This trip surely takes me down the memory lane. Year 2005, final semester of BCS class, lots and lots of memories. Too bad time flies so fast!
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Destination:** Hunza (Karimabad), Nagar Valley and Khunjerab Pass right up to Pak-China Border
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Date: **6th to 11th July 2005
Depart City: Wah Cantt
Mode of Transport: Toyota High Roofs x 2
Time to reach destination: Approx 20hrs to reach Karimabad by road. Lots of stops on the way.
Camera+Lens: At that time I was too poor to afford a camera These pictures were taken by two guys in our group who had 1 or 2 mega pixel cameras. In 2005, the phone cameras were crappy.
Hunza, Karimabad. Beautiful and Clean. I still remember the whole area was in pristine condition, no garbage, no beggars, Peaceful place to be. The Fort you see is Hunza Fort. We had a guided tour inside.
**Nagar Valley, just across Karimabad. We took jeeps for a day trip. Part of road was non-metallic and pretty narrow as well. Certainly not for urban drivers. May be the road has improved after all these years. **
**On our way towards Khunjerab Pass. The real fun area, we were fortunate that we travelled on KKH before the Atta-abad incident when the glacier came down and drowned large part of the KKH. Nowadays there is a huge lake and boats are used to go towards Khunjerab Pass.
** The first picture is of the landslide area. Stones continuously came down from the slope when we passed it. The second picture shows the tributary of river Indus. The water passed so fast that it was impossible to hear anyone.
**Finally the Pak-China Border. We reached there around noon time. There was no one on Pakistani side. The Chinese were patrolling their side. There is a buffer zone where we went and took photos with Chinese soldiers.
Even in July it was extremely cold. The border open from May until September. Locals of Gilgit and Hunza can go to China side without visas and same is for Chinese citizens. They can come until Gilgit. The last major town on Pakistani side is Soust dry port. Many Chinese had shops, restuarants there. The dry port was full of containers of China goods.**
Overall the trip was memorable, exciting and full of adventure. If any of you ever get a chance to visit these places, don’t hesitate. You will remember the trip for your whole life. The other side of Sakardu and Deosai is also worth a visit.
This particular trip was in 2005 when I was young and doing BCS from COMSATS. It was our class trip in final semester.
I like to travel and since I’m alone so its bit easy. Some trips are part of my work but some are for getting rid of boredom.
Anyhow like I said some trips were part of my work so the travel and stay during the work was paid for. But the trip to Lisbon was on my own and if you plan ahead the trip can be very cheap for example I got the Lisbon return ticket for 45 euro in winter. The normal price can be between 150 to 250+euro depending on the season.
These pictures were taken by two guys in our group who had 1 or 2 mega pixel cameras. In 2005, the phone cameras were crappy.
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That’s interesting.