Tourism in Gilgit Baltistan

 The travel industry in Gilgit-Baltistan, an authoritative unit of Pakistan, centers around the mountains. Gilgit-Baltistan borders Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province toward the west, a little part of the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan toward the north, Xinjiang, China toward the upper east, the Indian domain Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh toward the southeast, and the Pakistani-controlled territory of Azad Kashmir toward the south.

Nanga Parbat from Fairy Meadows

K2 as seen from Concordia

Satpara Lake, Skardu, in 2002

Attabad Lake, Hunza

Gilgit-Baltistan is home to five of the “eight-thousanders” and to in excess of fifty tops over 7,000 meters (23,000 ft). GilgitAstore and Skardu are the three principle centers for endeavors to those mountains. The area is home to a portion of the world’s most noteworthy mountain ranges. The primary reaches are the Karakoram and the western Himalayas. The Pamir Mountains are toward the north, and the Hindu Kush misleads the west. Among the most elevated mountains are K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen) and Nanga Parbat, the last being one of the most dreaded mountains on the planet.

Three of the world’s longest glacial masses outside the polar locales are found in Gilgit-Baltistan: the Biafo Glacier, the Baltoro Glacier, and the Batura Glacier. There are, what’s more, a few high-elevation lakes in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Karakoram Highway Edit

The Karakoram Highway is the significant parkway of Gilgit-Baltistan, which associates the locale with the remainder of Pakistan toward the south and with China at its north end. It is most noteworthy cleared street in world is at times named as the “eighth Wonder of World.”[1]

Major valleys Edit

Gilgit Baltistan is home of world most elevated and lovely valleys. These incorporate Ghancha, Shiger, Astore Valley, Gilgit, Ghizer Valley, Hunza Valley, Skardu and Nagar Valley.

Hunza Valley Edit

Hunza Valley is viewed as one of the most excellent valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan. It comprises of Upper Hunza, Central Hunza, and Lower Hunza. Karimabad is the significant city of the valley and has all offices for mountain dwellers and tourists.[2] The notoriety of the Hunza Valley and the measure of the travel industry there is expected to some degree to its relative availability and nearness to the Karakoram Highway.[3]

Significant vacation spots in Hunza are:

Attabad Lake – A significant pool of Hunza Valley. It was made after an avalanche at Hunza River close to Attabad town on 4 January 2010. The subsequent damming of the waterway made the lake gradually structure, lowering a few towns and dislodging up to 6,000 people.[4]

Baltit Fort – An old archaic fortification situated in Karimabad. It is additionally an UNESCO World Heritage Site.[5]

Hussaini Suspension Bridge – A long wooden engineered overpass over Hunza River close to Husaaini town. It is once in a while alluded locally to as the “Indiana Jones Bridge” It is named as perhaps the most risky bridge in the world.[6]

Khunjerab Pass – At 4,693 meters, this is the most elevated boundary crossing on the planet. It is likewise the main present day crossing on the China-Pakistan line. Most travelers visit on a roadtrip from Hunza to see the line and afterward leave. The encompassing region is likewise a piece of the Khunjerab National Park, which was set up to secure neighborhood, jeopardized untamed life, explicitly the Marco Polo sheep.[7]

Skardu Valley Edit

Skardu Valley is situated at juncture of Indus and shiger streams encompassed by lofty pinnacles of Karakoram.

Lakes Edit

Sheosar Lake in Deosai National Park, Skardu

Satpara sar Lake in Skardu, Baltistan

Katzura sar Lake in Skardu, Baltistan

Katpana Lake in Skardu, Baltistan

Zharba Tso Lake in Shigar, Baltistan

Phoroq Tso Lake in Skardu, Baltistan

Lake Kharfak in Gangche, Baltistan

Sozgung Lake in Thalay Valley, Baltistan

Byarsa Tso Lake in Gultari, Astore

Borith Lake in Gojal, upper Hunza, Gilgit

Rama sar Lake close to Astore

Surge sar Lake close to Nagar, Gilgit

Karambar sar Lake at Kromber Pass Ishkoman Valley, Ghizer

Barodaroksh Lake in Bar Valley, Nagar

Ghorashi Lake in Ghandus Valley, Kharmang

Attabad Lake, Hunza

Khalti Lake, Gupis-Yasin District

Mountains Edit

Eight-thousanders Edit

K2 (Mount Godwin Austin/Chogori)

Nanga Parbat

Gasherbrum l

Expansive Peak

Gasherbrum ll

Seven-thousander

Gasherbrum lll

Gasherbrum lV

Masherbrum (K1)

Rakaposhi

Saltoro Kangri (K10)