TRAVELOGUE COMPLETED!
We are a group of professionals (engineers) working in fertilizer sector in South Punjab but hailing from different cities of Pakistan. Like all the professionals, we too get tired and dead at work, and a break is a must-needed thing from all that politics, leg-pulling stuff and hard work. (A) In 2012, 9 of us traveled to Nanga parbat/Fairy Meadows/Babusar/Naran and had a lifetime experience and it was a worthwhile break from work. In 2013, our group couldn't dare for an ayyashi tour because most of us got married in fall 2012/spring 2013 so we confined ourselves to "work" only.
After a year's break, the courage came back this year and we decided for a bachelor trip to Chitral/Kalash and Kumrat (and i owe this decision to pakwheels forums otherwise i didn't even know if Kumrat Valley even existed). Our plan altered temporarily few days before start of tour due to Shandur Festival dates' announcement. But we couldn't attend the festival because we had to reshuffle our leaves (which we couldn't do) and time constraints. So we toured as per our original, yet slightly modified, plan (without Shandur, unfortunately).
Few advised us to skip our tour due to initiation of militarty operation but we remained adamant to be martyrs (H) so cancellation was simply out of question. So exciting was the start itself that few hours into the tour and we were crouching inside coaster seats due to a crossfire between terrorists and police which we survived by few seconds a then a bomb blast by 10 minutes :-#. Fortunately, remaining tour was a complete opposite to all the chaos we faced during first night. I will try to give as much detail (of above incident and everything else) as possible in my thread. Till then, major information is as follows;
Total Duration:
7 days (Isb to Isb)
Tour Dates:
21 June to 27 June 2014
Group Members:
Zaheer Abbas (Sargodha)Farhan Maqbool (Lahore)Najam Butt (Lahore)Junaid Shakeel (Hayderabad)Waqas Ahmed (Mansehra)Nadeem Shah (Multan)Salman Ramay (Bahawalpur) (Me)
Breakdown:
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[TD="align: center"]Day[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Activities[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Transport[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Fare[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Overnight In[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Rent[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Isb to Chitral[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Coaster[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]1200/head[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Chitral City[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Walk[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Pamir Riverside Inn[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3500 per double room[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Kalash (Bamboret)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jeep/Walk[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3500 (Jeep)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]PTDC Motel Bamboret[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]3200 per double room[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Kalash to Thal[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Hiace/Jeep[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]600/head(Hiace)
300/head(Jeep)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Shadow Resthouse (Thal)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Complimentary[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]5[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Kumrat/Jahaz Banda[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jeep/Trek[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]5000[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jahaz Banda Rest House[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Details in thread[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]6[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Katora Lake/Jandrai[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Trek[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jandrai Rest House[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Details in thread[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]7[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jandrai to Isb[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]Jeep/Taxi[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]4500(Jeep)
7000(Car)[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]-[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
Average cost per head:
PKR 14000/- (Isb to Isb including traveling, accomodation, food and everything)
Cameras Used:
Nikon D3200 with 18-55mm VRII & 50mm 1/1.8G lenses (Mine)
Sony Cybershot WX5 (Mine)
Sony Bridge Cam SX1 (Junaid)
Canon P&S (Waqas)
I thank @Shahbazzain, Sufian @Xoofi, @hassangr8, Hassan @Bruit and @asifcae from the bottom of my heart for all the support, tips, suggestions and advices. Thank you guys!!!