Day- 1 Arrival in Islamabad city tour of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan a modern architected city and Rawal Pindi is the old city of Pakistan unique with old architecture and history.
Day-2 to 4. Fly to Gilgit or drive to Chilas
there are two ways to go by the Karakorum Highway the eighth wonder of the
world or over Babusar Pass ( 4100) meters from the beautiful Naran and Kaghan
valleys. If you are lucky enough with weather there is an hour flight to Gilgit
otherwise drive to Chilass for 10 to 12 hour and overnight stay in a hotel.
Day 3 to 5 Gilgit to
Ishkoman: 4 hours driving along with the beautiful villages of Ghizar district.
The last village of Emit is the starting point of the trek.
This is two weeks interesting trek in the Hindukush starts
either from Chitral or Ishkoman we need special permission from the Ministry of tourism
Islamabad as it is in the restricted zone. It is accessible to Gilgit to
Ishkoman and begins the trek from Bilhanz the last village of Emit takes five
hours from Gilgit. Bilhnaz is a village at the altitude of 2900 meters the first
day in the tents the temperature 20 C in the month of July.
Day-6 Trek to Matramdan: It is a smooth
walk of 3-4 hours trek along the Qurumbar River on the jeep road to the last
permanent village of the Emit Ishkoman. There are spectacular views of
snow-capped peaks of Hindukush all the way. There are 22 houses with Wakhi
speaking people hospitable and welcome you to the village warmly. Camp at 3200
meters, you will enjoy the day.
Day-7 Trek to
Warghut: It is a great day along the east bank Qurumbar River with the
views beautiful landscape. The first two hours of the day are smooth as the
previous day and another on the west bank of the river takes you Piakhing, and
the moraine of Warghut Glacier a beautiful summer village of Warghut with the field
of barley and wheat. Another one kilometers takes you to the campsite with
spring water under birch trees at the altitude of 3600 meters opposite of
Chilinji Glacier.
Day-8 Trek to
Sokhtarabad: it is an interesting walk of four to five hours with views of
the spectacular views of white top peaks adds
to the joy of your holidays, you will cross the grandeur of the
Sokhtarabad Glacier and the views of Bortha Borthi Pass to Wakhan. From here to
the west the famous Chilinji Pass trek goes to the west to Chupuson Valley of
upper Hunza. Sokhatarabad is the most beautiful campsite of this trek at the
altitude of 3600 meters under the trees. There some summer houses from the friendly
people of Emit who spend summer with goats and sheep. They welcome you to their
summer houses offering local dishes. You will enjoy the camp and have a comfortable night here.
Day- 9 Trek to Shuinj:
The trek takes 5 to 6 hours along the east bank of Qurumbar River it is a
easy and smooth walk for the first two hours then you are going to walk on the
Chitibio Glacier on ice, the starting point, and the last point is a moraine
crossing mostly with white ice having crevasses too. The glacier takes about
two hours to cross and you climb to Shuinj there are summer houses of the Gujar
people from the Emit valley who spend their summer like the ones in Sokhtarabad.
It is nice campsite on the altitude of 3900 meters with views of splendid
white heat covering peaks of Qurumber that adds to the joy of your trekking.
The camp here is wonderful with soft green ground and a bit colder than the
previous camp.
Day-10 Trek to
QUrumbar Lake: This day you reach the altitude of 4000 meters to camp at
the magnificent Qurumbar Lake with spectacular sceneries and beautiful flowers
all around the lake. It is 3 kilometers long and two kilometers wide blue sky
lake full of sea birds swimming in it. The walk from Shuinj to the lake is much
easier and you feel fresh after acclimatization you reach here as my experience.
A little feeling of altitude I experienced
during my trips in the past. The campsite is at 4100 meters the last end
entering KPK Province with a full view of the lake on a field soft green grass
and wild onions’ ground. At night the
temperature decreases to – some times. It is worth having an extra day and
enjoy walk up towards Wakhan corridor or climbing peaks of 5000 meters around
here if you are interested in it.
Day-11 Trek to
Showarshore/or Lashkargaz: There are four options from here of 4 more days trek, the one
continue down to Ishkarwarz, Lasht and Mastuj, Chitral or to Gilgit (over
Shandur Pass) the second to Chikar cross the Darkot Pass to Yasin and Gilgit.
The third option is to go to Zindighram Pass to Darko and the fourth one is to
go to Ishkoman by Chiantir Glaceir over Amin Pass (5100 m) to Ghotolti (which
has newly been discovered by our guide Amin Shah along with Italian trekkers in
2004).
Day-12 Trek to Zindighram Base Camp: It
takes 4-6 hours to walk on a smooth easy path with views of the Wakhan Corridor
ridges to your right, Chikar Zom 6400m, and Kaio Zom 6700 m all the way down to
your camp. If you are going to Zindighram Pass you have to cross the to the
east bank of the river and climb to the base camp on unusual paths of animals
and reach to your campsite 4200 m to stay the night close to the Zindighram Glacier.
There is amazing views that you have come up to backward, Chianter Glacier to
the right and Zindighram Glacier ahead you are going proceed the next day.
Hopefully, you will enjoy your night.
Day-13 Trek to Rawat
Over Zindighram Pass (4550 m): This is the hardest day your trek and will
give the experience of your adventure. 8 to 10 hours, you will soon get on the Zindighram
Glacier and climb up on white ice with ice springs on the glacier and ascending
to the pass in five hours the scenery of the glacier makes you forget
everything your life and if you are first time on such trip there is endless
joy walking on ice, snow and amazing views all around and hearing the whistles
of snow cocks from the nearer peaks. When you reach the pass you have magnificent
views of both sides to the Qurumbar Valley and Darkot valley. The difficult
walk of the day ends here; you are descending to Rawat on the glacier all way
down to the campsite with fields of barley and birch trees. You will be welcomed
by the friendly and hospitable people from Darkot here. You will come across a
sulpher boiling spring on the way close to Rawat and can have a hot shower in
it. Camp at 3700meters.
Day-14 Trek to Darkot and drive to
Gilgit: An easy walk of 2
hours on jeep roads to Darkot village giving a surprise to the people of your
arrival in the Village and the villagers will happy to see you and welcome
warmly. The Village is at 3300 meters.
Four hours drive to Gilgit from along the beautiful villages
of Yasin Valley, Gupis, and punial.
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