Day 4: Chasing Gandhara's Ghosts

🕌 Mohra Moradu Monastery A Gandharan blueprint: • Stupa with east-facing stairs (unusual!) • 27 monk cells, baths, kitchen 🛁 • Mini stupa with *perfectly intact 7-layer chattra* ⛏️ Badalpur Site Disappointing digs (just Buddha heads + Kushan coins), but the real magic was: • Village kids playing cricket amid ruins 🏏 • Islamic prayers drifting over Buddhist stones ☪️💫 —time’s palimpsest! 🌄 Sunset at the "Beheaded Stupa" Half-intact, like a beheaded king 👑 (moonlight prince vibes?). Watched trucks rumble by as winds carried: • Gandhara’s "flesh-for-dove" fables 🕊️ • Christ-like sacrifice parallels ✝️ • New leaves dancing on ancient soil 🍃 —this moment was the relic. #trip diary#travel guide#GandharaArt#PakistanHistory#Mohra Moradu Monastery# Badalpur Site#Beheaded Stupa#taxila#pPakistan#Pakistan travel#Pakistan guide