Khewra Salt Mine is a major vacation destination, with
around 250,000 guests a year, gaining it respectable income. Guests are taken
into the mine on a train. There are various pools of salty water inside. The
Badshahi Mosque was inbuilt the mining tunnels with multi-colored salt blocks
something like fifty years back.
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Other skilful carvings very in the mine could be a simulated of Minar-e-Pakistan, a statue of
Allama Iqbal, an aggregation of precious stones that shape the name of Muhammad
in Urdu script, a model of the Great
Wall of China and an alternate of
the Mall Road of Murree. In 2003 two stages of improvement of visitor
offices and attractions were done, at an aggregate cost of 9 million rupees.
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A clinical ward with 20 couches was made in 2007, costing
10 million rupees, for the medicine of asthma and other respiratory diseases
utilizing salt aid. The "Visit Pakistan Year 2007" occasion included
a train safari visit of Khewra Salt Mine.
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In February 2011
Pakistan
routes from
Lahore
and
Rawalpindi
to Khewra. For this reason the line station of Khewra was refurbished
with the assistance of a private firm.
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