An attempt to explore the Sharda, Taobat, Shounter and Areng Kel.

[emmaar]

Dear PW Friends, we did try to explore some areas of Neelum Valley in the last week of june,2012. Absence of one week from job hardly allows a hectic procedure of uploading a thread. It becomes more difficult in the case of 1^st attempt to post a thread and when already a number of good threads of same place were in progress too. But we are just posting this thread to show our compliments to our visited places with the aim to do better in next time.

Our itenary was
23^rd & 24^th of June:Started our journey from Faisalabad at 220 on 23^rd of June and reached Sharda(with some short stays in between) at 170 of next day. Night stay at Valley Trekers Rest House Sharda.
25^th of June: Visit Sharda University, Trek to Maidaan Village/Kishan Ghatti and then went to Kel by Rocket Bus. Reached at 13:30 there and after getting our lunch there went to Taobat by PT Jeep. Reached Taobat at 180. Visit Tuc Shop at Neelum and surroundings there. Night Stay at Al-Waheed Hotel.
26^Th of June: Early morning Trek to Upper Taobat Village(2.5 Hours) along with Gagai Nala and back side upper part of Taobat( a beautiful trek of 2 Hour goes upward and provides very wide/clear images of Taobat ). At 140, Went back to Kel and reached at 180. Stayed at Neelum Guest house.
27^th of June: Went for Shounter and visited Upper Domail, Shounter, Shounter Lake. Come back to Kel till 170.
28^th of June: Visited the Trek of Arang Kel (Ascending 2.5 hours + Descending1.5 Hours). Stayed there about one hour and then returned to follow the back way route.

Our ride was Cultus and we were three members on this tour
Mr Azam Khan
Mr Rashid(Me)
Mr Safeer

Objective of the tour: Main objective of the tour was to see and compliment our beloved Pakistan. Beside this we want to try some simple treks(about 2—4 hours round) to check our stamina before putting ourselves into some longer/a bit difficult treks. We felt that we aren’t so bad/old to do this.
Lets look into our journey and be generous to point out /correct the mistakes which we did/will do in our actual/virtual tour.

Regards
Rashid

First Glimpse of Sharda

Upper Taobat

Taobat

Hari Parbat in Shounter Lake

One and the only one The Areng Kel

[hassangr8]

Superb views sir....

Keep them coming.......

[emmaar]

Superb views sir....

Keep them coming.......

Thanks Brother.
Will continue shortly!

[msafeer]

I thought you will be posting a huge, 7 pages, thread all the way. waiting for more snaps ..

[emmaar]

We started from FSD at 220, Short stay at Bhaira for tea and reached ISD at 02:30. Continue our journey afterwards

Tea Break at Bhaira. Azam & Me


Safeer Seems a bit lazy due to last two days of drive, drive and drive


Towards Muzaffarabad, some early morning shots

[faisal_here]

very good thread, waiting for pics

[msafeer]

Looking for more details

[asifcae]

nice explore my friend. more pics plz

wht is kishan ghatti????

[tariqzaidi]

Very good going....

[emmaar]

@ Faisal_here, msafeer, asifcae, tariqzaidi Thanks brothers for liking.

[emmaar]

nice explore my friend. more pics plz

wht is kishan ghatti????

Thanks Asif bhai!
Kishan ghatti is a village adjacent to Maidaan village. Kishan Ghatti is at somewhat lower place than Maidaan which is at high altitude. Starting from same trek to both villages, which divided into two after some distance. It is called there is a Hindo Temple after a steep climbing. we tried a lot but couldn't reach there. Besides we have some doubt in our guide's caliber so cancell to reach upon it.

[emmaar]

Reahed Kohala early in the morning


Instead of crossing the Kohala for MFD, moved straight forward to cross river from next bridge. It is called that road is in very poor condition due to sliding.


And that was the sliding who forced us to follow alternate route.



Some pictures to show the road conditions


Another one

[asadsethi]

nice pics, i was in neelum valley almost same dates, will share pics soon in a new thread, now loving ur photos

[aesiege]

Excellent trip bro !!!

You have covered 3 'not so common' destinations and i am anxiously waiting for the pics

[gemini85]

Super Shots.Another valuable addition in Neelum Valley Threads on PW

[asifcae]

Thanks Asif bhai!
Kishan ghatti is a village adjacent to Maidaan village. Kishan Ghatti is at somewhat lower place than Maidaan which is at high altitude. Starting from same trek to both villages, which divided into two after some distance. It is called there is a Hindo Temple after a steep climbing. we tried a lot but couldn't reach there. Besides we have some doubt in our guide's caliber so cancell to reach upon it.

thankx for the info yar

[nomi700]

Nice trip. Keep the pics rolling

[Shahzad727]

this year threads to kashmir sides are more than threads to naran side.in previous years mostly tours were for naran saide but this year wise versa.gud attitude.

keep it up

[engrshiraz]

very nice pics, keep them coming, dying to see the heaven which i also planned to go

[mudasernaeem]

KAshmirRr...............
Kb dekho ga tuj ko




Cool pics and thread..............