A Day in Donga Gali
Exploring British Era heritage
Donga Gali is one of the tourist mountain resort towns of the Galyat area of Ayubia National Park in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
During the British era in the Indian Subcontinent, Donga Gali hill station served as a sanatorium to British soldiers and their families and contained a hotel, post office and a small church.
Our first stop is St John's Church and retreat centre built in 1882 during the British period in the Indian subcontinent.
Next stop is the Virgin Mary Catholic Church perched on the hillside, a living testament to Galiyaat's colonial past.The church's construction was completed in 1911.
Our last stop is the pipeline track.
The Pipeline Track is about 4 kilometres walking track that takes you from Donga Gali to Ayubia. It is a great walking path that takes around 35-40 minutes to cover. It was in 1930 that the British built a water pipeline to carry stored water to Ayubia, from where it was supplied to Murree at an elevation nearly a thousand meters below the starting point in Donga Gali.
Over the years the pipeline got covered over with earth and stones and the track now hiding the water pipeline came to be called the Pipeline Walk.
Towards the end of the trek, one comes across several British army insignias of the regiments that helped build the pipeline.
Quite recently, the government of Pakistan restored and opened the 129-year-old Motto Tunnel for tourists walking the pipeline trek.Over the years it got buried under debris and trash ; a 250-metre long, six-foot high and four feet wide tunnel with the year “1881” inscribed on top, a water pipeline running through it.
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