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i’m dying to read the book which is lying on my table from 2 days and I don’t have time even to touch it…forget reading. it’s a travelogue about the Northern Areas. ya i’m going to yet another trip of NA in the summer. and this time the trip is gonna be rougher and harder. we’ll be doing lots of hiking, trekking and of course camping. more abt it later.

I was going to my friend’s place when I saw the moon leveled with my eye-line right on the horizon and i was stunned to see it. It was a full moon and it was none less than 5 times bigger than what we usually see high on the sky. Then i searched a bit on the internet and found a very good article here. The phenomenon ia called Moon Illusion and scientists are yet to agree upon any theory. But the one thing they agree on is that the moon does not physically change its size or distance from Earth as it moves across the sky. It’s all in our heads. So when any of u see it, don’t just suspect that there is something wrong with ur sighting; believe it.

I came to know about another addition in the wiki list, wikitravel. wikis r always been a good source of information for ppl who wants quick info abt anything, though it is not considered very reliable but still it has become a commonplace. it was blocked in Pakistan sometime back coz of some unexplained reasons; maybe coz of the easy and free access to all the info; which is not considered a good thing here.

Now a bit about wikitravel. Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable(as they say) world-wide travel guide. It is built in collaboration by Wikitravellers from around the globe. I found only a few articles abt Pakistan on wikitravel, so I decided to share some of my knowledge and traveling experiences of the Northern Area of Pakistan. Right now I’m working on the main page for the Northern Area. This page was started by me and still in its very early stage. i want all of u to contribute ur information about various places of Pakistan and help making the soft image of our Homeland. c ya at Wikitravel.