Truck on Gilgit Skardu Road

Truck on Gilgit Skardu Road

Gilgit-Skardu road is very important from the tourist and also strategic point of view.This road constructed by Pakistan Army Engineers with association of Chinese Engineers.The truck-able link between Gilgit and Skardu was completed in 1982. The distance between Gilgit and Skardu is 245 kms (approximately 5 hours on Jeep or Car). Gilgit and Baltistan are the two major tourism, trekking and expedition hubs in Pakistan. Journey by road is very interesting specially with the company of Indus river the longest river of Pakistan It flows from Tibet northwest across the Indian-controlled portion of Jammu and Kashmir, passing between the western extremity of the Himalayas and the northern extremity of the Hindu Kush mountain range; it then courses generally south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. Between Gilgit Skardu the Indus River due to its size of desolation and the non stop foaming fury of the Indus, the gorge from here south is simply awesome. You can view many beautiful villages and largest suspension bridges and valleys on this road.
Karrar Haidri
on Sep 8, 2009 6:19 am
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BigRob

BigRob - Sep 9, 2009 11:23 am - Voted 10/10

Nice

I love seeing pics of this area. I became interested in it after reading Three Cups of Tea.

Karrar Haidri

Karrar Haidri - Sep 9, 2009 1:16 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: Nice

You are most Welcome.Thanks for sharing your nice views.
Greg Mortenson is a Great Man who did a Great Job in the Karakoram region.
In 1993, to honor his sister’s memory, Mortenson climbed Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain in the Karakoram range.
After K2, while recovering in a local village called Korophon, Mortenson met a group of children sitting in the dirt writing with sticks in the sand, and made a promise to help them build a school.
From that rash promise, grew a remarkable humanitarian campaign, in which Mortenson has dedicated his life to promote education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote, volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
TIME Magazine has selected, ‘Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission To Fight Terrorism and Build Nations…One School At A Time.
Mortenson has dedicated his life to establish 58 schools in remote villages of the Karakoram, Pamir and Hindu Kush, which educate over 24,000 children.
‘Three Cups of Tea’, a New York Times best-seller in March 2006.

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