DAY 97 - LAHORE

97) SUNDAY, 2 OCTOBER 1977 : 273KMS. - LAHORE

Last night I did not sleep well  because the mosquito invaded us (!) as we left back door slightly opened and it was very hot of approximately 30 *C ( at night) though we turned the fan on almost constantly.

We left RAWALPINDI and drove passing  JHELUM, LALA MUSA, GUJARANWALA  to LAHORE , a far larger city. There were large trees along the road looking  more refreshed . There were large international hotel s, such as Hilton and Intercontinental.

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In the afternoon we chose to have Chinese food for lunch, which seemed to us more tasty  than Indian food. We asked for beef with chilli and prawns with fresh vegetables.  It was delicious, we paid  nearly 60.- RS. (1 DM = 4 RS.).

On the way to LAHORE, we saw strange landscape something  like landslide probably due to seismic collapse as it is not flatland. I saw  women walking  with 1-2 stacked clay pots on their heads  to get some water  from the source nearby, without  using hands to carry them.

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From Wikipedia

The Lahore Museum was established in 1864 in Lahore on Mall Road in front of Punjab university. the current building of Lahore Museum was designed by famous architect Sir Ganga Ram.Lahore Museum is one of the biggest museum of the country.it has large collections of pre-historic and historic period.

The Museum contains some fine specimens of Mughal and Sikh door-ways and wood-work and contains a large collection of paintings dating back to the Mughal, Sikh and British eras. The Museum has a collection of musical instruments, ancient jewellery, textiles, pottery, and armory. There are relics from the Graeco-Bactrian times as well as well as some Tibetan and Nepalese work. The museum has a number of objects of Greco-Buddhist sculptures, Mughal and Pahari paintings on display. The Fasting Buddha is one of the unique collections of the museum — in 2004 Nobuaki Tanaka, the Japanese ambassador, agreed to provide technical know how as the Buddha is popular with Japanese tourists.