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The National Park is the most accessible in Pakistan due to its close proximity to the national capital, Islamabad. It is a significant hub for bird lovers throughout the year. There are several hiking trails (Trail 1, Trail 2, Trail 3, Trail 4, Trail 5, Trail 6, Trail 7 (Shah Allah Dittah)), with the most frequented being Trail 3 and Trail 5. [16]
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.
The campus is located north east of Hill Side Road in sector E-7 of Islamabad, around 1.5 km east of Faisal Mosque, and at the foothills of the Margalla Hills, the westernmost foothills of the Himalayas, putting it at the northernmost end of the city. It is located on an elevated area of land. [2]
The village also serves as the starting point of the Margalla Ridge Trail. Inaugurated on 3 November 2018 as Pakistan's longest single trans-provincial trail, 15 of its 44 km length lies within Islamabad Capital Territory, while the rest passes through districts Abbottabad and Haripur districts of Hazara in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Daman-e-Koh (Urdu: دامن کوہ) is a hilltop garden north of Islamabad. It is in the center of the Margalla Hills. The name is a fusion of two Persian words "Dāman" (دامن) meaning "skirt" and "Kōh" (کوہ) meaning "hill", which collectively denote "foothills". It is about 2400 ft above sea level and about 500 ft above Islamabad.
The road is an alternative to the Srinagar Highway, and provides easy access of the tenth and eleventh sectors of Islamabad to the N-5 National Highway. This road is a crucial section of the larger Rawalpindi Ring Road project as it connects the town of Sangjani (on the N-5 National Highway) to the town of Barakahu (on the Murree Expressway).
1 trillion (US$3.5 billion) to the Pakistani economy. [9] In October 2006, one year after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, The Guardian released a list of "the top five tourist sites in Pakistan" to help the country's tourism industry. [10] The sites included Lahore, the Karakoram Highway, Karimabad and Lake Saiful Muluk. To promote the country's ...
Golra Sharif Railway Museum, also known as Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, is a railway museum located near Sector F-13 of Islamabad, Pakistan. It is located at the Golra Sharif railway station , a junction station in the Rawalpindi Division of Pakistan Railways , located at 1,994 feet above sea level, in the southeast of the Margalla Hills ...