Most famous tourist destinations in Baluchistan

 

Baluchistan is the biggest province of Pakistan consisting up of 44% of its total area, but it is scarcely populated because of which it severely lacks in infrastructure. It is rich in natural beauty, wildlife, mountains and many other resources but due to lack of roads very few of its beautiful locations can be accessed by people. Recently Pakistan government has started to give focus to the tourism industry so we can hope that they will do their part to make these locations accessible to people.

Hanna lake: -

Hanna lake is one of the most famous lake in Baluchistan. It is located 16 kilometers from city of Quetta. Due to easy accessibility many people got there to visit. There is an also a restaurant on the bank ok lake where to can eat under the shadow of huge pine trees. This lake was built by the British in 1890 as a fresh water reservoir. From 2000 -2010 the lake became dry effecting the local wildlife and migratory birds and later in 2011 it was refilled.

Astola island: -

It is small island of 6.7 square kilometer located 39 kilometers from the port of Pasni. It is an inhabited island, its terrain is very tough, its bank is like a steep wall in the sea. Its significance is that it is the only island of Pakistan.

Ziarat

Ziarat city is located in ziarat district,126km away from provincial capital Baluchistan. It has a mountainous region covered in sanober forest. Its climate is cool in summer and is covered in a layer of white snow in winter. It is famous for the Quaid-e-Azam residency where Muhammad Ali Jinnah spend his last two and half month of his life. This place has been turned into a museum; People come here to visit the house to see how Quaid-e-Azam used to live. It also contains the art gallery filled with Jinnah’s and his family rare pictures. Ziarat is also famous for its apple groves and the hospitality that the locals offer.

Gwadar

Gwadar is a coastal city of Baluchistan, Located at the bank of Arabian sea, 650 km away from Karachi. This city is famous for its sea view. It was a neglected region, just in past decade the development started to take pace due to agreement with China for the city development and its port. It has a beautiful coast line. Most famous beaches of Gwadar are hammerhead beach and Turtle beach, whose name came from the turtles that there every year to lay their eggs. Main occupation of locals is fishing, so it is also famous for its local sea food. Pakistan army constructed a cricket stadium in the basin highest peak Mount batil, which was declared as the most beautiful stadium in the world. It is also famous for the Omani forts and boat building facilities.

Hingol National Park: -

It is the Pakistan biggest National Park with the area of 6100 square kilometer. It is home some very rare wildlife and plants unique to hingol. Most unique thing about this national Park is that has six completely different ecosystems, which contains sea, desert, forest mountains, river, streams and vast plains. Apart from that Hingol is famous for it unique rock formations, you can find there a stone looking like a lady standing an looking in the distant named the princess of hope. You can see a naturally formed sphinx from the rock which exactly look like the sphinx in Egypt built by pharos. It is also famous for its kali Mata Mandir which is estimated to be thousands of year old, every year 20000 to 30000 Hindus gather in the center of hangul park to par