Lahore’s greatest assets are its sprawling public parks: esp Race Course/Jilani & Lawrence Gardens/Bagh-e-Jinnah. @asim_minahil suggested we walk through them, and up the Mall to Lahore Museum, as we caught up on our lives. Here’s them in all their glory, with no/few people. 
Special mentions at Race Course: a thriving cactus display 🌵; a tree planted by filmstar/glookaara Megha Ji 💃🏽; a garden of yellow and Orange Marigolds 🌼; and curated, thick grooves of trees that look like an enchanted forest in this fog/smog 🌳🌴🌲
Here’s a cricket match in one of the two cricket fields, ensconced by these beautiful, neatly-planted trees along the boundary.
We made our way to Lawrence Gardens. Rested at the poor man’s version of Shalamar Bagh & walked up the fake hill where the water towers rest camouflaged (but smothered in vapours of hash). Btw, where did the bats go?
Walk up the Mall was fairly disappointing (fumes & traffic). High Court needs to bring its boundary wall down. MCL needs to take down the anti-poor banners. Lahore Museum is beautiful. We tried to take some selfies to remember this walk because Murree is killing my 🧠🔋.
Parting question: why aren’t more people in the parks?! Do you take them for granted? I understand the rich folks have their own lawns & maybe most working class folks work on Saturdays. Or are they not accessible by public transport? The emptiness didn’t make sense.
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