Wednesday 19 February 2014

Day 6 Rest Day

Today we had an early start to head to the Mona Remount Depo, which is around 2.5 hrs from Faisalabad.
Today I am not feeling quite so chipper, as Jacky has shared her cold with me so I have a very croaky voice!

The bus journey was long, but our police escort seem to thoroughly enjoy putting on the lights and sirens to accompany us. Good news is that we seem to fly through the tolls.

Mona is stunning, its one of the most manicured places I have seen in Pakistan with everything spotlessly tidy.

We had high tea on arrival which consisted of samosas, peppery egg sandwiches, some other savory nibbles and deep fried strands of some thing, which was a bit like a strand of doughnut deep fried in sugar.


Then two carriages of 4 in hand arrived, and two carriages of 2 in hand. All pulled by either Suffolk punches or Percheron's. We all climbed aboard and were treated to a carriage tour of part of the Mona facility.


This included a heavy horse breeding section, donkey breeding sections.

The tour halted at the Mona polo ground and there was a show put on for us which included vaulting, laying down horses, dancing horses and a tent pegging display.


Adrian in the British Quarters
We then moved onto the Arab and thoroughbred breeding section, all are kept in spotless paddocks with round field shelters.
My favorite part was the Arab babies where they had put out raw cane sugar for us to hand feed them. The babies squabbled and bustled for prime position and being pure Arab were all gentle but skittish and licked all sugar off everyone's hands.
We also saw the breeding mares with foals
Finally we saw the British built buildings at Mona which we beautifully maintained with highly polished brass.
We sat down for lunch which was also good food and included freshly churned butter and bread.


We then headed back on the bus for the trip back to Faisalabad




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