Photo feature: Round trip to Murree

Today I went with my family for shopping and after scanning Islamabad's Blue Area business district, Jinnah, Super market, Super Market and Melody Market, I suddenly decided to drive to Murree to spend a few hours.

Murree is a hill resort (elevation 7,517 feet), about 50 kilometers northeast of capital Islamabad, which offers cool weather, pine trees, clouds and scenery and is thronged by people from across Pakistan during summer (June-August).

Since getting my car converted to CNG (compressed natural gas), I had checked it on Pir Shoawa track in Islamabad's Margalla hills, but not Murree. Though the last gas I filled from F-6 PSO, gave jerks and killed the engine whenever it ran low or during idling and turning. It never happened before, still the car (a 1298cc Toyota xli 2005 with 2NZ-FE engine, 32Kms driven) went very well on CNG and did the round trip to Murree. The AC was als on till Taret. With all the climb and four people in the car, it still gave me 173kms in 56kg cylinder, I had run just 66 kms in Islamabad with the last fill.

On way back, I unknowingly hit the new Islamabad-Murree dual carriage way and wow, it is an amazing track, wide and beautiful all the way to Bharah Kahu toll plaza.

So here are few pix. I had set the resolution to 860x480 and forget to increase it, so the quality would not be as good as my cam usually gives.