Multan is about five hours south of Lahore and should be crawling with backpackers. It's a bustling old market town with an ancient old city, surrounded, partially, by a crumbling wall. In the old city are some spectacular buildings with very intricately carved archways, doorways, balconies, and windows. There are ruined Hindu temples, mosques, bustling markets and Sufi shrines. Outside of the old city are the well-known shrines up on the hill by Qasim Bagh Fort. There are plenty of hotels, an airport and rail and road links with Pakistan's major cities. Why I was the only tourist in town I have no idea. Maybe because it's August and it's in one of the hottest deserts on earth? Possibly, yes.