Mingora

Worth seeing in and around Mingora

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Swat Museum

   Swat Museum is a museum located in Saidu Sharif, on the road connecting Mingora and Saidu Sharif in the Swat District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

   900 m · museum in Mingora, Pakistan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Mahmud Ghaznavi Mosque

   Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi Mosque is the oldest mosques in northern Pakistan, discovered by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan in 1985. The mosque represents a design of old Muslim architecture.

   5.2 km · mosque in Pakistan · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Jahanzeb College

   Government Post Graduate Jahanzeb College is one of the pioneer institutes of higher education in the Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was founded by the ex-ruler of the Swat State in order to provide education to the population of the region.

   1.8 km · College in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

There are several Buddhist remains and carvings located around the city.

1. 01
   Swat Museum

   Contains Gandharan statuettes and friezes depicting the lives of the Buddha, pre-Buddhist artefacts and an ethnographic gallery with traditional carved Swati furniture, jewellery and embroideries.

2. 02
   Butkara Stupa

From Wikivoyage: Mingora, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Hujra Restaurant Swat, Bypass Road,.

From Wikivoyage: Mingora, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Mingora

Airports

Bacha Khan (PEW), 116 km · Islamabad (ISB), 143 km · Srinagar (SXR), 238 km

Stations

Saidu Sharif Airport, 4.7 km

• Peshawar → Mingora

  112 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · ₨1,260–1,680
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• Attock → Mingora

  113 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · ₨1,310–1,740
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• Skardu → Mingora

  303 km · quickest by road, 8h 46m · ₨4,180–5,550
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No local-transport research exists yet for Mingora

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mingora. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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