A Trip To Swat Kalam | Day 01 | Bike Tour

Attock Khurd ( اٹک خورد; "Little Attock") is a small town located beside the Indus River in the Attock District of Punjab Province in Pakistan.
Mardān is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar). It is a fast-growing city that experienced a population boom in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Around 1800 BCE, the area around Mardan was part of the homeland of the Gandhara grave culture. Rock edicts of the ancient Indian King Ashoka in the nearby Shahbaz Garhi, written in the right-to-left Kharosthi script, date from the Mauryan period (mid-200s BCE) and represent the earliest irrefutable evidence of writing in South Asia.The nearby Takht-i-Bahi which has remains of an ancient Buddhist monastery was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Ghalegay Buddha
This stupa is one among the thousands of old monuments in Swat Valley, and it dates back to the Buddhist era. The Buddha statue is located near the village of Ghaligay, 18 kilometers from Mingawara, at the foot of steep slopes on the left side of the main route to Mardan. About a kilometer from the left bank of the Swat River lies a Buddha facing west. At the end of the Gandhara era, it was built between the 7th and 8th centuries. The lower half of the statue is still fair, but the upper half has been extensively damaged.
Mingora is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Located on the Swat River, it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan. Mingora is the largest city and the epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division, and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Saidū Sharīf (sca of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The city also serves as the capital city of Malakand Division. It was named after Saidu Baba, a prominent leader of the former princely state of swat
Saidu Sharif is the hub of several official buildings, and archeological sites such as the Swat Museum, the Tomb of Saidu Baba, Royal Residential Palace of former Wali-e-Swat, and the archaeological remains of the Butkara Buddhist Stupa

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