Where will the annual school field trip’s destination be this year? Amin wants to take the children to the Rana Resort and Safari Park near Lahore, near the Head Balloki Reservoir. It’s an interesting combination of a wildlife refuge and amusement park.
The kids are excited, especially because the date has been set for next week, Tuesday November 27th.
However, it may need to be rescheduled for another date if the needed funds have not come in yet. This trip involves traveling nearly 2 hours each way, plus the low admission cost, and other costs such as feeding everyone. It comes to $300 needed in total. Bus fare has already been covered now, praise God! Now only $150 remains to be donated.
I’m sure we all can agree that field trips are an important part of a child’s education, especially when the children come from poor families who cannot provide some of these experiences for their children.
This is a popular destination for school trips, as the children can be exposed to a wide variety of mind-expanding experiences all in one place. 
There are various kinds of birds and animals to observe.
There is a little “train” (without tracks) that can carry people along some of the roads in this beautiful natural setting. There are also many other attractions.
I found a couple of YouTube videos (narrated in the Urdu language) that take you on tours through the park. Apparently, these are professionally done episodes of a local TV show.
Even though it’s not narrated in English, you can get a very good feel for what this place is all about and how Amin’s school kids can be enriched by going there. (All the images in this blog post are extracted from these two videos.) I enjoyed watching the videos and feeling like I was experiencing this place for myself.
Click on the video image to watch it in YouTube.
Here’s the other one. Watch and enjoy! Get excited along with the kids!
