Silk Road 12 : Onto Shigar Fort and onwards
This post is part of a series called Silk Road Pakistan June 2016 Khaplu is a small town, and did not seem to be prosperous; and with the except of the Trekking & tourism business, did not seem to have much else here except agriculture. Balti is again the main language here; based on a…
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Silk Road 11 : Skardu; and Khaplu Fort, Pakistan
This post is part of a series called Silk Road Pakistan June 2016 Skardu is a large town, located in a valley at the confluence of the Indus river and the Shigar rivers, about 8,200ft above sea level. It is within the Karakoram mountain range. It is also a big military and police garrison town,…
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Silk Road 10: Gilgit to Skardu, Pakistan
This post is part of a series called Silk Road Pakistan June 2016 Started early from Gilgit (Serena) after a nice breakfast (usually included in hotel room price). Gilgit valley and town from the Serena Hotel Off to school, Gilgit early morning After about 30kms on the KKH, we branched off where we had a…
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Silk Road 9: Karakorum Highway; Karimabad, Pakistan
This post is part of a series called Silk Road Pakistan June 2016 With heavy hearts, we left Passu to make our way to Karimabad, stopping at Passu glacier, Borith Lake (where we came across a group of University students having a picnic and dancing Gulmit, Attabad Lake (beautiful yet tragic) and then finally to…
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