So that was it for the day we headed back to astore when we reached astore we purchased 5.5 KG chicken from local market had it cut into small pieces plan was we would marinate it over night and tomorrow would be having some bbq at Rama Lake so when we reached hotel chicken was first washed and cleaned and then it was marinated and refrigerated in hotels kitchen.
Next day we woke up early had breakfast around 7 am at local dhaba hotel hired a 5 door parado jeep (2500 for Rama Lake and 4000 for thirshing )we had some bad experience while going to deosai on jeep because of low space in that jeep five people plus driver on these roads becomes very hard to negotiate so we decided now on we would hire on 5 door jeep so that we are comfortable. plan for the day was we would go to Rama on jeep and from Rama we would trek towards Rama lake and jeep driver would come to lake on jeep with our bbq equipment and we would have bbq on Rama Lake and in the after noon we would head to thirshing and night stay would be at hotel in thirshing.
so we loaded every thing in jeep and headed to Rama but as we reached near Rama it started raining cats and dogs we had no option so it was decided that we would go to thirshing so we moved back from Rama Meadows and reached thirshing beautiful place. Their was a newly constructed camping site next to thirshing village we did not stop in thirshing village jeep took us to camp site.
the camp site
Nanga parbat was no where to be seen clouds all over
One thing i learned from people of gilgit biltistan is love for the country pakistan flag flying high at camp site
So after having some rest and having some tea at the camp site from a very humble and nice host Mr Iftikhar we decided to walk till Rupal village since our original plan was disturbed because of rain we had no other option to spend the day it was late for us to try for base camp (hilkofer) so we moved towards rupal village to explore the surroundings.
a view from camp site
Another view
Crossing the glacier