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Published 09 May, 2009 12:00am

Around town: Fortress Stadium, Lahore: A world of entertainment

Fortress Stadium — what comes into your mind when you hear this? Lots of rides, tasty food, shopping and world of entertainment. Fortress Stadium is one of the busy commercial areas of Lahore, located in Cantt near Upper Mall — a fun place where people of all age groups like to go and enjoy. The obvious places to check out would be the Joy Land, Sind Baad, boutiques and food points.


The Stadium is the site of the famous 'National horse and cattle show' which is one of the most famous festivals of Lahore. This includes a display of livestock, but also many spectacular feats of horsemanship, tent pegging, dressage, camel dancing, racing, folk dances, pomp, pageantry, mass-band displays and grand fireworks known as the Tattoo shows in the evening. It was accompanied by exhibition displaying Pakistani craftsmanship and industry.
In Joy Land, there are many rides like Flying carpet, Flying horse, Clone around, Hamaliya, Tea time, Hully gully, Shake off, Poni ride, Flying elephant, Fun castle slide, Water boat, nasa and Swinger. Amazing rides like Discovery, Free fall, Crazy boat, and Bull riding, provide thrilling excitement to the visitors.


In Joy Land, you have a choice to just buy a wrist band and have access to all the rides instead of buying tickets for each ride. For kids crazy about video games, there is a gaming room as well.


Sind Baad is perfect for small kids with separate token rides. This place has some exciting cool games in which elders can also partake, like Air hockey, Ufo pusher, Street basket ball, Dead man cove, Fight on ice and Venture. Eye catcher, Sweet factory, Dream bowl, and Dream town games attract visitors to play and win some gifts, like toys or candies.


Furthermore, when you run out of your energy batteries, you can recharge with any of you favourite fast food outlets as well.


Fortress Stadium is truly a shopper's paradise. The creativity of its people springs forth in the huge variety of shopping one can do in this area. Dozens of boutiques along the fortress Stadium offer trendy ready to wear formal and casual wear for ladies, gents and for kids. There is a tremendous range of shoes, perfumes, cosmetics, designers' jewellery, decorations, gifts, toys and other accessories.


A few years back, a new building is built in the fortress stadium known as Expo Centre. This venue provides facilities and services for visitors and exhibitors both. It includes a good cinema that shows English and Urdu language films.


This amazing place sure visitors coming to here every time they need a little excitement in their routine life style. The objective of this place is to provide quality entertainment regardless of their age. Find out more at Fortress Stadium and have fun.

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