“Pakistan 🇵🇰 ~Nighttime in Lahore”

By 3:30PM in the afternoon, after an afteroom of touring Fort Lahore, and the City during the day, we headed for the bus company that would take us back around Lahore City, to see it after dark.
As is the new normal, after we crossed through the metal detector, and got our temperature taken (COVID19 times), we were also asked to stand still for a photo. “A photo, I asked; Why?” Answer: “So if there is an incident of some kind, we can use the photo for identification.”
Alrighty then, so I said cheese. 😝

The bus was a double-decker, which is always fun, when the weather is nice, because the view is always great! We sat right up front and had the best seats for photo opportunities. Besides the three of us, there were locals tourists, including a few kids on the bus. There were guides, but they were not annoying. There was music, singing and dancing and videos being taken. It was a pleasant group of people.

Ejaz, Daryl and I
Sightseeing Lahore. We recommend!

The evening was super great, and it ended with dinner at a restaurant that overlooked the Badshahi Mosque. After that, we wandered through an area next to the fort, where we had been in the daytime. I got some Chai, and found the way they make it to be most interesting. I appreciate old-world customs that are still practiced. We loaded on the bus, drove back through the very busy City of Lahore, and back where we started.

Not all that long ago, Lahore was the Capital City of Punjab Province in Pakistan.
In in 1846 India Company transferred its powers to the British crown and Lahore became the part of the British Empire in 1900. ,The British rule continued till 1947 when Pakistan was made independent.

With the population of approximately 12 Million it is a lively city. The main attraction of the city is its beautiful Architecture and bustling Bazaars. The tradition of buildings is centuries old in Lahore, but the Moghuls (1500 AD to 1800 AD) have contributed the most to it.
The early history of Lahore is obscure, inauthentic and attributed to myths and tales. Virtually no historical reference of the city is available in travelogues, history books and archaeological excavations historical chronicles do not provide any account of such a city when Alexander’s forces traversed Punjab in 4th century BC.
There could have been a small town or settlement of Hindu “Shahiya” dynasty at the place where modern day Lahore exists, and of which a little reference is available in the travelogue of Chinese traveler, Hieun Triang, who visited India in 630 AD However, within the next few hundred years, Lahore would blossom into a cultural capital of the Indian subcontinent.

The name of Lahore sparkled in historic references in 1021 AD, when Mehmood of Ghazna conquered it from Trilochan Pala, King of Hindu Shahyia Dynasty of Kabul. His famous confidante slave; Ayaz remained in charge of the city and he was the person who actually built the city of Lahore to the zenith of an important town with a mud citadel around it. Lahore for the first time found the importance of the capital of Ghaznavid dominance east of Indus in 1036 AD. and Ayaz, later called Malik Ayaz, the founder of modern Lahore was appointed as Governor or “Hakim.”
The first historic reference about Lahore is also found in a Muslim historian Al beruni’s book Tarikh-ul-Hind. 
Lahore Tower
Our dinner view of the Bradshahi Mosque
Chai for me. The clay cups are heated and sanitized in a fire pit
The hot cup is laid in the bubbly hot brew of of chai. I think this must add a smoky flavors. A clean cup is used to pour the Chai into, and served. It was sure yummy!
This little cutie was a highlight for me. At the end of her cute act, she put the tin pot on her head and went around the crowd for tips. She got a good one from us and I got to pet her. She was bright-eyed, healthy and clean.

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