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I had never been outside of Sindh province ever before my 20 years of journey of my life. I was travelling to Islamabad –the capital city of Pakistan located in Punjab, the largest province of the country in terms of population. It was winter and I was travelling with a few winter costumes though I had to visit areas like Murree, Ayubia and Nathia Gali where snow fall was at its peak and temperature was -4 ◦C and sometimes -6. The most annoying thing was that I have an enough amount to buy warm costumes there. I traveled by a bus service, it was a journey of 16 hours. I arrived in Rawalpindi terminal than I booked careem car to reach at the guest house which was already booked online. I was strange to be at place where you haven’t been before, the climate, the language; the behavior of people was very different from that of the Sindh province. People were speaking Punjabi, Gujrati and Pashto there which I hardly could understand. But I tried to be mingled with people around me since we had the same thing that was nationality. They were also unknown to my mother tongue that is Sindhi, so I communicated in Urdu throughout my trip. Besides, I made clear some misconceptions that we as a people of Sindh had about the people of Punjab. It is often believed in Sindh that Punjabi people and Muhajir (people who migrated in Pakistan after the partition of subcontinent) are very much selfish and they can never be loyal to anybody expect themselves. But when I was alone in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Murree, Ayubia and Nathia Gali, what I experienced was very different from what I had been told about the people there. They are very much caring, even wherever I was going for visit, people whom I don’t even know coming across me and saying ‘Assalam O Alaikum’ boy, do you need any help? I every time replied, ‘Walaikum Assalam, Thank you, Sir. I am comfortable at all’. The point here to note is we often create negative thoughts for the people of even our own country, so through travelling we actually know the people, and their land. It was one of my best experiences of life that gave me the understanding of the people of my own country. And finally, I conclude that we get such things from travelling that we cannot get from readings even. I have been fond of reading, and I have almost read 500 books in last two years, but pleasure that I got from travelling to fantastic that I couldn’t get from books during the two years. I look forward now to travel more and more and know more people around the world.