Karachi Life Style
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Lifestyle of Karachi is uniquely cosmopolitan. In Karachi, loud music booms from clubs and restaurants with names like Cafe New York, Nacho Nanas and TGIF. Teen-agers in Western clothing hang out in shopping plazas, sipping soft drinks and share their love to the city and its unique lifestyle.
During weekends thousands of citizens from all walks of life visit beaches. At weekends going to Suzi Water Park, Paradise Point, Sandspit, Hawks Bay, Cape Mount, French Beach, Sonera Point, Gidani and Sonmiani is a particular holiday entertainment. While Clifton Beach, Kemari Boat Riding, Boating Basin, Safari Park, Aladdin Water Park, Hill Park, Aziz Bhatti Park, Clifton Park, Zoological Gardens, Sir Syed Park, Taleemi Bagh, Sea View, Funland, Aladdin Amusement Park, Sindbad is a routine in Karachi Life. During winters people love to go to Hub Dam, Khadeji Falls, Thatta, Makli, Chaukundi Tombs, Haleji Lake, Keenjhar Lake, Gujjo Canal, Bachoo Farms, Punj Mori, Kirthar National Park, Beggar Mori and Guddo Barrage for recreation and fishing.
Karachi is a shoppers paradise. If you have the power to purchase you can get finest products at the most reasonable prices in Karachi. Crockery, Wooden , steel and Plastic furniture, paintings, crystal works, marble products, steel goods, finest jeweler, classical stitched clothing, glassware, automobile, watches, best textile products and much more. For wooden furniture Nursery, Queen Road, Liaquatabad, Hasan Square, Aisha Manzil are good markets. For cloths Saddar, Eidgah, Jubilee, Haidery, Tariq Road, Liquatabad, Liaqat Market-Malir, Alkhair Market at University Road, Banaras Chowk are best places.
For garments Clifton's Gulf way Shopping Mall and Clifton Broadway, Tariq Road, Haidery, Hasan Square, Erum Shopping Mall, Nazimabad No.1, Zaibunnissa Street, Anarkali in F.B.Area, Meena Bazaar, Bahadurabad are some of them. For shoes whole Saddar, Zaibun Nisa Street, Zainab Market, Clifton, Paposh Nagar, Tariq Road, Haidery, Awami Markaz, F.B.Area are places. For carpets, other furniture's, and much more Hasan Square, Zainab Market and Haidery. For leather goods Zainab Market, Cooperative Market, Panorama Center, Glamour One are best places. Jeweler is good at Saddar, Zaibun Nisa Street, Tariq Road, Haidery, Liaquatabad, Karimabad, Samanabad
Karachi life is a blend of busy working style, leisure, hectic, traffic jams and recreational activities. Although Karachi has a fair road network system but bottle necks at different square and circles, lack of mass transit system, subways and over passes are the issues of today's development plans
Karachi's unique multicultural, multiethnic, mutilinguistic and different life styles make today's Karachi a symbol of pride for every dweller of the city. It is a city where dreams come true, City of Lights and Charms. Wealthy citizens past their leisure times at five star hotels, clubs and Gymkhanas. While city's 80% middle class usually have less time for recreational activities, but whenever there is time they pass it at beaches, parks and eating outdoors specially at American Fast Foods. Poor people enjoy weekly donkey race between Lyari and Clifton and enjoy some cheap but tasty food.
Unique Climate also plays its important role in a karachiite life style. It is the only city with two summer seasons i.e. April-June (humid, occasional thunder storms temp. Min. 25-27 C, Max. 32-36 sometime 40+) and Mid Sept.-Oct. (dry humidity as low as 15-30%, Min. 18-24C, Max. 28-36C sometime 42+ chances of tropical depressions and storms). During June-Mid September monsoon rains 160-250mm, very pleasant. Winters are mild normally dry with little precipitation temperatures Min. 5-11C and Max. 16-23C, sometimes 3-.
Karachi's handicrafts are popular, brass and steel work on utensils, Zari and glass work on clothes, marble carving, stone jewellery and decoration make it center of fashion and designs. All the latest fashions of the west are normally adopted with open arms by youngsters but within our social limits. Teenaged girls and boys normally wear casual dresses like jeans,
T-shirts and shalwar kameez. Shorts in boys are very common during summers. Mature citizens wear formal dresses like suits shalwar kameez with waistcoat and in women Sari and shalwar kameez are daily clothing. During functions and marriages brides normally wear heavy zari work silk suits, while their grooms wear Sherwani or Suits. Guests also love to wear in competition of brides and grooms. Heavy gold jewelry is women's loveliest and sometimes only obsession.
It is a center of finest Chinese, Mexican. Continental, Pakistani and Indian cuisine. Restaurants all over the city remain crowded all day long specially during evenings. Eating outdoors is fashion. Going to Macdonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Subway, Nacho Nana, Cox and Kings, Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robins, Mr. Burger, Khan Broast, One Potato Two Potato, BBQ Tonight, Snoopy Ice cream parlor, Copper Kettle, Village, Kinara, Young Ones, Kublai Khan, Usmania, China Town, Lahori Charge, Nihari at Burns Road, Karachi Gosht at Patel Para, Gola Ganda at Dhoraji, Bhel Puri at Clifton, Avari Roof Top, Sheraton Bostan, PC BBQ and other places is very common.
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