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A date with a touch of Pakistan.

Pakistan inspires a date full of color, tea and stories. You can try these ideas at home without needing access to specific places.

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4 plans you can actually try.

Use the country as inspiration. Check local opening hours and make a plan together.

Combine two local ideas

Choose a combination. Are both ideas out of the question? Find places close to each other or spread the two ideas over two days.

Look around and make something

  1. Urdu poetry in translation

    Choose a short Urdu poem in translation and take turns reading the translation aloud to explore its rhythm.

  2. Design a truck art card

    Look at examples of Pakistani truck art and each design a colourful card for the other with patterns and a personal message.

Try two new things

  1. Chai with your own blend

    Make two small cups of chai at home with different proportions of tea, milk and spices, and compare their aromas together.

  2. Sketching Indus patterns

    Look at a museum object or textile from Pakistan and each draw a small pattern you would put on a new object.

Try two new things

  1. Design a truck art card

    Look at examples of Pakistani truck art and each design a colourful card for the other with patterns and a personal message.

  2. Chai with your own blend

    Make two small cups of chai at home with different proportions of tea, milk and spices, and compare their aromas together.

Things to do together anywhere

Try these too.

You can also try these ideas in Pakistan. Choose a place that suits you and check what's available locally.

Indoors
ALSO FUN HERE Craft workshopTry a short workshop together in a technique neither of you knows.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Bookshop dateEach find a book in a bookshop that you would recommend to the other person.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Hot chocolate taste testMake two kinds of hot chocolate and give each other a blind tasting.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Creative classTake a short class together in making something neither of you has ever made before.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Workshop swapEach choose a skill you can teach the other in twenty minutes.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Library rouletteChoose a book for each other from a shelf you normally skip.View the idea
Outdoors
ALSO FUN HERE One-page outdoor reading clubEach bring a short text and read your favourite sentences aloud outdoors.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Park picnicEach bring something you enjoy sharing and find a quiet spot in the park.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Sketching outdoors togetherBring paper and each draw the same view in ten minutes.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Long evening picnicBring a light meal and eat outside as the evening gently unfolds.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Street art treasure huntFind three murals or other public artworks in your neighborhood together.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Winter photo walkOn a short walk, each take five photos of details the other person misses.View the idea
Indoors or outdoors
ALSO FUN HERE Coffee in an unfamiliar neighbourhoodTake the bus or cycle to a neighbourhood where you've never had coffee together.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE An hour of reading aloud by the waterEach bring a short story or poem and read a little aloud to each other.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Leaf printsCollect fallen leaves and use them to make prints on paper.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Three places, three poemsBring a few short poems and read one at each of three places.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Digital postcard chainSend each other three photos that together tell a mini story of your day.View the idea ALSO FUN HERE Coffee with time to lingerAgree on half an hour to start with and see whether you'd like another stroll.View the idea
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