Tour De Northern areas of Pakistan, home of "K2"

[aaark35]

This trip is dedicated to my Nephew Baja9007 (Ajab khan) ,we started of from peshawar northern city of pakistan to Naran (hill station) , then from Naran we took Babusar Pass, (Elevation 4,173 m.....13,690 feet...) and continue our journey towards Astore via KKh (karakoram highway), spend night in the base of the one of the heighest mountains of Pakistan Nangaparbat (8,126 m).. then from here we went to Skardu a small city stop before ppl go to K2 then we went to Hunza and in last from hunza we went to Naltar where we saw a magestic Emreld lake . total travel 2300km in 11 days daily travel time 6 to 8 hours .Deosai National Park is at an average elevation of 4,114 metres (13,497 ft) above the sea level, and thats where i got stuck but thanks to my buddies and winch Naran valley

Babusar pass

Deosai plains

 

[Tecnos]

Very nice. thanks for sharing? Any issues with power at that altitude?

 

[aaark35]

starting from peshawar to naran valley our first stop travel time 7 hours
349 Km you will find some local art on the trucks back funny thing is these artist never did any kind of courses they cant write a word but they can draw ,Amazing isnt it ! ...we are a part of Frontier 4x4 club you can follow our activities on our face book group page

 

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our first stop after 4 hours , Kunhar river near Balakot during July. The town was completely destroyed in the massive earthquake on 8 October 2005 .mag 8 earth quick now its completely rebuild

 

[aaark35]

@Tecnos........ yes after 8000 feet you can feel your engine responce and smoke they get little num

 

[aaark35]

you will also see summer migration of nomades which comes in winter to lower areas and goes back to these hilly areas in summer after cold and grassy lands for there cattles , they paint there heards with different colors so they can easily recognize their own

ones ..

 

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land slide areas .... suspension bridge ,i will try my best to upload the video of the suspension bridge crossing on my lc80 in coming posts , animal heard is a part of summer m

 

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local resturants on the way in cold glaciers waters

 

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water falls on the way

 

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glacier crossings ...

 

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these jeeps are rebuild in pindi city the combo of these jeeps are b1 engine with toyota ssr or 4x4 pickup gearbox and they can easily take 8 to 13 passengers on the roads where normal cars cant and they are all taxies you can rent them and enjoy the ride on 3 to 5000rs (in dollars its 60$ a trip ) more or less there chasies are streched

 

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local village

 

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horse ridders on the way offering horse ridding 100rs or a 1 dollar a trip from point to point some 500 meter .they are locals and basically this is their earning time ppl come from cities with their families to relax in summers . they decorate their horses to atract customers

 

[aaark35]

our rigs ......thats all for today tommorow our journey will start from Naran valley to Astore which is almost 7 to 8 hour journey and it goes through Babusar top (1300feet) , kkh and ends on astore, almost base of Nangaparbat mountain .... you can find detail on google of

( Nangaparbat pakistan)

 

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A journey from naran to astore starts

 

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height syndrome bj60 giving black smoke and angel cloud

 

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local barber doing his job on the floor

 

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