5 Friends, a Car and a thousand Selfies: Story of An Epic Road Trip

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Motorway selfie

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Got the fuel tank filled at PSO thokar for PKR 3000.
We Stopped at Bhera service area for a little refreshments. and continued towards abbottabad. Went through some serious checking at haripur chowki, the policemen even smelled our wallets, but when they found nothing they took our all favourite 'nutro' wafers ka packet.
kisi wafer ko kho denay pay kabhi itna dukh nahi hua jitna uss din hua tha.
Offered Fajr at Abbottabad.
And when we were crossing mansehra, this is what we witnessed.
Magical moments
ASC_4363 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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Good morning Mansehra
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Tea stop at mid mount malang zada hotel
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Refuelled from Balakot for 2700 at Rs 76 per Ltr.
And the journey continues...
Hyper lapse from mobile at balakot naran road
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/142652454" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/142652454">Balakot Naran Road</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user28416321">Usman Shafqat</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

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We reached Naran at 10am. Naran which was not looking appealing at all at the start of autumn, naran which was all deserted, naran which was all dirty (thanks to our tourists).
So as soon as we reached Naran, i called @xoofi dada, who was on his way back from a successful project K2K (Karachi to Khunjerab) on bike. So we had a short GTG in naran.
Our initial plan was to spend the night at naran. but as we were still feeling fresh and we had the whole day ahead of us, after consulting with sufian we decided to go to hunza directly. lhr to hunza in one leg.

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@xoofi about to leave for Pindi with his KTG members.
It was pleasant meeting up with him in the mountains.
After having breakfast in naran, we left towards babusar at 11:45am

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Its gona be awesome thread, how much did u pay to Eagle Nest for night stay ?

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Post breakfast selfie.
Naran

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Its gona be awesome thread, how much did u pay to Eagle Nest for night stay ?

Thankyou Shahbaz bhai.
bara rola daalnay k baad 3000 per room hua tha. 2 rooms liye thay.

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Turned on the fast and furious mode and reached lulusar at 1pm.
ASC_4382 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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Selfiiiieeeee
I'm sorry there are going to be alot of these in this thread
ASC_4401 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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Towards Babusar Top.
there's just a small portion of the road before the top which needs some attention, except that, it's a carpeted road throughout.
DSC_6307 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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Babusar top, 2PM.
ASC_4423 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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ASC_4430 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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Perfect Blue Skies
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ASC_4440 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

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selfiiieeee
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The descend towards Chilas side.
It's a very steep and long descend. Though we mostly used engine braking and avoided using the brakes more often then not. by the time we reached down our brake discs were emitting quite alot of heat and burning smell.
DSC_6325 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr

DSC_6332 by Usman Shafqat, on Flickr