On October 2nd, I decided to leave my cell-like room of Islamabad's Youth Hostel, probably the most soulless hostel I've ever been. Before leaving, as I was still sick, I popped an immodium in the hope that it would last 5 hours. I took a cab to the nearest bus station and got a ticket to Lahore. The bus left immediately and it took a whole 5 hours to get to Lahore, through the Punjabi plain. The land seems very fertile, it is no surprise that the majority of Pakistan's population live in Punjab. The bus station was at the outskirts of Lahore so I had to take a rickshaw to downtown but he got lost and we got stuck in traffic so it took almost an hour. First impressions of Lahore: HOT, very polluted and
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