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I spent two months in total in Pakistan, mostly in the north,
in the mountains where it was MUCH cooler than on lower ground.
In this part of the world, the scenery is fantastic and people are very friendly.

 

khunjerab pass

The Khunjerab Pass (4730 m) makes the border with Xinjiang (China)

 

landslide pakistan

Northern Areas : On the KKH (Karkorum Highway).
What is hanging above the Hunza river is all that is left from a truck that go burried under
a landslide a few days before I passed here. The driver and the cargo were saved but not the truck.
The dark colour of the river is due to the silt eroded by the glaciers.

 

pasu pakistan

Mountain scenery near Pasu

 

baltit

Northern Areas : Baltit fort (Karimabad)

 

ultar meadow

View from Ultar Meadow on the peaks Lady Finger (left, 6000 m)
and Ultar peak (right, 7300 m)

 

pakistan bridge

Northern Areas : Bridge over the Hunza river
(more briges here)

 

minapin

Northern Areas : Minapin glacier (here about 3000 m, the summits are over 6000 m)

 

nuristan

North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) : Sheikanandeh Nuristani village in Bumburet valley
(last village before the Afghan border in the Hindukush mountains)

 


pakistan truck

Trucks are very decorated by their proud owners

 

baltistan

Terrassed fields in Baltistan

 

khaplu

Near the village of Khaplu, 40 km from the line of control (Baltistan)

 

dir pakistan

A street in Dir at the time of local elections

 

chitral

Mosque in Chitral (North-West Frontier Province)

 

swat valley

Swat valley (near Maydan)

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Photos Copyright D. LeGourrierec 2002
No photo to be used without my agreement

 


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