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There are many hill stations in Pakistan, [1] where there is snow in the winter. In the summer, the temperatures are much cooler than the hot areas of Punjab and Sindh.People from all over the country flock to these hill stations to enjoy the snow in winters, and to enjoy the cool summers away from the hot plains.
Margalla Hills National Park (Urdu: مارگلہ پہاڑیاں قومی پارک) is a national park in Pakistan located in Islamabad Capital Territory, near its northern boundary with Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The park includes the Margalla Hills, which form the foothills of the Himalayas, along with Shakarparian Park and Rawal ...
View of the Margalla Hills from Shakarparian Tilla Charouni, highest peak with 1,604 metres (5,262 ft) Daman-e-Koh lookout park in the Margalla Hills, Islamabad. The Margalla Hills (Urdu: مارگلہ پہاڑیاں) are a hill range within the Margalla Hills National Park on the northern edge of Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, just south of Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Murree is connected to Islamabad through Murree Expressway Chairlifts in Murree Murree is full of Pinus roxburghii trees. Murree, or Marhee as it was then called, was first identified as a potential hill station by Major James Abbott in 1847. [a] The town's early development was in 1851 by the President of the Punjab Administrative Board, Sir ...
Galyat (Urdu: گلیات) region, or hill tract, (also written Galliat and Galiyat) [1] is a narrow strip or area roughly 50 km (31 mi)–80 km (50 mi) north-east of Islamabad, Pakistan, extending on both sides of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Punjab border, between Abbottabad and Murree. [2]
Shakarparian (Urdu: شکر پڑیاں; also known as Shakarparian Hills) is a hill and a national park located near the Zero Point Interchange in Islamabad, Pakistan. [1] Pakistan Monument and Pakistan Monument Museum are also located in Shakarparian.
List of hill stations in Pakistan This page was last edited on 6 June 2020, at 14:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India: high refuge to hill station, and hill station to town. The first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new hill stations, with the main impetus being "places to rest and ...