BALTISTAN-DEOSAI-HUNZA
–KALASH JEEP SAFARI:
DAY-01-ISLAMABAD:
Arrival in Islamabad and transfer to hotel. In the
Evening sight seeing tour of Islamabad city.
(B/L/D).
DAY-02-CHILAS:
Jeep drive to Chilas on Karakoram Highway. As we
journey northward from Islamabad on Karakoram
highway to the North Pakistan you slowly begin to
perceive, if not completely understand, the scale
and dimension of the world most tumultuous
landscapes. After six-hour journey we will reach the
Besham, gateway to remote and still mysterious
Kohistan. We will stop in a restaurant for Lunch.
Besham is situated on the banks of River Indus,
boasts its share of alpine beauty, especially in
summer when the river is in spate. It’s here that
the old Silk Route veered westward, over the Shangla
Pass with its magnificent panoramas and vistas, to
cross into Swat. After lunch we will continue our
drive to Chilas, now for some distance, the highway
travel through sheer cliffs that rise impossibly
high above the shadowed road. You feel you can
almost reach out and touch the other side of the
gorge, but it’s only an illusion. Then just before
Sazin, the mountain fall away from the Highway as
the gorge widens out into a sandy valley and the
river meanders briefly through the broad plain.
Ahead lies the Pamir Knot, and westward the lost and
lovely horizons that were formed when two continents
first clashed. On reaching Chilas, transfer to hotel
for overnight (B/L/D).
DAY-03-SKARDU:
After breakfast in hotel, we will drive to Skardu.
The Skardu Highway is one of the most spectacular
roads in the world, following the narrow, gloomy,
miserable, and spectacularly high ravine of the
River Indus for mile after mile. Never a blade of
grass relieves the monotony of the hostile rock.
Only the jade, green river, tumbling and foaming in
stretches of white water, relieves the gray, brown,
sere, and unrelenting walls of boulder strewn rock,
and cliffs. Like its larger sister, the Karakoram
Highway, it represents one of the world’s major
feats of the civil engineering and already Skardu,
long a Mecca for the high altitude mountaineers, has
become a major tourist resort as the buses, trucks,
cars, jeeps and the coaches’ flood down the road
across the bridges to the town. On reaching Skardu,
transfer to hotel for overnight (B/L/D).
DAY-04-ASKOLE:
After breakfast, we will drive to Askole village.
Askole village is famous for its gateway to the
major mountaineering and trekking expeditions that
lead over longest glaciers on earth outside the
polar region and to the base of numerous high peaks,
Like K2, Gasherbrum, Broad Peak, Trango Towers, Ogre
Peaks and many others, o/n in tents (B/L/D).
DAY-05-SKARDU:
Drive to Skardu. While drive to Skardu, we will
visit the famous Shigar valley, which is
picturesquely set in a lush green valley and enjoy a
pleasant climate. After sigh seeing in Shigar town
we will continue our drive to reach Skardu, o/n in
hotel (B/L/D).
DAY-06-KHAPLU:
After breakfast, we will drive to Khaplu town, which
is situated south east of Skardu. The construction
of new road from Skardu to Khaplu has reduced the
reaching time. The ever-changing landscapes follow
the sandy valley floor, black mountains reflecting
in the waters of Shyok River. On the slopes, little
communities have carved their traced fields and
homes out of the mountainside, diverting the waters
along a network of ancient irrigation system. The
town is the historic base of numerous journeys of
exploration and expeditions to the mountains in the
region of Karakoram and still the gateway to many
adventurous treks and expeditions. On reaching
Khaplu transfer to hotel for overnight. After Lunch
in hotel, we will walk through the town for sight
seeing. (B/L/D).
DAY-07-SKARDU:
Drive to Skardu, and transfer to hotel. Today we
will visit the Buddhist carving which is located in
the Skardu city. After visiting the Buddhist carving
we will be back in hotel for lunch. After lunch we
will visit the beautiful Kachura Lake famous for
fishing and boating. After visiting the Kachura Lake
we will visit the ancient sixteenth century
fortress, which is known as Kharpocho Fort. It was
constructed by Ali Sher Khan Anchan, who ruled from
Ladakh to Chitral till the end of the 16th
century. The fort is a network of dark corridors and
inky recesses linked by wooden staircases. (B/L/D).
DAY-08-DEOSAI PLAINS-RAMA LAKE:
Drive to Deosai plains, which are above the tree
line and at the average height of 4200 meters above
the sea level are the highest plateaus in the world,
covered with deep snow for more than half the year.
The Deosai Plains are also home to the Himalayans
Brown Bear, Ibex, red fox, golden marmot, wolf,
Ladakh urial, the snow leopard, and a number of
resident and migratory birds. Drive further to the
Astore we will reach Rama, and we will set our camp
at beautiful Rama Lake. (B/L/D).
DAY-09-FREE DAY:
Free day to explore surrounding area, o/n in tents
(B/L/D).
DAY-10-KARIMABAD HUNZA:
Drive to Karimabad Hunza, transfer to hotel.
Karimabad, the capital of Hunza, offers an
awe-inspiring view of Rakaposhi (7788 M). The snows
of Rakaposhi glitter in the moonlight, producing an
atmosphere at once ethereal and sublime. The fairy
tale like castle of Baltit, above Karimabad, is a
Hunza landmark built about 600 years ago. Stilted on
massive legs, its wooden bay windows look out over
the valley. (B/L/D).
DAY-11-KHUNJERAB PASS-SUST:
Drive to Khunjrab pass and drive back to Sust, o/n
in hotel (B/L/D).
DAY-12-GILGIT:
Drive to Gilgit, o/n in hotel (B/L/D). The Gilgit is
the capital city of Northern Areas of Pakistan. The
city has spectacular scenic beauty. (B/L/D)
DAY-13-GILGIT:
Sight seeing tour of Gilgit and surrounding areas.
10 Kms, from Gilgit city is a beautiful rock
engraving of Buddha of 8th century AD, at
the mouth of the Kargah Nallah (Stream). A victory
monument of Taj Mahal, built 700 years ago, is 30
kms, jeep drive from Gilgit (B/L/D).
DAY-14-PHUNDAR:
Drive to Phundar lake, and o/n in tent. Phundar lake
is one of the beautiful lake of North Pakistan and
famous for its trout fishing. (B/L/D).
DAY-15-SHANDUR PASS:
Drive to Shandur Pass (3734 M), a plateau at the
boundary of Gilgit and Chitral, Shandur is famous
for is annual Polo tournament, o/n in tents (B/L/D).
DAY-16-CHITRAL:
Drive to Chitral. Chitral valley at an elevation of
1128 meters is favourite with mountaineers,
trekkers, anglers, naturalists and anthropologists.
The 7705 meter high Trichmir, the highest peak of
the Hindukush Mountains dominates this 322 kms long
exotic valley, o/n in hotel (B/L/D).
DAY-17-18-KALASH VALLEY:
Drive to Kalash. Living echoes of its centuries
isolation still survive in the Kalash valleys of
Bumburet, Rambur, and Birir in Chitral’s far north
where, their history covered by mystery and
uncertain legend, Pakistan’s only pagan community of
Kalash known as the Black Infidels, lives. Hardly
any communities in the world can claim such an
inspiring legacy as their mountain valley landscape,
a panorama of lush green fields studied with fruit
orchards, and groves of walnut and plane trees run
through by sparkling ribbons of crystal clear
streams. The Kalash has no recorded history and
their genealogy is lost in the mist of time. Lost in
the limbo of antiquity though they may be, the
Kalash are far from primitive. The Kalash women wear
black gowns of coarse cloth in summer and hard-spun
wool dyed in black in winter. Their picturesque
headgear is made of woolen black material decked out
with cowrie shells, buttons and crowned with a large
coloured feather. The Kalash are a happy people,
fond of dance and music with three different dances,
and mark the changing season of the year with a
spring festival, harvest festival in the mid of
summer, a walnut and grape festival in October and a
New year festival. The dates vary each year, but the
dancing, singing, and feasting is a vigorous
celebration of the joy of life climaxed with
sacrificial goat slaughtered on their smoke
blackened fire altars. We will have time of two days
to visit the Kalash valleys, and sight seeing there,
o/n in tents (B/L/D).
DAY-19-CHITRAL:
Drive to Chitral, o/n in hotel (B/L/D)
DAY-20-DIR:
Drive to Dir, o/n in hotel (B/L/D).
DAY-21-ISLAMABAD:
Drive to Islamabad, o/n in hotel (B/L/D).
DAY-22-ISLAMABAD:
Free day in Islamabad for sight seeing, o/n in hotel
(B/L/D).
DAY-23-DEPARTURE:
Transfer to Islamabad airport for fly back to your
destination and END OF OUR SERVICES.
