Photos du Pakistan


Le nom du Pakistan signifie 'pays des purs' en ourdou et en persan. Le Nord du Pakistan (ourdou: پاکستان) est un endroit merveilleux à visiter, grâce à la gentillesse des gens ('vous êtes un invité dans ce pays, bienvenue au Pakistan') et à la magnificence des paysages de montagne. J'ai passé deux mois au total au Pakistan, principalement dans Hunza, Baltistan et autour de Chitral, où il faisait moins chaud et humide que sur les basses terres de Peshawar ou Rawalpindi-Islamabad. Le pays abrite de nombreux groupes ethniques différents avec un grand nombre de langues. L'ourdou est la lingua franca et de nombreuses personnes parlent aussi l'anglais.

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

Hunza valley (Urdu: ہنزہ) : Baltit fort in Karimabad

 

ultar meadow

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

 

pakistan bridge

Bridge over the Hunza river
(more briges photos)

 

minapin

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

Baltistan (Urdu: بلتستان): terrassed fields viewed from a hill

 

khaplu

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

 

satpara lake

Satpara Lake near Skardu

 

dir pakistan

A street in Dir at the time of local elections

 

chitral

Mosque in Chitral (Urdu: چترال)

 

swat valley

Swat valley (near Maydan)

 


Pakistan was part of the 2000-2001 trip

story : bus from Pakistan to Iran
read about this part of my trip

banknotes / billets de banque

anecdote : bus du Pakistan vers l'Iran
lire sur cette partie du voyage

 

                               previous : Xinjiang
next : Iran

 
 

 


 

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© Denis LeGourriérec
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