Guidelet: Murree - Queen of Hills
A travel guide to Murree, Punjab, Pakistan | Target Market: everyone | A travel guide by: Ayesha Iftikhar
Murree is One of the most visiting hill station of Pakistan. For those who live downwards to it Murree is like a fantasy city. People from all over the country visit this beautiful hill resort to escape from the sweltering heat. Mountains covered with lush green trees, cold atmosphere, fresh air, beautiful valleys and most importantly clouds on the roads hugging you with full of happiness.
Summary of points of interest in this travel guide to Murree, Punjab, Pakistan
The Mall road
Why visit:
Mall road is the famous market place in Murree. A road full of life, hotels, restaurants, handicraft shops and happy faces. People who visit Murree, get their rooms on Mall road. This is the place where people just walk till 2am or 3am in morning and enjoy the beautiful weather.It has bazaar downstairs, like 10 feet below the main Mall road. This is a place of shopping for visitors. Mall road is used to walk around and to have food.a day,lunch,dinner,night option
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Pindi point
Why visit:
Pindi point is one of the prime points to visit in Murree. It is 15 minutes walk from mall road. It has a beautiful view of vallies and mountains. You can see Pindi city from there. Chairlift rides go down 1.5 km from Pindi Point to Bansara Gali are really enjoyable. Scenary from chair lift is magnificent. Zigzag road passes below. Great pine trees stand throughout the journey makes this visit worth the while.a day,lunch option
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Kashmir Point
Why visit:
It has a beautiful sight seeing. You can see Kashmir mountains from this point. It is the highest spot in Murree and due to increasing rush on Mall road, this point is taking visitor’s attention day by day.a day,lunch option
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Patriata - New murree
Why visit:
New Murree is about 15 kilometer away from main Murree hills on the Lower Topa side. It is a well developed hill station with great high rised trees, beautiful hills.This is famous due to chair lift, which worth a ride. A world class chair lift & cable car system takes you from New Murree to Patriata. Total ride is about 7 km long. New Murree is on ground level between the hills.a day,lunch option
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River Neelam
Why visit:
It is a nice place to have a picnic. People use to have snack and lunch at the corner of this river or sometimes in it. One can feel the cold wind and cool water which tends to be the best thing in summer. Enjoy the journey to this river Neelam, Mountains covered with lush green trees and high slopes of mountains creates an eye catching view.a day option
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PC bhurban
Why visit:
Bhurban, boosting with five star Pearl Continental Hotel owned by Pakistan’s best hotel chain and a nine hole Golf course has cropped recently as another tourist attraction in Murree area. Lying at an altitude of 6000 ft, Bhurban is situated at a distance of 13 kilometers from Murree on one of main roads leading to Azad Kashmir.a day,lunch,dinner,night option
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Kuldana
Why visit:
Kuldana is the name of an extremely beautiful hill, which spreads over a lush green area of about five square kilometers. The area is densely populated by a large variety of trees and plants and inhabited by various kinds of wild life species specially birds, butterflies and monkeys. At times snow leopards, cheetahs and jackals can also be seen crossing roads and tracks.a day option
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upper topa and lower topa
Why visit:
Upper Topa and Lower Topa comprise the Murree Hills in Murree. Established by the British during their rule of the subcontinent, it is located at an altitude of 7000 ft and provides a pleasant getaway for tourists in the scorching summer. The winter season often covers Upper Topa with a blanket of snow. Upper Topa and Lower Topa comprise the Murree Hills in Murree.a day option
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Galiyaat
Why visit:
The Galiyat are popular due to the cool weather and beautiful scenery. They are also very closely located to areas with high population.The mountains are covered by thick pine forests which give the Galiyat a unique character. It is one of the greenest areas of Pakistan and receives better rainfall than most areas. The resorts were developed by the British and you will see a lot of colonial influence there.a day option
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Darya Gali
Why visit:
Darya Gali is a village and union council of Murree Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab. It is located in the north of the Murree and is bounded to the north by the North-West Frontier Province, to the south by Ghora Gali and Murree-and to the west by Rawat.a day option
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Rawat Murree
Why visit:
Rawat is a village and union council of Murree Tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab. It is located near to the border with North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir. The tourist resort of Bhurban is located here.a day option
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Ghora Gali
Why visit:
The visitors pass Samli sanatorium and the Ghora Gali (elevation 5,000 ft ),known as such because this place was used for the changing of horses used for carriages operating between Rawalpindi-Murree and further on to Srinagar (Kashmir)during the British period. TDCP construct a restaurant in-between the natural sceneries for tourist. The snake bar and all other facilities are available here.a day,lunch option
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Nathia Gali
Why visit:
The most centrally placed and the most well known of the Galis is Nathiagali. Nathiagali is situated at equidistance of 35 kilometers from Murree as well as Abbottabad at an attitude of 8400 feet. It provides splendid scenic views and commands a fine view of the snow-capped peaks of Kashmir and Kohistan on one side and the Pothwar Plain on the other.a day,lunch,dinner,night option
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Kala Bagh Point
Why visit:
A little up from Nathia Gali bazar, at the top of the hill is situated “Green Spot”. Actually this is a Pakistan Air Force reserved area, but it is open for tourists and families.a day option
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Baragali
Why visit:
From Nathiagali to Abbottabad the road runs down from about 9000 ft. to 4500 ft. About three miles down there lies Baragali a small hill station, located at an altitude of 7,900 ft/2408 kms.a day,lunch option
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Ayubia
Why visit:
Ayubia has become the most important spot in the Galliat after Nathiagali. In 1984 an area of 1,684 hectares of mountain forest was declared as a national park, with the aim of preserving the beautiful forest and biodiversity. The park area was expanded through a northern extension in 1998 to 3,312 hectares.a day option
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Ghora Daka
Why visit:
The chairlifts provided at Ghora Daka is a matter of great attraction. They take you above to the peak of forsted hills. There are Green, wooded mountains and steep precipices on one side and tall, majestic pines on the other. Wild life, including bear, cheetah, monkeys and a great variety of birds is known to be found in the thickly afforested slopes. Top point is called “Neelam View” because River Neelam of Kashmir can be viewed from here.a day,lunch option
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Khanspur Murree
Why visit:
Three kilometer down the road from Ayubia is old summer resort of Khanspur. Khanspur is a part of the Ayubia National Park and Reserve Forest. The area is a good example of moist (lesser) Himalayan temperate forest in Pakistan. Terraced agricultural fields are located mostly on valley bottoms. The holdings are very small. Grassland and forest occur on steeper slopes and are proportionally more widespread.a day option
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Khairagali
Why visit:
The road from Murree to Nathiagali is like travel into paradise. Going through top of one of the most beautiful mountains in the world. There are lush green alpine forest all along the road. Throughout the journey one enjoys panoramic view of snow clad Pir Panjal and other ranges in Kashmir . There are a number of small dwellings all along, where one can stay and rest.a day option
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Changlagali
Why visit:
hangle peak commands, on the one side a fine view of the Jhelum Valley, on the other side it presents a strikingly panoramic of the Murree hills, the southern portion of the Hazara district and the distant plains of Rawalpindi. Changlagali is the highest point in the Murree Galliat area which is accessible by road.a day,night option
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Mushkpuri Top
Why visit:
Mushkpuri Hill, the second highest hill in Galiyat, above 9,000 feet sea level. This may be one of the closest places where you can gain such height. Starting from Pines Hotel NathiaGali or Dewan House DungaGali, the trek passes upward through lush green forests. Beautiful Daisies dance and swing to greet the hiker and sets the romantic charm, specially in the rainy weather with hide and seek of the scenery is all around you.a day option
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Dunga Gali
Why visit:
From Ayubia visitors returns to Murree-Nathiagali Road and climb further for about three miles and then jumps in view Dunga Gali. Dungagali is a picturesque small resort situated on the slopes of the Mushkpuri hill (2376 m.). It commands a charming view of a series of wooded spurs projecting towards the river Jhelum on the western side.a day option
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