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18 Hours OVERNIGHT to NORTHERN PAKISTAN
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Apr 14, 2025
after the airline lost my luggage, I decided to drive to Northern Pakistan! the journey was initially supposed to take 12 hours, but we hit a few delays along the way but I was so happy to be back in this beautiful part of the world Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsjaypalfrey my favourite travel company in Pakistan: https://www.facebook.com/apnatrip.pk/ the amazing hotel I stayed at: Darbar Hotel - https://www.facebook.com/HunzaDarbarHotel/ #pakistan #travel #travelvlog
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Okay, good morning everybody from beautiful Islamabad. It's currently 3 a.m. here in the city
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and I'm just about to begin a 12-hour road trip towards the north of Pakistan
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I'm heading towards Hunza Valley, which is one of my favourite spots in the whole country
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I can't wait, so let's jump in the car and head on this pretty long overnight journey
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towards this beautiful part of this beautiful country. Thank you, bro. Thank you
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Okay so we just stopped at a service station to get some gas and this is the typical scenes
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here in Pakistan on the road to Hunza. Truck full of cows
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Thank you
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Okay good morning everybody it's currently 7am and I've just made it to a small town called Besham
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Assalamu alaikum. Wa alaikum salam. And we're going to stop and eat some breakfast and drink some chai
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I'm really tired. I'm looking about 80 years old with these under eye bags
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But I'm really excited to get to the mountains. As you can see the landscape is just starting to develop
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We have a beautiful river surrounded by beautiful foothills. The closer we go to the mountains the bigger the mountains we'll get
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And I can't wait. Assalamu alaikum. Okay guys, we're about nine hours into the road trip
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It's roughly about 12.30 now. And I've just stopped at a small town called Suma to grab some chai
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Everyone is so kind here. It's so friendly, as always, here in Pakistan. Okay, so one thing you'll probably experience on this road towards Gilgit is a lot of delays
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Right now they're fixing the dam and we've been stuck here for about an hour, but hopefully
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it'll be cleared soon. This road is so beautiful, so the landscapes kind of make up for it
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I'm hopefully going to get to Hunza, inshallah, very soon. I'm really, really tired
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Salaam. Let aside. You want to go. Oh, we go? Yes. Shukriya
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Okay guys we were stuck at the dam for 3 hours so we only just arriving in gilgit in about 30 minutes it currently about 6 30 or 7 but as you can see the sun is setting around these
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beautiful peaks and behind me is nangar palbud and hopefully in a few days inshallah we'll head
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to the base camp i'm so happy to be back so let's continue the road trip to gilgit and then it's a
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further three hours to Karimabad. I can't wait to sleep. Inshallah. It happens soon
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Okay, everybody, I've just arrived here in Hunza after a very, very long drive. I've
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just arrived at my favourite hotel in the area, Darba. I'll give you a full tour tomorrow
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but this is possibly the best welcome you can have into a hotel. Traditional dancing
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and music. Take a look at this. Thank you
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Good morning everybody from beautiful Karimabad here in Hunza Valley
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I arrived pretty late last night it took about 18 hours and 19 hours to drive here usually it takes
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about 15 but I had a few delays on the way they have a lot of roadworks building a dam in one of
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the main parts of the road so that took about three hours just to get past there but I'm very
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happy to wake up to such incredible views as you can see the huge peaks around me behind me here
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is another huge peak and this one here is Rakiposhi I've never actually seen the peak of Rakiposhi
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because although I've come to Hunza twice, this is my first time during spring
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So usually the peaks are covered in huge clouds and snowfall, but I've also come at a very special time
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Right now is peak cherry blossom season, so the entire valley is covered in a beautiful pink blossom
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and it's pretty spectacular. I can't wait to spend the next few days exploring this beautiful area
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It's actually one of my favourites in the whole of Pakistan. I've never really felt so much peace until I come here
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So yeah, I'm very excited to be here. Okay, so first stop here on the road trip across Hunza is Attabad Lake
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Back in 2010, there was a huge landslide which cut off the village
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There was a river running through and as that landslide came down, it blocked it, creating this huge lake
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actually flooding the village and cutting off 25,000 people from pretty much the world
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So for five years up until 2015, they actually had to just use boats to cross the lake
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That included cars, food, cattle, sheep, everything in between. So for five years, it was a pretty tough life
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But now, as you can see, it's a very, very popular tourist destination. I actually never seen it in the spring and it great to see There are so many local tourists here taking boats across the beautiful lake Last time I was here it was in February 2020 so the lake was actually frozen And I actually went swimming inside which was amazing
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But yeah, it's gorgeous to see it on a day like this. Actually pretty warm, tourists here
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It's great to see places like this thriving. I love it a lot
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so the second spot we're heading to today is Husseini Suspension Bridge which
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is this incredible suspension bridge which crosses the entire valley across the river and you can see incredible views of Passu take a look at this
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okay so i'm walking across now you can see the river just below me there are a lot of people
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on this bridge all local tourists here in pakistan so it's making the bridge really wobbly
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but the views are just incredible you can see the pasu cones behind me and the pasu valley
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wow pakistan just blows me away every time i come back here and the views are amazing every time i've
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come to Hunza before it's been snowing so I haven't got the chance to see Pasu so clear and the river so
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amazing and clear and blue so yeah it's pretty beautiful let's try and see if we can get to the
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other side these crazy people not even using them really
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Salaam You have pakora? Yeah One pakora Okay So clear Okay so one year ago when I came here
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For the second time I spotted this pakora restaurant And I'm going to get some just for memories
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They were some of the best pakoras I've ever tasted And the women inside are so friendly and so nice
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So let's get some pakoras and enjoy this incredible view Okay so here are the beautiful crunchy pakoras
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here at Husseini Bridge it comes with this really spicy dip, it's delicious
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hear that crunch it's just amazing I love it here so much
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if you guys are coming to Husseini make sure to get the pakoras from
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the little huts by the bridge they're amazing So just at Husseini Suspension Bridge
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there were some stores that sells the gilgit hat i just pick one up um my other hat is still in my
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baggage which they still haven't found so what do you think i think it would look great with my
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black shower kameez i love it welcome everybody to beautiful pasu this is pasu valley just here Behind me is the incredible Pasu Glacier Just picked up this amazing hat I love it a lot The journey here is just spectacular
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The mountains covered in snow with the clouds rolling over. It's nothing short of phenomenal
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Some of the best landscapes I've ever seen in my entire life. So let's keep going to Pasu Cones
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so okay so i finally made it back to beautiful pasu these behind me are the pasu cones
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iconically named for their incredible structure here is just beautiful you can find so many tourists
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here because it's so easily accessible and you can see the beautiful sweeping landscapes covered
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in snow today is such a beautiful day so it makes it so easy to make incredible photos here
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you can see how many tourists are here wow i love it here so so much
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So up here in northern Pakistan yak meat is very very famous and it is delicious
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So I've just come to yak grill here in Pasu and we're going to grab some yak burgers to
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eat and enjoy with this incredible view. two yak burgers
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okay so guys we have the yak burger here i have memories of this being
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incredible so let's see how good it still is it's still amazing and with views like this it's the perfect stop here in pasuk
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so this is my hotel here in Hunza Valley I'm staying at Darpa Hotel I will put the links
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down in the description box you guys have to stay here if you're coming to Hunza I love it so much
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so I have an amazing double bed here and then you come here to a desk
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an amazing sitting area just here and look at this view an entire three windows full of the incredible mountain views
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but that's not it let's head to the rooftop and check out the incredible view from up there and
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this my friends is the incredible rooftop here at the hotel huge panoramic views of all of the
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mountains the Sun is just setting now huge beautiful peaks with the cherry
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blossom and just over here is Rakoposhi. I love it here so much. This is Rakoposhi
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just behind me. Just here you can see the Sun just setting amazing views
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Thank you
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Thank you
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