Trekking from Islamabad to Khanpur Dam

This is the story of a trek by Osama and Yasir from Islamabad to Khanpur Dam via Kot Jandaan. We started around 9:00 am and reached Jandaan around 10:15 am. This was a gain of around 400 m (the altitude of Islamabad is around 600 m and Jandaan is around 1000 m). After a 15 min stop we started moving further through the valleys gradually going down from a peak at 1000 m. There were several possible paths along the way but we stuck to the wide jeep track that goes all the way up to Khanpur. At around 1:30 pm, after covering a distance of 20 to 22 km, we reached the main road leading up to Tanawara. We got a ride from here and explored the areas around the dam. After heaving a lunch and some tea at Tanawara we headed back to Islamabad. We got a wagon up to Taxila and from there a taxi to E-11 Islamabad. The taxi guy charged us a very reasonable amount of Rs. 600.