Changa Manga Forest and Railway

Excellent place where you can spend all day. It's located 25km south of Lahore. Part of the forest is a park where you can picnic or play cricket. There is a zoo, children's playground,a lake with boats and suspension bridges. You can take the train and explore the forest.

The town of Changa Manga is named after two bandits called Changa and Manga, who were active in this area in the eighteenth century. Today, Changa Manga is famous for the largest man-made forest of Pakistan located here. The forest was planned around 1865 as a wood repository to provide cheap fire wood for Steam locomotives running between Karachi, Lahore and Amritsar in the late 19th century.











More about the Changa Manga Railway here:
http://pakistaniat.com/2007/10/21/changa-manga-forest-railway/