Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Weekend in Lahore

I went to a Pakistan Orientation in Lahore this past weekend. It was a great time of fellowship and learning more about the country's history, politics, religion, culture, etc, etc...
The place where we stayed had a beautiful garden, and there was lots of new wildlife around, including a pair of nesting falcons! I took more pictures of animals than anything else, so here they are:




This is some African bird which people were calling something like a "Hoosa." A whatsa? I don't know.


To make me feel as if I were camping in Yosemite, there were plenty of wild chipmunks running all over the campus.



I'd been trying to get a picture of this falcon all morning, and had just about given up, when I wandered on to the basketball courts and he was just sitting right there!



The next day, this one was sitting up on the phone wire, squaking at the other, who was gathering twigs and such to build a nest in a tree near by.


On the bus ride home, we stopped at this truck stop, which had a Pakistani restaurant, a KFC, and... a Subway! You can barely make out their sign on the far right of this picture. I was so excited to go in and be able to say "a 6 inch on Italian, please." Even if I did have to repeat it a few times...

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