Trip Details
Day Wise Breakdown:
Day 1 : Traveeled Lahore to Islamabad and took 6PM Natco bus towards Gilgit (Fare- 2000Rs) . Reached Gilgit next day at 2PM after 20 hr travel and on same day reached Karimabad Hunza, which is one and half hour ride from Gilgit.
Day 2: Visited Baltit Fort which is in Karimabad (Ticket 200 per person, 100 more if you want to take pictures from inside) . After that we walked to Altit village where ALTIT FORT is located , it took us 1 hour to reach there on foot, but you will enjoy beautiful scenes and a lot for photography.
Day 3: We were planning for Atta abad Lake only but later we decided to see SOST village. From Karima bad we hired a car for 1500 to reach one side of lake which was once Atta bad village. You can also get local transport to Atta bad lake form Ali Abad which is only 100 per person we were in hurry so we hired a car.
After reaching lake, we found number of local motor boats to cross lake with charges of 100 per person, as we were going for Sost we took local boat with other passengers going to Gulmit village on other side, If you want to see lake just , you can hire motor boat for 2000 to 3000.
Lake is almost 20 kilometer long according to locals and on motor boat it took us 45 minutes to cross lake, it was really wonderful experience as you will see sky high mountains alongside the lake.
From other side of lake you will find local vans towards Sost village which is last village before Khunjrab pass, van passes through gulmit, passu villages , in passu you can see passu glacier. From lake to Sost village it will take 2 hours.
We reached Sost at 1PM and then had some tea and hired a car for 5000Rs to see Khunjrab pass and back to sost village and it was total 4 hour journey on both sides combined.
We stayed that night in sost as we were unable to get local vans till gulmit to cross lake after 5pm.
Day 4: Back to karimabad and stayed there whole day, was a kind of rest day. Only visited apple tree gardens in karima bad city.
Day 5: Back to Rawalpindi, took Natco bus from Ali abad Hunza at 10AM and reach pindi next day morning at 7am and then to lahore.