A ride to a Historical place in Amb Sharif: Tombs of Amb Sharif

So its like I am getting more and more interested in riding, and especially riding to the historical places around my city. This time the destination was a place called Amb Sharif in District Khushab, about 65km away from my city.
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We were two of us on my 125 for the ride and enjoyed every moment of it. The off-road part, the water was salty, very bitter. Salt mines of Warcha are quite near from here:

We started at about 8 in the morning, toward West of Joharabad is the city Quaidabad, from there we had to go toward North for Amb Sharif, part of jounrney from Quaidabad to Am Sharif is off-road, but great fun.

About to reach our destination. A pic from some destroyed building:
And finally the historical place. As the situation is, no one is very sure about the history of this place. It is uncertain whether the remains are from the Buddhist era or those of the Hinduism. Anyways, if anyone has any information, you are more than welcome to share it.
There were only these two buildings remaining there. The rest has been destroyed. This is the bigger one:

And the smaller one that is in its original condition, a beautiful description of the brilliant architecture of that time:


Some more pics we took there:




Notice the detail of the artistic work:






People have dug gold made stuff from here and sold it illegally, here is a proof from many of the pits we saw there:


The bigger temple:


The stairs leading to the temple, typical of the times of antiquity..




The bigger temple is not in 100% original condition. Notice the two big pillars in front. They have been made to protect the already destroyed building. The good thing is that the stone has been used that matches the original stone as used in its construction:




The bigger temple has stairs in that that take you to the first and second floor. Of course we were going up now. It was pretty dark in there:








The stairs leading to the top:


A view from the top:




Amazing craftsmanship:


Thats when I took some nice pics of the Kid






Next we explored a bit more and found some more ruins, a pic from there:




From this place we noticed some more stairs, partly destroyed:

Some of the walls still remain here and a look at them gives the reason why. Every piece of rock is placed with small individual pieces of flat rocks and some cement like material was filled to build it:




A view from this height, see if you can find my bike in this pic..


Going down from here I saw this outer skin of a snake, hardly saved myself from falling as the path was very difficult.


The journey back was equally exciting.


Notice the mountain in the background. This is the doing of the salt, it was like the salt was eating it up:










This is the look of my table after this particular ride. From left to right. The first rock is the one of which is used in the construction of the temple, the second one a small piece of the red rock as in the pics above where the salt has played its magic. The third one is Gipsum. The fourth one is salt.