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Dear friend I have intention to visit above mention areas in next week, I will be traveling with my wife, three kids (aged 7years daughter,4years boy,6month old boy),mother and brother, I will use my Honda city 2010 for whole trip except for jeep trek
my itinerary is as follow
Day 1: Islamabad to besham/barseen (depend on time as I don?t want to drive more than
8 hours though we are two drivers) , stay in besham PTDC motel, Rent max 4000
Day 2: besham/barseen to Raikot/chilas , stay in shangrilla if price not sky high other
Wise any good hotel in Raikot (please suggest any good family hotel ) I put max
Figure of 6000 for shangrila
Day 3: chilas/raikot to Rama PTDC ,visit rama lake, I kept max 4000 for hotel rent, if
lucky enough to get room in ptdc, other wise kamran hotel in astore (pls suggest
any other good hotel there)
Day 4: visit to deosai/ shozar lake
Day 5: Rama to Fairy Meadow, stay there for one or two days, depend on the exhaustion
Day 7: Fairy meadow to Barseen or Besham ptdc, stay one night
Day 8: back to Islamabad.
Now my queries are
a) can my mother and kids reach upto fairy meadow, as I heard there is three hours trek
after tatu, is it doable for them
b) if we leave Raikot after launch for besham, for return journey, it will be evening or
night, so is it safe to travel at that time, I will try to leave raikot early in the morning
but it doesn?t seem possible ,as my mother and kids will be with me and then three
hour trekking
c)can we reach rama and shozar lake by jeep or it is jeep+ trekking , if jeep+trekking
then how many hours trekking
d)is there any good hotel in raikot and fairy meadow, I am more concern for hotel
at fairy meadow because of children
e)as we all know Honda city has low ground clearance, and road from besham to raikot
is not in good in shape, so with 4 adult+3kid and luggage, do you think I can avoid
car touching from bottom if I drive carefully.
I know in some places I am staying unnecessarily, which could be avoided specially when there are two drivers, but I don?t think that kids can go so long.
Last year I was the only driver and visited naran/kaghan valley almost in same season, in same car but at that time my mother and brother was not with me.
Please advise me if this is ok or I need to change something
Will really appreciate if travel guru also comment on my plan.