Exploring the Historical Places of Lahore | An Educational Trip

Trips are a source of recreation for everyone. People go on trips according to their own taste like some people love to visit mountains, some love to explore historical places and some love to visit ancient places. Today I opened my laptop and saw my memories of school life. When I was in Grade 10th, our school arranged a trip to Lahore for the 9th and 10th classes. It was a type of educational trip in which we got a chance to visit the historical places of Lahore and learnt a lot about them. I along with my friends decided to go on trip as we would be able to make uncountable memories on this and it would be the last trip of our school life.
So the next day, the buses departed at 5am in the morning. All the boys were excited including me as I had never visited Lahore before.

After two hours of travelling, we reached Minar e Pakistan. Minar-e-Pakistan is a national monument located in Lahore, Pakistan. The tower was built between 1960 and 1968 on the site where the All-India Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution on 23 March 1940 - the first official call for a separate and independent homeland for the Muslims of British India, as espoused by the two-nation theory. The resolution eventually helped lead to the emergence of an independent Pakistani state in 1947. Its height is about 70metres above the ground. Our teachers gave only few minutes to stay here because we had to cover most of the historical places in a single day.

Beside the Minar e Pakistan, there is Badshahi Mosque. The Badshahi Mosque is a Mughal era Masjid. The mosque is located west of Lahore Fort along the outskirts of the Walled City of Lahore. Minar e Pakistan is located at the northern side of Badshahi Mosque. Badshahi Mosque is the 2 largest Mosque of Pakistan. It has the capacity of 100,000 worshippers to pray in the mosque at a time. It has a beautiful carved interior which shows the professionalism of the people of that age.

I captured Minar e Pakistan from one of the windows of Badshahi Mosque.

After visiting the Badshahi Mosque, we sat in the bus and headed towards the Delhi Gate. There was no rush as we it was Saturday and the shops were still closed because we reached there early. Delhi Gate is one of six remaining historic gates of the Walled City of Lahore. Delhi Gate and the adjacent Shahi Hammam
were restored in 2015 by the Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan.

After visiting Delhi Gate, we headed towards the Androon (Interior) Lahore which was our main destination having much history behind itself. We went inside the Androon Lahore and started exploring the things. First of all, we visited the Sabeel Wali Gali.

Then we went towards the Akhuwat Foundation’s first office from where it was started in 2001.

We were not allowed to stop at any place, so we kept on moving and tried to capture them at least in our mobile phones. We visited and explored alot. Then we went at a shop and the shop keeper was having the cultural and traditional items. There were many old doors of the Mughal Era. A shopkeeper was selling paintings and some books related to the history.

Some students wasted much time here as they got lost in a street.

So when they returned, we took our seats in the bus and went to Masjid Wazir Khan.

The Wazir Khan Mosque is 17th century mosque located in the city of Lahore. The mosque was commissioned during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as part of an ensemble of buildings that also included the nearby Shahi Hammam baths. Construction of Wazir Khan Mosque began in 1634 and was completed in 1641. The mosque was really impressive and its work was still in real condition. Here, my mobile ran out of charging and it became dead. So I took help from my friend and captured some pictures in his mobile.

Now we were feeling hungry, so we asked our teachers and they told us that had arranged a dinner for us at Bundu Khan Restaurant. So we went to Bundu Khan and enjoyed the meal. Believe me it was very lavish and we ate it to our fill.

After having dinner, it was getting dark and we were left with only two spots. So we again reached Badshahi Mosque and enjoyed its night view.

Then we went towards Lahore Fort which is the first historical reference to a fort at the site is from the 11th century during the rule of Mahmud of Ghazni. It was giving a beautiful view at night and there was not even a single person there.

After visiting maximum places, our teachers gathered the students and took their reviews. I enjoyed this trip alot and it would be a memorable trip for me forever. Then we went to our buses and left for our school.

Thankyou all for reading.
All of these pictures are original and taken by me on Samsung S6 and on my friend’s Iphone 7.