BEST SURF SPOTS IN PAKISTAN

BEST SURF SPOTS IN PAKISTAN

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From French Beach all the way to Gwardar are some of Asia most beautiful and undiscovered stretches of beach.  Where the desert meets the Arabian Sea,  a multitude of water sports including scuba diving, snorkeling, boating, wind surfing, kayaking, deep sea game fishing and this regions best SURF calls. 

During monsoon season, after April till October, some of the best untouched, undiscovered surfing waters in the world await to be ridden by boards from Australia, Hawaii, the US and Indonesia.  

Right along the coast, self contained huts are available for surfing enthusiast with boards rented or carved upon request, from the local village hippy surfers but it is recommended to BYO.  You will also find 5-6 star hotels offering the best of every amenity.

Everything from freshly caught lobster, oysters and fish are at your fingertips.  You order, they catch and cook it for you - for basically next to nothing.

Surfing Pakistan's Makran Coast is probably the most chilled out, laid back surfing stretch you'll find anywhere nowadays, where tourist traps and cliches have now infiltrated the once lonely tracks of the world's surfing path, here, it is as lonely as you dreamed it to be.  

Don't worry about what the travel warnings say, they also tell you to beware when going to places like Australia and the States, so dare to be different and come for anything from 5 star accommodations to sleepy bungalows with a front veranda view of the the mystifying Arabian Sea and f*ck what everybody else says, it's bloody good surf and you deserve the ride!!!

There are several beaches in Karachi or outside Karachi main city. The famous beaches names are Hawks bay, Sands Pit, Cape Mound, Sumyani, French Beach, Gadani, Turtle beaches, Paradise Point. These beaches are best for swimming or spending night in rented villa which is avilable there but advance booking is better before arrived. The Seaview is also a beach but in the main city where mostly young boys and girls meet in daytime especially. In evening, you will mostly find families and in midnight mostly are boys.


FRENCH BEACH / HAJI ABDULLAH GOTH

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French Beach of Karachi is located half way between Hawkes Bay and Paradise Point, is a small fishing village known to the locals as Haji Abdullah Goth. Surrounded by a boundary wall, it offers 20 huts, constructed by the villagers, for rent. The village has neither running water nor electric power. Its rocky beach and clear waters are ideal for surfing during the monsoon season

Stretching from French Beach all the way to Gwardar are some of Asia most beautiful stretches of beach. Where the desert meets the Arabian Sea, 
are a multitude of water sports including scuba diving, snorkeling, boating, wind surfing, kayaking, deep sea game fishing and this regions best SURF. During monsoon season, after April till October, some of the best untouched, undiscovered surfing waters in the world await to be ridden by boards from Australia, Hawaii, the US and Indonesia.  

Self contained huts are available for surfing enthusiast with boards available from the local village hippy surfer but it is recommended to BYO.

Visitors have to bring their own equipment as well as food and drink supplies, but if you like seafood, then everything from freshly caught lobster, oysters and fish are available upon request. 
You order, they catch and cook it for you - for basically next to nothing.

BEACH VIEW PARK

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Beach View Park aka Beach Park is located in Clifton, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The park, constructed at Clifton beach, it was inaugurated on December 12, 2005. The park, constructed under the special supervision of Sindh Governor Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan, is part of the under-construction Grand Recreation Project. This beautiful park, spread over an area of 47 acres (190,000 m2), has been constructed along 3.7 km of the coastal driveway.

The project envisages the rehabilitation and renovation of the historic Jehangir Kothari Parade and Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim on an area of 80 acres (320,000 m2). Both these projects linked with the Beach Park. 
The development work of the Clifton beach as a recreational place was started 80 years back by Jehangir Kothari, who constructed the Jehangir Kothari Parade at a cost of PKR 0.3 million at the site of his bungalow and presented it to the citizens of Karachi as a gift.


The Beach Park project includes, construction/development of stone pillars fencing, envicrate pathways and kerb stones, fountains, grassy lawns, flower beds, trees, shrubs, physical appliances, canopies, stone and wooden benches, play areas, big size fibre glass dinosaurs, food courts, shops, dustbins, small lights, arena vision lights, light towers.


CLIFTON BEACH

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Clifton Beach was the most popular silver-sand beach during 20th century but now it is affected by an oil spill that occurred in 2003. 
Clifton Beach, on the Arabian Sea, is a beach in Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan, one of the neighborhoods of Saddar Town. The beach has attractions for families and tourists, including beachside horse and camel rides, amusement parks, restaurants, and swimming in the Arabian Sea. The whole beach area of Clifton and Seaview is considered safe and peacful even in times of political tensions. A gated residential area called Seaview Apartments lies close to a section of Clifton beach known as Seaview beach or simply "Seaview". Further ahead lies Darakhshan Villas which comprises of residential townhouses and huts. 

Another attraction in this very area were the recently constructed Cineplex cinema houses for the entertainment starved people of Karachi, particularly for the people who reside in DHA and Clifton. This has happened after around three decades of cinema industry decline in Pakistan. Hollywood films are mostly screened here along with some selected Bollywood films. The cinema's are equipped with state of the art facilities and other entertainment sections. The Defence Housing Authority is filling the beach area with sand to obtain more ground pushing the sea further back, which will change the shape and features of the beach.

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