Rush Lake Trekking

Karakorams means "crumbling rock" in Turkish. A real f_mountain.jpg (27255 bytes)description for the gaint grey slag heaps capped with snow and tower above the narrow valleys between them. 12 out of the world's 30 highest mountains are in the Karakoram range. The Karakoram highway 1284 kilometers long the real eighth wonder was a joint sino - Pakistani project completed in 1978. It took 20 years to build when 81 0 Pakistanis and 82 Chinese laid their lives forcing a road through what has reasonable claim to be world most difficult and unstable terrain. This road runs almost through the middle of collision between Indian plate and Asiatic plate where there an average of one tremor every three minutes . The Khunjrab Pass is the highest metalled border crossing on a surface road in the world (4733m)Page Under Construction 

ITINERARY:

Day - 1: Arrival Islamabad and transfer to Hotel.
Day - 2: Drive to Chillas in coach and visit 5000 years old rock inscriptions.
Day - 3: Drive to Hunza and do Chinese stuff shopping in Gilgit.
Day- 4: Drive to Hopper by Jeep.
Day - 5 To Day - 11: Trek through Bualtar and Barpu Glaciers, flowers strewn ablation, valleys and. High allitude grazing grounds to Rush Lake a superb mountain view of surrounding peaks of Karakoram. (Max Alt 13,776 feet)
Day - 12: Drive to Hunza. Over night in Hotel
Day - 13: Visit Khunjerab Pass. The highest paved border in the world between Pakistan and China.
Day - 14: Drive to Besham over night in Hotel.
Day - 15: Drive to Islamabad.
Day - 16: Departure / to Delhi via Lahore.

TREKKINGR
GRADE	MODERATE
LAND COST	US $ 624 PP
DURATION	16 Days
SEASON	MAY - OCT
GROUP SIZE	4 & ABOVE

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