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zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 09:47:32 +0500 #41

this is not ratti gali lake ...............

asifcae (asifcae) 2012-07-09 09:53:46 +0500 #42

yar ratti gali lake kay as pass itni bari koi aur lake nai ati as far as i know....

do u have sum details of this lake????

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 09:59:01 +0500 #43

AS PER JAWAD GAKHAR
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zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 15:03:52 +0500 #44

Weather was very pleasant in Sharda at night. We took the tea in the lawn of Rest house and gup shup was on till 11:00 PM.
then we decided to go to room for sleep but was slept @ about 1:00AM
I was the 1st to awake in the morning and I decided to go out from room for morning walk although it was about 6 AM and to take some pictures.
Here are some pics.............

asifcae (asifcae) 2012-07-09 15:13:23 +0500 #45

thankx ....

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 15:21:01 +0500 #46

few more .............

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 15:46:15 +0500 #47

More............

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 16:10:36 +0500 #48

more.................

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 16:17:51 +0500 #49

This is the place where we enjoyed the tea in pleasant weather with gup shup last night.

Shahzad727 (Shahzad727) 2012-07-09 16:26:37 +0500 #50

great tour.weldone

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 16:30:40 +0500 #51

Few last shots of Sharda................

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 16:34:57 +0500 #52

Thanks
more pics are in Q............

aesiege (aesiege) 2012-07-09 16:37:23 +0500 #53

Very beautiful pics Mashallah

aesiege (aesiege) 2012-07-09 16:47:51 +0500 #54

On another note ...... Patlian Lake was included in my trip and was supposed to be the surprise of the tour but seems like the secret is already out

Here are the details:

There is a town between Keran and Dowarian called Lawat.

From Lawat, a jeep trek goes to Lawat Bala (Upper Lawat). I am not sure whether this jeep trek is reachable these days or not.

The jeep trek goes ahead of Lawat Bala into the valley leading to Patlian Lake.

After some distance, jeep trek ends.

Then it is a trek of 10 km till the lake.

Now there are 2 greater or bigger trek routes of which Patlian Lake can be a part of.

1- Lawat - Lawat Bala - Patlian Lake - A 14000 ft pass to cross into a side valley of Ratti Gali - Reach main Ratti Gali valley - Ratti Gali Lake - Back to Dowarian

2- Upper Neelum - Enter the valley and start trek in jungle to cross over mountain to Lawat Bala - Then continue above route.

Here is the map

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 17:13:01 +0500 #55

Last night, it was decided that we will try to book the room for 1 more day and will go ahead toward Kel & Taobutt, for this purpose we already asked the jeep driver, but not confirmed with driver.
When, this morning I got up and found little heavy clouds around then I decided to go back as I did not want to take risk to cross the big Nullah after rain as water level would increase after rain.
After taking the tire from shop and b.fast we started return journey and when we reached at Nullah we found that the water level is little low as it is still start of day, but worried to see that 1 Mehran was struck in the center of the Nullah and jeep is trying to pull the car out of this nullah. They did not have toeing wire/chain and trying to pull the car with a nylon wire, but car was deeply struck and whenever jeep try to pull the car, wire broke and all in vain. We had toeing chain and offered the same to them and car was pulled out from the nullah. As we was also stopped in the center of the nullah and a passing by L.C offered us pulling but we decided to cross the nullah without any pull/push. Then we tried and did it, crossed the nullah by the blessing of Almighty Allah.
After crossing the nullah we stopped the car near the mehran and found that water was entered in the engine of the car and damaged the air filter of the car. They were already trying to dry the air filter and cleaning water etc from the engine bay. I thought that they are going to try to start the engine, so I stopped them to do so and asked them to check the engine oil, when the they did it, we all surprised to see that there was no engine oil but lassi (A)(mixture of mobil oil & water). We told them to completely drain the engine oil and put new oil before starting engine and they were agreed to do so. They kept chain with them and decided to pull the car till next stop so they can find any mechanic but locals told that mechanic will be only available at Sharda or Athmaqam. They were lucky enough that the were in group with 2 cars and 2 m/c. Some onc went to sharda for this purpose. We exchanged the cards with them and started again. We already decided that we will stay at Khawaja Sairy just few km before Sharda and will try to find any jeep from there and will go to Kel or Taobutt.
There is a samll hotel in Khawaja Sairy which we already saw yesterday and also had some discussion of the manager.

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 17:28:27 +0500 #56

Pictures are not so clear to give the idea of water level, but......................

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 17:36:56 +0500 #57

aesiege;3440875:

On another note ...... Patlian Lake was included in my trip and was supposed to be the surprise of the tour but seems like the secret is already out

Here are the details:

There is a town between Keran and Dowarian called Lawat.

From Lawat, a jeep trek goes to Lawat Bala (Upper Lawat). I am not sure whether this jeep trek is reachable these days or not.

The jeep trek goes ahead of Lawat Bala into the valley leading to Patlian Lake.

After some distance, jeep trek ends.

Then it is a trek of 10 km till the lake.

Now there are 2 greater or bigger trek routes of which Patlian Lake can be a part of.

1- Lawat - Lawat Bala - Patlian Lake - A 14000 ft pass to cross into a side valley of Ratti Gali - Reach main Ratti Gali valley - Ratti Gali Lake - Back to Dowarian

2- Upper Neelum - Enter the valley and start trek in jungle to cross over mountain to Lawat Bala - Then continue above route.

Here is the map

Thanks for the details/directions.
Location is the same which Jawad Gakhar mentioned.
It seems very hard trekking.
Best of luck!!!!!!!!!!!

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-09 17:40:22 +0500 #58

More beauty to come, as up we go in Neelam valley, the beauty multiply^^^^^^^^^^^^

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-10 16:01:36 +0500 #59

Some photo near big Nullah............

zahid135 (Zahid Latif) 2012-07-10 16:18:34 +0500 #60

After Reaching at Khawaja Sairy, we booked the room and parked our car there and got jeep for Kel.
When we were crossing again that big Nullah mechanic was there to check the mehran and we crossed the nullah and continued toward Kel.
After crossing Sharda, Nuri Nullah was infront of us.