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images of Pakistan 4 - Northern Areas II: along the Karakoram Highway / KKH

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Baluchistan	Punjab	Northern Areas		NW Frontier	Islamabad	Sindh

	Hunza Valley - Northern Areas: following the Hunza River - Karakoram Highway - N35 - KKH - Hunza tour			Hunza Valley - Northern Areas: mountains along the Hunza River - Karakoram Highway - N35 - KKH - Hunza tour
	Hunza Valley - Northern Areas: agriculture in the scarce fertile land surrounded by mountains - Karakoram Highway			Nilt, Gilgit District - Northern Areas: view of the Rakaposhi Peak - 7,788 metres - Karakoram mountain range - Nagar Valley
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: riding is better than walking - crowded Chinese made pick-up truck - Hunza Valley - KKH			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: Rakaposhi peak and Baltit fort - Hunza Valley - KKH
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: Baltit fort, once used by the Mirs of Hunza - now a museum run by the Baltit Heritage Trust - Hunza Valley - KKH			Altit village, Karimabad - Hunza valley: Altit fort - once the residence of the Mirs of Hunza, an independent princely state for a thousand years
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: Baltit fort - kitchen utensils in the museum - Hunza Valley			Karimabad / Baltit: little girl running
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: Baltit fort - roof pavillion - Hunza Valley			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: the village and the Hunza Valley seen from Baltit fort - KKH
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: Ultar Sar peak, Batura Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range - seen from Baltit fort - KKH			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: window over the village and the Hunza Valley - Baltit fort - KKH
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: the village seen from Baltit fort - traditional settlement structure with terraced houses - KKH			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas: the village and Baltit fort under the Karakoram mountains - KKH
	Karimabad / Altit - Northern Areas: traditional architecture - Karimabad is named after Prince Karim Agha Khan, head of the Shia Ismaili Nizari sect			Altit village, Karimabad - Hunza valley, Northern Areas: Altit fort under renovation
	Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas / FANA: peaks in the Karakoram mountain range			Diram peak - Northern Areas / FANA: 7266 m - Karakoram mountain range - KKH
	Duikar hamlet, Altit - Northern Areas: eagle at Eagles' Nest hotel			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas / FANA: Lady Finger (6000m) and Ultar Sar peak (7233n) at sunrise - Batura Muztagh, Karakoram range
	Duikar hamlet, Altit - Northern Areas: view to Sleeping Beauty from Eagles' Nest hotel - Hunza valley			Duikar hamlet, Altit - Northern Areas: trees and the Hunza valley
	Duikar hamlet, Altit - Northern Areas: sunset in the Karakoram mountains			Karimabad / Baltit - Northern Areas / FANA: the village and the Hubza canyon
	Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: Chinese bus brings doing the Hunza tour - KKH			Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: sign with road distances into Pakistan - KKH
	Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas / FANA - Pakistan-administered Kashmir: sign in Urdu and English - border between Pakistan and China - Xinjian Uighur Autonomous Region - KKH			Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: old Silk Road trail - gorge with with small bridge - KKH
	Passu - Upper Hunza / Gojal region: rickety suspension bridge over the Khunjrab river			Passu, Gojal tehsil, Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: the Cathedral Ridge - Karakoram Highway - KKH
	Gilgit district - Northern Areas: bridge over the Hunza river - Karakoram Highway - N35 - KKH			Gilgit - Northern Areas: petroglyphs along the KKH - ancient rock carvings - feretory / stupa and Buddhist figures
	Gilgit: Kashmiri groom ready for the wedding			Gilgit: an ancient tomb surrounded by corn fields
	Gilgit: "Churchill" fort - explored by a young Winston Churchill when he was recuperating from a gunshot wound			Gilgit: armed jeep - Pakistani military
	Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: plateau at 4900 m and the mountains of Kashmir - highest section of the Karakoram Highway leading to China - inspiration for the mythical valley of Shangri-la			Gilgit district - Northern Areas: the Gilgit river joins the Indus river - junction point - Karakoram Highway
	Gulmit, Gojal tehsil, Khunjerab Pass, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: snowy mountain peaks - Khunjerab National Park - KKH			Sust / Sost, Gojal tehsil, Hunza valley, Northern Areas: loading potatoes near the Asia Star hotel - KKH

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Baluchistan	Punjab	Northern Areas		NW Frontier	Islamabad	Sindh

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