Loh Dandi or Dungale Top, a trek route from Muzaffarabad to Balakot

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Yellow path is for ascend and red is for descend
A real hard work by Faraz

The location of the place in respect to near by cities

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We took neelum Road after Muzaffarabad. At Kahori we left the neelum road for Sarian
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Kahori bridge is in background after getting some height
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A nala is coming from our left and most of the time we will travel beside the nala
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Here we stopped our vehicle to take some shots of the valley to understand the location at the start of the road. Road is paved here. The picture in previous post of Kahori bridge also taken at the same point
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Just at the diversion start we forecasted(H) the greenery of the area
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And it is increasing in magnitude on every next moment
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Stopped in Dhora to get some info about the route/road
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We discussed that our option from Kashmir seems better for this trek....green green even before the season
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Here we come to Battal/bashash area. here we came to know that we have to rent out a jeep for next journey. however we decided to take one from the main adda which is a bit ahead of this point
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Here is the main Battal village. Here is a junction of two roads
1- the roads turn right goes to Rjpayan from where trekker do Makra top from Kashmir side
The road goes straight forward is for Sarian and it was our route of the day
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We hired this jeep for to and fro for Srian. We also arranged some eatable here like chicken for our night kitchen
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Outskirt of Battal towards Sarian Dana
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and the road/bridge in the view is for Rajpayan
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A couple of streams on our way
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A couple of views of Rajpayan road which is zig zagging from a distance
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inside out of the travel place
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Jeep road is under construction. The road till shogran(2800m) might be completed in running season . A few shots to estimate the current road condition
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Passengers into the jeep
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Here comes the view of Makra from Kashmir side...Mukhra of Makra
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Let's do a ride till Makra
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About 10:30 we reached Dana Sarian which is about 2050m high. Our jeep brought us to this point after covring about 1000vertical meters.
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The Makra view from the village
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It is just the start of the village of Dana Sarian
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