DAY 106 - LAHORE DAY 3

The sun sets over Lahore Fort

Today we spent most of our time in a nearby hotel trying to organize the car ferry from Iran to the United Arab Emirates. The ferry company we were dealing with didn’t speak much English so we even had to find someone who spoke Persian to talk and translate for us. We established loose dates for the sailing and realized that we had bit more time than we thought so we could stay a bit longer in Pakistan where Ali wanted to bring us to Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, a city we hadn’t intended on visiting. There had been a few bombings there in recent weeks and earlier on we jokingly decided that any city whose name contains the words ‘Islam’ and ‘Bad’ couldn’t be too safe!

Our Pakistani Legend Ali

That evening, Ali brought us to a surprisingly chic steakhouse in Lahore where we had a great feed for next to nothing. We’ve been really surprised by what’s available in Lahore and it’s standard of living and relative organisation here in comparison to India. We didn’t really know what to expect in Lahore but we’ve really been pleasantly surprised.