Islamabad cont.

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Another day was spent catching up on sleep, eating and checking our gear for the climb. We had a nice tour of the city last night with stops at the Pakistan Monument in the middle of the city.

Ramadan is in full swing so we were about the only ones there which was very cool. Then we visited the largest mosque in the city that apparently holds 74k people inside... and another 200k outside...

 It was a beautiful place to see. Then it was time for another meal and we found a great local restaurant with a wonderful buffet... everyone packed it on Islamabad Style!

Tom goes big at the buffet!

There was also the opportunity to try on some of the local headwear... Mirza and I were the male models!

Stylin!

There was no flight this am to Skardu due to bad weather.. we are crossing our fingers that we can get a flight this afternoon or tomorrow to avoid the 30 hour trip by bus on the Karakoram Highway...Inshala (God willing) we will get a flight!!!