Top 30 Places in Peshawar, Pakistan

Peshawar in Pakistan 

is the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is a large border city in the northwest of the country, located on the edge of the famous Khyber Pass, just fifty kilometers from the Afghanistan border. 

Top 30 Places in Peshawar, Pakistan

The topics of the article are as follows. You can jump into the topic of your interest

• Facts About the Peshawar
• Influence of civilizations and Empires over Peshawar
• Best Food in Peshawar
• Old Name of Peshawar City
• Top 30 Places in Peshawar

Facts about The Peshawar

The city is the sixth largest city in the country with a population of 2.3 million. 98% of Muslims live in Peshawar city. Christianity is the second major religion. Apart from this, Sikhs, Hindus, and Parsis are also residents of this city. Pashto, Hindko, and Urdu are the three main languages that are spoken in the city. However, Pashto is the dominant Peshawar language.

Peshawar is an ancient, and historical millennium city not only in Pakistan but also in South Asia. The history of this city begins about five hundred years ago AD. This city has been occupied and influenced by different civilizations, conquerors, kings, invaders, and traders for centuries. 

This city is the second largest city of the Pashtun population in the whole world. Despite being under the influence of different civilizations and cultures, even today, this city is the guardian of Pashtun culture and traditions. And the strong family system is the hallmark of this city. Considered to be the center of traditional food with tasty and spicy Pashtun cuisine, this city is full of large modern and traditional food spots from place to place.

Influence of Civilizations and Empires over Peshawar

Throughout the long term, the Pashtuns would come to rule the district and Peshawar has arisen as a significant focus of Pashtun culture alongside Kandahar and Kabul as well as Quetta in later times. Muslim Middle Easterners and Turkic showed up and attached the locale before the start of the second thousand years.

Gandhara Civilization, Greek Civilization, and Hindu Civilization are prominent among the civilizations and cultures that this city has been influenced by. Among the kings or government periods under which it was ruled are as follows:
The city has been dominated by the Hindu Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Afghan Rule, the Sikh Empire, and British Rule, including the Mauryan Empire, the Kushan Empire, and the Imperial Hephthalites. It has been an important commercial city in Pakistan since 1947 after the partition of India.

The city of Peshawar has been an important commercial, defense, and administrative city on the ancient and famous 2400 km long Grand Trunk Road of South Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the Sarak e Azam or the Shahi Sarak.

This road passes through the border town of Teknaf in Bangladesh through Feni, Cumilla, Raj Shahi, and then through the Indian cities of Patna, Amritsar and reaches the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Gujarat, Rawalpindi and then Peshawar. After that, it enters Afghanistan from the Torkham border to Jalalabad and then to Kabul.

Every ruler and king worked for centuries in building, expanding, and repairing this road. Whoever understood the importance of this great road. Like it is also eponymous with great strategist Sher Shah Suri, who during his rule built caravan inns along this road and also built minarets to find out the distance of the road. Similarly, during the British era, a lot of work was done on the construction of Grand Trunk road and its expansion.

The road still connects South Asia with the Indian subcontinent and can be an important corridor for tourism development and trade between nations.

Best Food in Peshawar

You can explore the best restaurants in Peshawar. Visit Qissa Khwani Bazaar as it is very famous for the best food in Peshawar. Same like Namak Mandi is considered to be a big food street in Peshawar. The Nisar Charsi Tikka a famous Pashtun Cuisine Style spot is also located in Namak Mandi Peshawar. 

There are other quality hotels, and traditional dhabas are scattered all over the place. Lokanta Peshawar in a university town, Habibi restaurant Peshawar, Zaiqa Restaurant Peshawar, and Cuisine Lounge Peshawar are some more food points in Peshawar city.

You will also find good and best outlets of fast food Peshawar. similarly, you can find the costly burgers, shawarma, and best pizza in Peshawar 24/7 throughout the food streets like Namak Mandi, Qissa Khwani, University Town, and Hayatabad. 

In my experience Chef Burger Peshawar is the best burger in Peshawar, and Italian Pizza, and Arabic Shawarma is the nice fast food in Peshawar. The best Chapli kabab in Peshawar can be eaten at Sheen Tika Restaurant Hayatabad.

Old Name of Peshawar City

The old name of this city was Parashawar which was changed by the Mughal Emperor Akbar to Purusapura or Purushapura. Which means "the City of Men".

During the reign of Buddhists, it was called Pushapura, "the city of flowers". Chinese Buddhist monks say this Bù-lù-shà-bù-luō 不-路-啥-不-罗  or Fou-Lou-sha 副噢漏沙

Top 30 Places in Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan

With a blend of ancient and modern civilizations, today the city is a strong, progressive, prosperous, and modern city equipped with modern amenities.

Peshawar city is full of hallmarks of historical, commercial, cultural, defense, educational, religious, and entertainment buildings, inns, minarets, monuments, markets, palaces, mosques, forts, temples, mansions, restaurants, and gardens.
The top 30 places in Peshawar, Pakistan are as follows: -

• Bala Hisar Fort

Bala Hisar Fort Peshawar

As soon as you enter the city of Peshawar, the first historical building that becomes the center of attraction for tourists is Bala Hisar Fort۔ Coming across the GT road from the east side, on the left, near brt station no 9, next to Malik Saad flyover and opposite Jinnah Park stands a large brown colored building of Qala Bala Hisar. 

The mention of this fort dates back to the 7th century. It was called Bagram Fort during the Mughal period. Mughal emperors, Babur and Humayun, Afghan ruler Sher Shah Suri, Sikh general Hari Singh Nalwa and the British Empire played an important role in its construction and destruction. Which is still a part of history. Sometimes it was a defensive building and sometimes it was the residence of the kings. In 1948, the fort was made the headquarters of the Pakistan Frontier Corps by Viceroy Lord Curzon.

The building of the fort, 90 feet high, ten feet thick, and covering only ten acres, is awe-inspiring. You can see the city by climbing on top of this fort. The fort is open to tourists only on Saturdays and Sundays. For families, It is open on Saturdays and for everyone on Sundays. There is no charge to visit it, but tourists must bring their ID card or passport with them.

• Jamrud Fort

• Masjid Mahabat Khan

• Sonehri Masjid

• Gorakh Nath Temple

• Bab e Khyber

Historical Bab e Khyber near Jamrud Fort Peshawar
on the entrance of the famous Khyber Pass

• Peshawar Museum

• Sethi House Museum

• Peshawar Zoo

Inside View of Peshawar Zoo

• Islamia College University

Islamia College University Peshawar

• University of Peshawar

• Agriculture University of Peshawar

• Khyber Medical University

• Adventure Arena DHA

• Shahi Bagh

• Wazir Bagh

• Ghani Bagh

• Jinah Park

• Garison Park

• Chacha Younas Park

• Shalman Park

• Tatara Park

• Khalid Bin Waleed Park

• Sethial Street

• Sir Cunningham clock tower

• Chowk Yadgar

• Qisa Khawani Bazar

• Nemak Mandi/? food street

• Karkhano Bazar

• Saddar Bazar

• University road

• Hayatabad sports complex

• Arbab Niaz Stadium

• Qayyum Stadium

• Peshawar club

There are other famous places and top attractions for tourists outside Peshawar city within easy access, as listed below:

• Sardaryab is 25 km away north of Peshawar where the Kabul and Swat rivers meet. Sardaryab is a very beautiful riverside tourist spot.

• Khyber Pass

• Landi Kotal

• Torkham Border

• Warsak Dam

• Rambel Kabab House, Taru Jabba Peshawar

Peshawar BRT is the Best source for city tour

Peshawar BRT is a modern eco-friendly bus rapid transit system called Let’s Go Peshawar or Zu Peshawar.

Peshawar BRT is an excellent, modern, and affordable means of travel to visit the important historical places and buildings of Peshawar. Peshawar BRT is a modern eco-friendly bus rapid transit system called Let’s Go Peshawar or Zhu Peshawar. This system is also called Trans Peshawar.

The important governmental buildings, historical places, famous food points, and other tourist destinations are located along the east-west corridor of Peshawar BRT.

Peshawar BRT system was built by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government with the support of the Asian Development Bank. There is an east-west corridor. Along with this Zu Peshawar corridor, a bicycle track and a pedestrian track have also been constructed.

32 stations equipped with beautiful and modern facilities have been constructed on this corridor. A total of 255 modern buses have been run on this corridor in the first phase. It is interesting that easy access is provided to special people and their seats are also being reserved inside the buses and at BRT stations.

The fare system is fully automated. If you travel daily, you can also get your own ZU Peshawar fare card from each BRT station with credit. The fare of Peshawar BRT is also very reasonable. It is only ten rupees for a journey of up to five kilometers, while for every additional five kilometers the fare will be increased by five rupees. Similarly, Zu bicycle fare is also very low i.e. sixty rupees per hour and you can rent a bicycle for seventy-two hours and enjoy the city. 

Let’s pray for your good journey to Peshawar city. If you have already traveled across the city, then let me know your experience by commenting below. If you also want to add up some more information then contact us through email or social media links.