Monuments and the old school (and the goat)

Just outside of Islamabad is a little village called Saidpur.

With no real plans other than to look around, we drove out to it.

Pretty much as soon as we arrived, we met a man who either worked there or volunteered. Either way, he gave us a long history lecture about the past of these buildings and even unlocked two of them for our viewing pleasure.

I can’t help but wonder how old this tree is and what its past looks like.

The building on the left is called the Rama Temple. It’s dedicated to the Hindu god Rama.

In 1947, the temple was transformed into a girl’s school. I think our tour guide said that the building was used as a post office when he was a boy. With the mail business safely behind, it’s now just there for tours and historical purposes.

It was locked to the general public, but our tour guide let us in. It was epic of him.

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The inside of the building was fairly featureless, but don’t be deceived; there was a lot of history that happened beside these walls (the catch is that I don’t know what).

In the back of the building, there is an old underground tunnel that led to a mysterious location. As far as I recall, our tour guide said he didn’t know where it led because it was filled with dirt before his birth.

Why would you need a tunnel under a temple? Or, for that matter, why would you need a tunnel into your school or your post office? I’ve not figured out the exact thought process there either.

You can see the dirt on the ground at the center of the back wall; that was the old tunnel entrance.