Hello everyone
I hope you all are doing fine. My hunt for snowfall in Pakistan is on its peak and i am not yet successful in that. I visited some points but couldn't find snowfall there though they were real cold. This time i brought you my tour towards chitral where we hadn't any special designation planned, we were instead focused more on exploring different points in short period of time. That's why we didn't explore any single point in detail but covered many points in Chitral.
Our journey started from Islamabad from where Chitral is around 800km away located in KPK district. It took us around 12 hours of travel time to reach our first point. Our journey in the coaster was full of adventures and fun, we played different games, had group dance performances and many other activities till we got tired. Now to get some refreshment we already reached the first point.
Even though the distance was large but the energy and activities of our group fellas really helped in neglecting the tiredness of travel.
Guess what was our first point, the scouts mess located in chitral. It's a very luxurious and beautiful hotel which is meant for the stay of soldiers as mentioned in the name. I know the question popping in your mind is how we managed to get in there, one of our group fella has connections in the military so we were allowed barely for some refreshment in there. Let's explore it's luxuries further.
Scouts mess is built on a large area of land and it is said that it's surroundings are really beautiful. Our bad that we reached there at night time so we couldn't witness that rumours with our own eyes. We could only see the beauty of hotel from inside. We were provided with some rooms to spend some time and after a while, we were called for mess. They were not allowing us photography openly but i was doing it anyway, lol.
I really enjoyed my time there and couldn't sleep at night, instead i explored its different parts at night time and tried to capture whatever i was able to in my camera. Also, i was free to eat anything from the mess, the biggest luxury of the hotel (i think).
Here i was focused more on night photography inside the refreshment point instead of getting some rest. I knew we had to depart early in the morning as we were allowed there for only a short period of time, barely that night. That's why i wanted to satisfy myself. No other fella came with me to explore it as they were all tired enough and wanted to get some rest till the morning. I also returned after a while as it started giving the vibe of some haunted place, lol.
Lol, our luggage was waiting for us outside when i woke up in the morning and came out. I knew it that we are not going to have any time exploring this place in the morning so i accepted the fate but my fellas were crying that we want to explore the hotel. But they weren't allowed so we departed to our next staying point where we were going to stay as well as explore the villages nearby.
Here we were at the public staying point named as INNJIGAN staying point. They had a minor availability of accommodation but thank god some families left the hotel at the same time so we got the enough space. We all were exhausted because no proper rest was taken at the previous point so we all slept a lot first. But i was not tired so i started exploring this point as well.
We had to go explore some nearby villages and points once everyone gets enough rest. I know, no one will put any attention towards this place beauty, instead they will be more focused on exploring the points nearby, but i am a hivian so i focus on every detail.
Oh wait, here i am Infront of a window. I couldn't get any time for mirror selfie so i preferred this window selfie, lol.
While i was capturing that window selfie, this puppy came towards me, i couldn't hold myself back from capturing him. I think he was coming for his picture, because when i captured him, he ran away. Lol
I believe that Chitral is beautiful not only from some points but as a whole it is heaven. I am the witness as i found every point more beautiful than before during my journey. Take example of these resting points, which are just for stay but they provide some extraordinary views even from inside. If you come here, believe me you don't even need to go outside because you can enjoy some beautiful nature scenery from here.
When i came back and i was finished with my photography, my fellas were ready to go outside. They were looking really energetic and enthusiastic to see some beautiful points outside but they don't know what i have experienced even from inside. We started our journey on foot and reached the nearby town in just 15 to 20 minutes.
One bad experience in our whole journey was that when i tried to capture image of some locals out there they became angry and tried to snatch our cameras but we managed to escape the situation somehow. We became careful after that and captured that beautiful cat instead of capturing some local. That group standing is my own fellas who climbed some roof to get some views of the area.
We then proceeded on coaster further as other points were said to be far so we will be exhausted if we walk by feet.
During our journey, i had this perfect angle of a whole village. I had a feeling that this much beautiful looking place must have its own name too. I asked one of my native friend who belonged to chitral, he told me that it was ayun village and the people there are too strict and aren't tourists friendly. I was preparing my mind to make a visit there which got cancelled after hearing that thing from him.
We explored many points after that including the main known as KALASH valley. The kalash valley is famous for the beautiful people there but as the natives were strict about their girls so we were also careful about photography there too. This was a disturbing aspect of this whole tour which limited us from storing memories in our gallery but atleast we stored them in our mind.
We visited some more places including a chasma and the interesting thing about that chasma we found was its hot water. The whole area was cold but i don't know the reason as when i touched that water i was thinking of my hand getting cold but it felt warm instead. That thing was really mind blowing for many of our fellas, i asked my friend about it and he asked me he doesn't know much about it. We all laughed on him as he was a native and didn't know about it. Lol.
After that we returned to our point from where we had to head back the next morning. I hope you people will enjoy reading this overview, i also enjoyed writing it. Haha.
Well, that's all from my side.
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I only read in books about the beauty of Chitral velly but your pictures are the proof of it's beauty. Someday I'll also visit there if life gave me a chance 😜
It's really worth it to explore these areas of Pakistan. If you ever get a chance to visit any area, choose Chitral.
Chitral is such a beautiful and rare region in Pakistan and you are so lucky that you visited that place. Have safe journey freind
Thank you
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Hey, thank you for the pin. You guys are great 😃
Hey @ahmedhayat you are welcome.
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