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Multan looks as it just heaved up from the dust and it must be the most dust city in the world. If not than it is at least the most dusty city I have seen. More than three million people live there and the traffic in the streets consists of motorbikes (70cc), autorickshaws, donkeys and city buses (surprisignly easy to use). There are almost no cars. Even the loading docks at the train station are designed for donkeys with carts and not for trucks. There is a fort on a hill and some very important (historically, religiously and architecturaly) mausoleums. As usual they are much more interesting from the outside. The map promised a park around then. In reality it was a couple of dusty trees, few turfs of grass and mountain of trash.

There are no pavements in the city and just next to a railway station is a slum. But lets face it, it is very organized and clean. Children living there ride a man-powered Ferris Wheel in the afternoons. It has two cabins and a diameter of two and half meters. Teletubbies t-shirts are out of fashion here.