• Gor Ghatri

• Chowk Yaadgar

• Clock Tower

• Company Bagh (Khalid Bin Walid Bagh)

• Peshawar Museum

• Khyber Pass

• Gandhara

• Warsak Dam

The Mughal gateway of a caravanserai known as Gor Ghatri" (Warriors grave) at the top end of Sethi Street. A huge Mughal gateway leads into a courtyard over 200 meters (650 feet) square, which was once surrounded on all four sides by rooms for travelers. The site has been considered holy for nearly 2,000 years. In the second century AD, it was a Buddhist shrine and monastery known as the Tower of Buddha's Bowl. With the decline of Buddhism, it became a Hindu shrine,
This was built by Shah Jahan's Daughter. During the Mughal era, it was common practice throughout the empire for local notables to construct safe places where wealthy merchants could stay. The merchant and their retinues lodged in the lock-up rooms surroundings the central courtyard of the caravanserai, normally paying a charge for the privilege. The gates were locked from sunset to sunrise and the walls manned day and night by armed guard, so that merchant could rest secure in the knowledge that their goods were safe from robbers.
Gor Ghatri has been an important place for travelers. for thousands of years. But now, Gor Ghatri is used as government offices and also houses police and fire stations.

Chowk Yaadgar (the place of remembrance) is old Peshawar's central square, is at the end of the Ander Shehr. The traditional site of political rallies, is the Speakers Corner of Peshawar, and the heroes of the 1965. Indo-Pakistani War assembling political rallies and demonstrations during the struggle for independence, also many anti-British demonstration started out from this square. In fact, the variety of crafts in which Peshawar excels even today is amazing, and this is a part of the city's character often eclipsed by its martial tradition. On the left (west) side of the square, money-changers squat on hand knotted carpets with their safes behind them and their pocket calculators and mobile telephones at the ready. They will change any currency (illegally), but will accept only large notes. The houses here, built mostly of unbaked bricks set in wooden frames to guard against earthquakes. Many old houses have beautifully carved heavy wooden doors and almost all have highly ornamental wooden balconies, towards Chowk Yaadgar, a bird market, where songbirds are sold as pets in small cages, as in China.

Nearby the Chowk Yaadgar is a Cunningham Clock Tower It was built in 1900 "in Commemoration of the Diamond jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen Empress", but. is named after Sir George Cunningham who came along somewhat later. Cunningham started his Asian career as the political agent assigned to North Waziristan (in the Tribal Areas) and advanced to become governor of NWFP in 1937-46 and again after Independence in 1947-8.

The heart of the Sadder is the Khalid bin Walid (Company) Bagh which is an old Mughal Garden. Its huge ancient trees and gorgeous big roses are a sight to remember. Two other splendid old gardens are the Shahi Bagh in the northeast and the Wazir Bagh in the south-east, all of which give the character of a garden city to Peshawar.
The Peshawar of the hoary past is the old city, the Peshawar of the British period (1849-1947) is the Cantonment but the Peshawar of independent Pakistan is the vast extension of the city west and east.

Peshawar Museum, formerly Victoria Memorial Hall, is situated between Deans Hotel and the Old city, about five minutes walk from Jail Bridge and the Railway station. The museum was built in 1905.
Its long hall, flanked by side galleries and with a raised platform at the end opposite the door, was the ballroom. The museum, open 8.30 am to 12.30 pm and 2.30 to 5 pm in summer, 9 am to 4 pm in winter, closed on Wednesday, has one of Pakistan's best collections of Gandhara art, and the pieces are well arranged and labeled. with sculptures illustrating the life. of the Buddha placed in chronological order. The fasting Buddha here is even more haunting than the one in Lahore Museum. The ethnological section, the Hall of Tribes, has wooden carvings from the Kalash people in Chitral. There is also a Muslim Gallery, displays Islamic treasure and also displays the tribal handicrafts. The Peshawar Club, on Sir Syed Road near The Mall, is the former cantonment club house. As in the past, its recruitment policy is still extremely exclusive, is reserved for members and their guests, but anyone can go in to look around and browse in the library. There is a reciprocal arrangement for temporary membership with the Rawalpindi, Quetta and Karachi clubs. The swimming pool is surrounded by large shade trees. The morning session reserved for women. A shamiana curtains off the ladies till noon, behind which swim women in purdah. Bells ring loudly just before noon to warn the ladies that they are about to be exposed.

The prime attraction in this region is the Khyber Pass, situated in the Sulaimans Hills which form the western barrier of Pakistan. Tourists need a permit and an armed escort from the Political Agent in Stadium Road to visit the Khyber Pass. Residents in Pakistan get their Khyber permits from the Home Secretary at the Civil Secretariat. The permits are free and delivered immediately. The hills dip down here, leaving a passage sometimes as broad as 1½ km. (1 mile) and sometimes as narrow as 16 meters (52 feet). The pass begins near Jamrud Fort 18 km. (11 miles) from Peshawar and extends beyond the Afghan border of Pakistan at Torkham 58 km. (36 miles) away. The road runs west
from the cantonment and through University Town, Hayatabad and Karkhano Bazaar, before and after which the fields on either side of the road are covered with refugee camps. After the camps are the compounds of Pathan tribesmen, their high mud walls furnished with turrets and gunslits, their entrances guarded by huge corrugated-iron gates.

24.1/2 km. (15 miles) away from Peshawar is the 228 meters (750 feet) long and 71 meters (235 feet) high Warsak Dam, built on the river Kabul in 1955-60. It has created a 42 km. (26 miles) long lake upstream of the dam, which is a favorite picnic spot. This multipurpose dam supplies water for irrigating Peshawar valley and generates 160,000 KW of electricity. You can hire a taxi for the trip.