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| Trail 5 Margalla Hills |
One of the most popular and best tracks
is located at F-5 Margalla Road Islamabad. This track is almost 3.8 km long,
divided into three routes. First route of 1.8 km is simple and straight to hick
as there is no steep path and route is clear from rocks, this route leads to
the spring where hikers can fill their bottles with cold water stream.
There is steep route as well also known
as “trail 5 dangerous”. So, it gives a good combination of tough and relax
time. “Trail 5 dangerous” has steep slippery path and it is highly not
recommended for beginners to use and as well as not to return from this track
especially.
My journey to trail 5 started with
group of my Comsian fellows. We were 15 people, bunked the International
Relation class and gather at trail 5 for getting out of monotonous routine. We
started our hiking session at 0900 PST in crew form. All mates were wearing joggers, highly motivated
as they were mentally ready for 3 hours continuous hike session.
Initially route was like piece of cake,
everybody passed it easily. After 1.5 hours of hick we decided to take break
for 30 minutes near water spring as everybody were exhausted. So, we filled our
bottles here and opened our lunch boxes for restoring the drained energy. After the break, again hiking session
begins. Our group was divided into 2
directions, one towards normal track and other towards dangerous track. I opted
towards dangerous track as it was shortcut for reaching near Pir Sohawa road. It
was in short million-dollar view from the curve of the steep mountain, where
one can observe the nature closely.
There were monkeys spotted at track, it
is highly recommended to hold stick or teaser to avoid any sort of unfortunate
accident. Though chances are very less, but still accident can be happened
anytime and after all it’s a wild animal. (P.S The boy climbing at tree is
Sedrick J Nicholson who was our CR at that time.)
The moment we reached Pir Sohawa Road
was not less than “EID” for us, after 4 hours of hick we were able to reach
this place. At the point everybody was just like, now no more steps! So, we decided
to hire careem/uber. Unfortunately, our 3g was not working at that point so we
decided for plan B. Plan B was to find some lift! 15 people were fitted in 3
vehicles successfully and were dropped at “Monal Resturant”.
At Monal, the moment we sit for lunch
each and every person consumed almost one liter of water. After 15 minutes
order was placed in which we ordered chicken karahi, malai boti, chappati,
lasagnia, pizza and sandwiches. Gossip
session started till the arrival of our food! The level of hunger was at its
peak and my fellows were like “Kab Ayay Ga Order”. Finally, after 30 mins order
was placed and yes it was amazing.
After having food from Monal, we
departed from Monal by hiring a single cabinet. All fellows were settled in
back of Cabin. It was really an amazing trip and a day well spent with best
people of that time. I didn’t remember what I ve studied in my IR Class but i
do remember this day, and it is one of the golden day of my life.