coast-steering, sadly, we don't have anything here.

7. Hassle of Getting A Visa:

Finally, when we give-up on the idea of exploring within Pakistan, we start to look for the places outside Pakistan but get stuck here too. Not going through an anxious and tedious process of becoming eligible to travel somewhere saves lots of time and energy. I mean how incredibly it would be easy to merely pack our suitcase and cross those borders. Ah-ha moment would be to have at-least half of the world becoming visa free for green passports.

Ras-le-bol - We want the idea of traveling gets easy not queasy!

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