CURRENT MISSION Travel the world, understanding cultures, learning new cooking recipes! ABOUT ME My wife and I welcome you to our couch surfing profile. We live in Lahore in our family house in Samanabad. We are a retired couple so we have plenty of time to meet you, show you around our city and treat you well as our guest. We are the parents of Umer Durrani, who introduced us to couch surfing.
Interested in Books & Literature
Interested in Cooking
Fluent in English
12 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Here is some USEFUL INFORMATION for travellers coming by land from IRAN to PAKISTAN: As you would be coming from South-West Pakistan to North-East in order to continue to India. I recommend you to take the following Route as my son did in 2005. Once you are in Taftan, there is a bus that goes in max. 650 Pakistan Rupees (10$) from Taftan to Quetta. It takes about 17 hours!!! There are also hired 6 seater cars that take 12 hours but they are more expensive. You need to check the prices but make sure no one robs or over charges you ;) Moreover, the best place to change the Irani currency is in Taftan - NOT in Mirjaveh (the iranian side of the border). Make sure you do NOT make a mistake between the exchange rate of Iranian Rial with Pakistani Rupee because usually the exchange rate is quoted in Iranian Tumman (10 Rial = 1 Iranian Tumman) so the clever traders try to cheat the foreigners with one ZERO that makes a HUGE DIFFERENCE! It is difficult to exchange iranian currency anywhere else in Pakistan. If you do find a trader, he might not give you a good rate that you might find from one of the traders at the border. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE We have hosted several people from Germany, Spain, Norway, Indonesia, France & Switzerland in our house. We have been hosted in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary and Austria.
My Interests
Travelling, Cooking, Movies, Books, etc.
