Lets go few thousand years back....

Awais Yaqub

In thousands of years these rocks have wintnessed a lot:
Followers of Buddah, Army of Alexander, Curse of Flesh eating demon and now me. They say these are ruins of oldest civilization on earth. (Google it)

Today these are huge attraction for people of Buddhist belief and lots of them visit the site every year. It is quite well maintained and only at 45min drive from Islamabad the Capital of Pakistan.

There are different old cities (ruins) separated by small distances. Here you can see a Stupa people use to worship around it.

There use to be status of gods on these monuments. Now these statues are in Taxila museum some were taken away by british when british ruled indo Pak region prior to 1947.

It was nothing like sitting on benches under tree shade and thinking about past.






House partitioning



Following are from Julian ruins. 300 stairs bring you to this place full of budah sculptures. This is Buddah Montisory and University.

Here is university area











I heard people of Budhist belief have to visit this site once a life time. If we have any Budhist on board here at dgrin let me know i will love to help you guys to make this trip easy.

It was not a photography trip. I just took my camera along with me to meet a friend. Due to heat it was impossible to take photos under the sun. But i will go there again.

Angelo

excellent series Awais

PeterD-2009

Thanks for sharing the images Awais. Its very interesting to see these sorts of images and the background stories.

Doug Solis

Really nice series. Very interesting. I especially liked your B/W's.

dseidman

Really nice set of images. This is one part of the world that I'd love to visit one day.

thapamd

Lovely series, Awais! Always a pleasure to view your images. Great job!

Awais Yaqub

Hey thanks everyone

You are always welcome to visit Pakistan

Bruce Novotney

Really nice series! It must be wonderful to live among such history. The history in my area rarely goes back over 100 years.

ridgemac

Great shots and information
Although you say these were not from a "photography trip", they are really great shots with and very informative! Thanks for sharing!

coscorrosa

Very interesting story and subject Awais! You got some real good shots even though that wasn't your primary objective.

Awais Yaqub

Hey thank you guys. There are tons of stuff to look around in Pakistan i hope one day i will visit every corner of Pakistan.thumb