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Eco & Nature in Punjab
Nature-based travel for guests who want clean air, slower routes, better local context, and a lighter footprint.
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Punjab
Eco & Nature in Punjab
Forests, valleys, lakes, and low-impact discovery
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Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore
Lahore's old Lawrence Gardens, a 19th-century botanical garden on The Mall beside the zoo.
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Changa Manga Forest
One of the oldest hand-planted forests in the world, laid out in 1866 about 74 km from Lahore.
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Chinji Reserve Forest
A 15,000-acre national park of eroded ravines near the Salt Range, home to the Punjab urial.
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Greater Iqbal Park
The 329-acre park around Minar-e-Pakistan, where the Lahore Resolution was passed in 1940.
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Kala Chitta National Park
The “black and white” hills of Attock, a 91,000-acre national park famous for fossil whales.
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Kamran's Garden, Lahore
A Mughal pavilion of 1540 in the Ravi, believed to be the oldest Mughal building in Lahore.
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Kheri Murat Reserve Forest
Scrub-forest hills near Fateh Jang on the edge of the Kala Chitta range, a national park since 2020.
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Pabbi and Rasul Reserve Forest
A 147 km² protected thorn forest in the Pothohar foothills, declared a national park in 2023.
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Salt Range National Park
A 43,000-acre park in the Salt Range of Chakwal, the hills of Khewra salt and Punjab urial.
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Tilla Reserve Forest
The forested Tilla Jogian hill in Jhelum District, crowned by an abandoned complex of jogi temples.
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Salt Range and Khewra Salt Mine
UNESCO tentative Salt Range landscape and one of the world's best-known salt mines.
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Murree & the Galiyat
Pakistan's most popular hill station, pine ridges, the Mall Road, and a gateway to the cooler Galiyat resorts.
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Soon Sakesar Valley
A green upland valley in the Salt Range overlooked by the Sakesar plateau, with lakes like Khabeki and Uchhali, a quiet wetland and birdwatching pocket of Punjab.
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Bhurban
A hill-station resort area above Murree on the Murree Expressway, pine forest, a golf course, and cloud-wreathed valley views.
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Patriata (New Murree)
A chairlift and cable car up a pine ridge south of Murree, with an amusement park at the top, one of the most popular family stops on the Murree Expressway.
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Kohala Bridge
The historic two-lane bridge over the fast, turquoise Jhelum River, the gateway from Punjab into Azad Jammu and Kashmir, with riverside restaurants known for white trout.
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Kallar Kahar Lake
A saltwater lake ringed by Salt Range hills just off the M2 motorway in Chakwal, long a popular boating and picnic stop with resident peacocks on its gardens, roughly equidistant from Lahore and Islamabad.
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Lal Suhanra National Park
A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1977 spanning some 51,000 hectares east of Bahawalpur, combining desert, forest, and the wetland of Patisar Lake, home to reintroduced blackbuck, chinkara, and more than 160 recorded bird species.
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Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi
A 300-plus-acre park on Rawalpindi's Grand Trunk Road, converted from the colonial-era Topi Rakh forest in 1959 into the twin cities' largest green space, with boating lakes, gardens, and a small zoo.
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Thal Desert
The Thal Desert of Punjab: 310 km of shifting dunes between the Indus and the Jhelum–Chenab plains, south of the Salt Range.
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Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore: 67 acres of lawns, a large lake, rides and a mini-zoo — a favourite family park.
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