Specy a la McCain :D
Baraka @ Rickshaw Diaries tagged me and I’m to make a list of ten places in my country where I would want to own a home a la McCain. This is one of the hardest tags I’ve ever done because I couldn’t find ten different places; they all were the same: mountains and greenery. I had to think a good long while because you know what they say about some words being granted as soon as they come out of your mouth! Cross your fingers and here we go!
THE RULES:
The McCains own 13 cars, eight homes and have access to a corporate jet. If you were as insanely rich as them, where would your eight homes be and why?
The only rule is: The homes must be within the borders of the country you live in, so as to utterly emulate the McCains.
When you’re done, tag 8 people, so that they may join in the self-indulgence, forgetting about the crappy property market and the equivalent of The End of Pompeii on Wall-Street. You could spend your time hammering your doors and windows shut in preparation for the Apocalypse, but this meme is so much more fun!
1. Islamabad. Need I say why? 
2. A mansion in the Soan valley just outside Islamabad
3. Nathiagali…more specifically, the Governor House. Now how I may get there is…a problem. I don’t want to be the Governor (yeah, they’re outside my door begging me, y’know) and the last thing in the world I want is to be married to a politician. So, erm…okay… I don’t want to have a governor son/daughter either (*gasp* I sound like my mum!), so whatever. I just dig this place!
4. Neelum Valley: I’d live in a place like this:
and my window will look out on this:
5. Abbottabad.
6. Lahore
7. Karachi…yep, I’m gonna have one in all major cities!
8. Cholistan. Somewhere near the Darrawar Fort.
9. Gwadar. For no other reason than traveling on the Makran Coastal Highway.
Its beautiful; its empty; Has the desert on one side, sea on the other… it makes me itch for a 3200cc Mercedes’ steering, (manual drive, of course). And of course…Gwadar’s a beautiful place to live.
10. Hyderabad. For some reason, I’ve always fancied that city. No reason, really.
The next eight to make a wish-list: Marigold, Saadat, Mubi, Sami, Boba, FalakK, Feesa and ‘Liya.
Oh, and I did 10. Because property in Pakistan is cheaper. 
ooo specy!!!! i have always had this ever growing love for mountains!!! and so shamelessly i admit i so want my window to show me such a view, mountains and a river/sea/lake
*sigh*
and wow, mashAllah Nelaam Valley is such a beauty!!!
dont really share the same enthusiasm for Gwadar perhaps but definitely for abbotabad and mountains and all
p.s like the colour change on ur blog
oh i just noticed i have been tagged *jumping around in joy with a big Colgate smile*
you’ve got The Aesthetic Sense
This is another cool tag! I’m going to do this one too.
The mountains are breathtaking, as is Neelam Valley. You have an awesome taste in homes specs.
I TOTALLY love Nathiagali’s Governor House. A dream house!
And I can sooo relate to that need for a 3200cc Mercedes, cruising at the coastal highway would be so damn much fun!! Yes, I am Lahori so it goes without saying that I drive like a maniac!
a tag… aaaah… a tag… lets see den… i wud like to do both uk n pak… perhaps i can… i donno… i may not do eitehr… lol !!!
we shall see… thanks for rememberin me
I love the view out that window, you gotta live there!
This is a cool tag but do you know how many I have to get caught up on… sorta like emails
Awww, all these places look wonderful!
Thanks for tagging me, Specs. Finally I have something except dots and dashes to put on my blog.
My answers are going to be pretty similar to yours, though.
(Except that I won’t be driving a Mercedes on the Makran Highway, but a Ducati 1098 super bike — probably earning a ticket as well.)
Breathtaking views! I’d love to live in those places too – as long as there’s internet connection
Who knew scenes in pakistan could be soo breath-taking! beautiful
Pakistani zindabad!
wow!
these places dnt even look there on earth!
something out of this world :O
Marry an Army dude and all your wishes will come true
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Yaar, I have to do this too. I forgot!
U sure do choose your places well. If my window also looked out to such a breath-taking view of the mountains, I don’t think I would get out of bed. I would just lie there and stare at the view the whole day haha. Nice post
Pakistan is so beautiful – I miss it.
Love your #3 & 4 – thanks for doing the meme!
Nice places
Thanks for tagging me, thats 2 on the todo list! I’ll take part in the tag once I can
Wow! you sure are imaginative. I like your choice of places.I have never been to Neelum valley but I have been always fascinated by its pictures, sooo amazing. I would like to stand in one end of that valley and call out my name loud and hear it echo back to me
I want that view from your window too!
If you go and live there I’ll move in!
Loved my wife comment, we can’t breathe now without Internet, it’s a major part of our life now
btw I love the pics boht boht.
Neelum Valley is absolutely breathtaking. I had no idea such a place existed let alone in Pakistan!
Wow ! I would live prety much in all the areas you mentioned .
No post for last week ? Is every thing okay specy ?
Hi from Texas! I was wandering about the internet this morning and found your blog, I’ll be adding the feed to my Livejournal so I can keep up with you. Thanks for the good writing and pics
you has been TAGGED!
The inner city areas are such a contrast to the mountainous regions.
Specs time for you to update!!
To quote another blogger, “I have rights reserved on blogger’s block.”
In other words: update!
can i live here http://www.flickr.com/photos/35663537@N00/354874767/in/photostream/ too??? WOW!
i agree with you