Peshawar is one of the beautiful cities of Pakistan situated in the center of North West Frontier Province. The city is located close to the Khyber Pass. During 58 BC, Peshawar was the capital of Gandhara Empire. Peshawar is widely known for rich cultural and historical significance. Peshawar is also well known as a shopping site. One can shop Afghan jewellery, wood carvings, handicrafts, fabrics and spices.
Peshawar Travel gives comprehensive traveling information about how to travel to Peshawar.
While traveling to Peshawar by air the tourists can get flights from Peshawar International Airport situated in the city. Airlines of the Middle East like Emirates, Kuwait, Etihad, Gulf, Qatar serves the International Airport of Peshawar. One can even get direct international flights from this airport to Kabul, Bahrain, Doha, Riyadh, Muscat, Jeddah, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Al Din. The American, Asian and European flights also land in this airport via the Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore airports. From this airport domestic fights fly to and from Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
Peshawar can be reached by trains available with Pakistan Railway. It takes about 36 hours to reach by train from Karachi and from Quetta it takes 25 hours. These trains come via Rawalpindi and Lahore.
Bus services are available in different parts of Pakistan. One such service is run by 'Daewoo' bus service which runs through Islamabad,
Multan, Lahore, Rawalpindi.
Peshawar Rugs
Peshawar Rugs are carpets, which are designed artistically.
Peshawar Rugs is made up of cotton or wool. 'Chobi', a carpet is a kind of hand loomed variety. This type of carpet is very popular. Traditionally, these carpets were made of hand woven wool and the color used was drawn out from vegetables and plants.
Peshawar Rugs looks similar to the rugs of Persia. Ghazni wool is specially used to provide a smooth finishing touch to the carpet.
Peshawar rugs come in rectangular and round shape.
Peshawar Airport
Both domestic and international flights are provided to and from
Peshawar Airport. This airport is situated in Peshawar Pakistan. Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority operates this airport. The run way length of
Peshawar airport is 9000 feet. PEW is the airport code. The total number of domestic and international flights that operate from this airport is 55 and 50 respectively.
Peshawar Airport serves 13,732 travelers per week.
