Best Experience in a Red Light District

Most visitors to Lahore's Heera Mandi aren't interested in the history of this onetime diamond district. Nor do they come to contemplate the baroque fa?es of the quarter's gracefully decayed, 17th century haveli , or historic residences. Instead, visitors to the Heera Mandi are here for cheap sex, for this is the city's red-light area, and gaudily dressed prostitutes beckon from beneath the battered wooden archways of almost every door. Many are or claim to be descendants of the nautch?the fabled royal courtesans famed for their mesmerizing dances and stirring songs?but the best that any of them can manage today is a...