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Events / February
Punjab
Pakistan's largest motorsport event, a multi-day off-road rally across the Cholistan dunes, staged around the great Derawar Fort.
Held each February near Bahawalpur, the Cholistan Jeep Rally draws hundreds of drivers and huge crowds to the desert. Racing is paired with a cultural festival of folk music, food, and the floodlit silhouette of Derawar Fort.
Days of qualifying and racing across open dunes, with a festival atmosphere of stalls, music, and camping. Dust, heat by midday, and big crowds at the start line are part of it, come prepared and follow marshals around the track.
The rally is inseparable from Derawar, the vast square fort whose forty bastions rise straight from the sand. It is one of Pakistan's most striking heritage sights, and the festival's natural centrepiece.
Cholistan is a living desert with local communities and herders. Travel with a guide, carry water, and keep to the rally and visitor areas rather than driving off across grazing land.
February
Lahore's spring kite festival, rooftops and skies fill with colour to welcome the end of winter.
March
Lahore's “Festival of Lights”, the Urs of the Sufi poet Shah Hussain, celebrated with lamps, music, and devotion.
14 March
Bhangra, giddha, folk poetry, and a full Punjabi table, a spirited celebration of Punjab's living heritage.
