K-2 Northern Areas
Northern areas of Pakistan are blessed with some of the tallest peaks and mountains in the world in the Great Himalyians. The most popular and renowned peak is K-2 as known also Mt. Godwin Austin. Its height is about 28,250 ft. or 8611 meters which makes its 2nd highest peak in the World after Mount [...]
History
Manuscript of the Buddhist Jyoti text written in the Brahmi script, from Gilgit. Gilgit was an important city on the Silk Road through which Buddhism was spread from India to the rest of Asia. A large number of Buddhist Sanskrit texts, included the long version of the Heart Sutra have been unearthed in Gilgit. The [...]
Places of Tourisms
Ayubia is a tourist resort. The main attraction here is a chair lift ride with breath taking views. One can stay & spend a few days to appreciate the beauty of the area. Hotels in Ayubia are not of international standards but some are good like PTDC’s motel, Hotel Willow Grove, Montana Lodges etc. Dungagali: [...]
Baltit fort
In former times survival of the feudal regimes of Hunza was ensured by the impressive Baltit fort, that sit on top of Karimabad. The foundations of the fort are said to date back around 700 years, but there have been rebuilds and alterations over the centuries. In the 16th century the Thum married a princess [...]
K2
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. It is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range, on the border between the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. However, those who climb K2 must acquire entry via Pakistan as the Chinese side is inaccessible. Chinese authorities officially [...]
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth. Nanga Parbat means “Naked Mountain” in Urdu, parbat deriving from the Sanskrit word parvata meaning “mountain”. Nanga Parbat was one of the deadliest of the eight-thousanders for climbers in the first half of the twentieth century; since that time it has been less so, though still [...]
Gilgit
Gilgit is the most important city in the Northern Area of Pakistan. Althought the town itself is not very big, nor extremely exciting, it is the best place to start exploring the northern region which has some of the best mountain scenery and so called Virgin Beauty of unexplored world, the world that is yet [...]
Murree
Murree is the largest of the resort towns of the Galyat area of Pakistan, and is a tehsil of the Rawalpindi District. It adjoins the proposed tehsil of Circle Bakote district in the Abbottabad region. During the British Raj, its altitude was originally established at 7,000 feet, but at present its accepted altitude is 2,300 [...]
The Hunza Valley – The Original Shangri La?
Who are the Hunza People? In the early 70s, National Geographic ran an extensive series of articles investigating claims of long-lived people around the world. The Hunza People, who live in the North of Pakistan were one of those peoples. The Hunza and the valley in which they live was famous in the region. The [...]
Northern Areas (Pakistan)
The Northern Areas (Urdu: شمالی علاقہ جات, Shumālī Ilāqe Jāt), officially referred to by the government of Pakistan as the Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA), is the northernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. It borders Pakistan to the west, Afghanistan to the north, China to [...]
