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Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen.

Mark Hertsgaard (via travel-quotes)

Beautifully put. I truly get the same feeling. The more I see the world and the more I travel just increases my restlessness and yearning for exploration. 

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A short time lapse I experimented with during my visit to Sajikot waterfall. Hope you like it. 

Music: Instrumental version of Coldplay’s “Clocks” 

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Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Jose Rizal, “Los Viajes”

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Sajikot Waterfall

I’ll start off my blog’s first travel related entry with a pictorial trip to one of the biggest attraction of the green, hilly and beautiful Haripur district’s Sajikot waterfall.

There are two paths you can take to reach this place, first (which is mostly used) is after crossing Havelian you take a right towards Sajikot. The second, the one that I took, comes from Pir Sohawa and goes on to Jabbri and then from Stora (ستوڑا) you go on towards Sajikot to reach this place. This road is mostly good but there were few patches which were in very bad shape. From Islamabad it takes about 3hr30 mins to reach the spot if going from Pir Sohawa side and abour 4 Hours if you take the Havelian route as it is about 20-30 kms longer. But, be warned that once you are at Jabbri and if you ask for directions make sure that you take the route towards Stora and not the other one which unfortunately the locals had guided me towards. That other route included going through a couple of water streams, a jungle which had only a trekable path and the road was mostly in shambles. It was only because of my small phitpiti (motorcycle) and loads of determination, that I got through it in one piece. But, this route from Jabbri and Stora is more scenic and you get some wonderful panoramic views of the Haripur’s valleys and follow the path along the Haro river which you eventually cross over before Jabbri. There is also a spot for picnic on the left side of the Haro river crossing (the bridge you see me standing on in the pic) where you can go down to the river bed.  

Once there, you have to take a short walk down to the waterfall’s pond. You can either take the path from a small makeshift hotel on one side or go from the back side of the waterfall and end up on the right side of the fall. The pond is very deep in the center and be careful when swimming there. I would recommend bringing life jackets with yourselves. The place is almost not developed yet, which is good in my dictionary, as I prefer places to remain untouched and natural to preserve its beauty. But, unfortunately, with the recent increasing trend of more people visiting the place after seeing a few reports on the media, there is a lot of litter you could see scattered all around. So, please when you go there make sure to bring your garbage back with yourselves instead of spoiling such a beautiful place so carelessly.

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/sAScB

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First impressions...

Why I started this travel blog?

I have a deep and an ever increasing fondness of exploration. You can say that I have been around both within my beautiful country and abroad. This has led me to gain various kinds of knowledge about numerous travel destinations, which I am keen to share with my audience through my own unique perspective.

Coz my mum asked me to :-) 

My motivation and philosophy

My dream, my wish, my drive and my passion is to try at least try to see as much of this whole wide world laid out in front of me as possible.

I have this inner calling, this restlessness to experience and explore all the wonders the nature has to offer and to experience all dimensions of the beauty that our world has to offer.

What’s with the name?

Yes, you may be curious about the name I chose for the blog. Well, I have traveled in all forms of ways but, my favorite one is by a motorbike and it is actually a very small under powered (78cc/ about 2 HP) bike which I quite dexterously drag with myself on all kind of terrains and to all kind of special places. And for those who can’t understand the word PhitPiti (which is mentioned in my national language; Urdu) I would say that it is an old slang word to fondly address your motorbike with. Rest of it, you’ll get the idea in my next post :-)

Accordingly, I shall try to give you a small visual and textual taste of all the places I have been to so far with my humble skills in photography and writing.

Feedback or corrections are welcome.

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