Summary of Day-1 28-June 2013 Friday
Track to Jahaz Banda & night Stay @ Jahaz Banda Rest house in camps.
We reached Upper Dir @ 05:30 am after unloading our luggage first of all searched for Nashta but unfortunately most hotels were still closed & rest don't have standard food so we decided to move forward to find some good place on the way to Kumrat.
So jeep hired on rental basis with our own fuel & started our journey for Jandrai Village @ 07: 00 am. @ 08:30 am we stopped at Sheringal for Nashta. Sheringal is one of the main town of Kumrat valley.
After Nashta we started our jouney again & reached Jandrai Village @ 12:00 pm, Major town we passed were Sheringal ->Brekot->Biar->Patrak->Kalkot->Darwaza-La Moti ->Jandrai.
For Jahaz Banda you have to left main Kumrat road from Darwaza & enter in Lamoti Villege than ascend to Jandrai Village, Jeeps will offload you at Jandrai than you have to track till Jahaz Banda.
Upon reaching Jandrai we visited Local Museum owned by Raja Taj Muhammad(main key person of Jahaz banda track & owner of Jahaz banda Rest House).
After arranging porters we started our track @ 01:30 pm, it was drizzling when we started our track but we decide to move on.
when we tracked just 1 km heavy rain started so we stopped under the shaddows of trees. Rain stopped after some time but stopped us many time on the track
Stopped for Lunch @ 04:20 pm & Reached jaz Banda Top @ 06:45 and Jaz Banda rest House @ 07:15 am