Pakistan's most well-kept secret

[Zarvan]

Run out of holiday destinations? Here's a beautiful corner in the northern areas you probably still haven't been to: Shigar.

Shigar is a place in Gilgit-Baltistan where you will find a desert with proper sand dunes along with the rivers and shrubbery normally found in the region.

At an altitude of 2800 meters, the valley is ensconced between snow-clad peaks; and has everything to offer from plains and meadows, to forests and trees laden with cherry, apple, apricot, mulberry and streams of cold, fresh water at just about every corner.

Records show that this area was once called Little Tibet. But there isn't a single trace of Buddhist culture here today, neither in clothes nor in food. The approximately 70,000 people who live here are predominantly Shia.

The valley is Pakistan's most well kept secret; it seemed to me the safest place in the country. No Taliban, no drones, no mobile snatchers and extortionists.

Where else can a woman walk about town, any time of the day, and reach home without being ogled at, catcalled or touched?


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Timber lacing for strengthening walls through the cator and cribbage technique has been revived. —Photo by Zofeen Ebrahim

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[Zarvan]

 

[khalifa786]

Nice Pics....How is the International Tourism flourishing there?

 

[Pukhtoon]

Been there in May 2014. Awsum place ..

 

[krash]

At an altitude of 2800 meters, the valley is ensconced between snow-clad peaks; and has everything to offer from plains and meadows, to forests and trees laden with cherry, apple, apricot, mulberry and streams of cold, fresh water at just about every corner.

No plains, no meadows, no forests.....what is the writer talking about?

Records show that this area was once called Little Tibet. But there isn't a single trace of Buddhist culture here today, neither in clothes nor in food. The approximately 70,000 people who live here are predominantly Shia.

1) Baltistan is (still) called little Tibet, not Shigar, and not because of any link to Buddhism but because of its arid valleys which look very similar to the Tibetan plateau. 2) Buddhist traces are all over the place; Buddhist ruins, Buddhist wall carvings, Tibetan influenced architecture, etc., etc.

The valley is Pakistan's most well kept secret; it seemed to me the safest place in the country. No Taliban, no drones, no mobile snatchers and extortionists.

1) Its no secret. 2) All of Gilgit Baltistan is like that. Shigar isn't any more special.


Did she actually go there?

 

[ghazi52]

Porter on the way to Concordia, K2 Base Camp.

 

[osama zafar]

Also the kashmir kel and neelum areas are really beautiful too!

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Links to first posts are broken hence images are not loaded for me.

 

[batool100]

wow wow wow so beautiful ... I m love in it....