Trek to Spin Khwar Lake and Izmis Lake. June 2014

Road Trips / Vacations / Hiking / Trekking

2014

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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:46:05 +0500 #181

We can see the sunshne quite sparkling here but only Allah's Knows that we will be caught into a severe rain after a few minutes
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:46:37 +0500 #182

Trekkers at the trek
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:50:06 +0500 #183

Into the dense forest
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:51:57 +0500 #184

jeep trek but we have to covered it by foot
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:54:13 +0500 #185

A small chit chat of rain drop started then
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:56:03 +0500 #186

and light went to a significant decrease
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 10:59:42 +0500 #187

We stopped under a big tree for a while and then started to enjoy this rain fall over us
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:00:48 +0500 #188

Intensity going to increase so, again wait under a tree and wear on the parkas and rain coat there
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:01:25 +0500 #189

fellow did the same and approached to us for a while
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:03:12 +0500 #190

Soon after reached into a small settlement, where a couple of peoples were cultivating in their slops of feilds
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:04:34 +0500 #191

Ghanni and Sajjad was also in a state of rest there
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:05:26 +0500 #192

Weather was again going into our favor
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:07:13 +0500 #193

A motor bike here. After a friendly chit chat with the bikers the one of our porter(sajjad) sat with him and "Ye ja, Wo ja"
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:10:28 +0500 #194

A tree tunnel
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:11:34 +0500 #195

On our opposite side of rive we can see the start point of Battal Village... he main village on the whole trek
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:12:42 +0500 #196

Our trek and opposite side of the trek
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:13:23 +0500 #197

A short descend and we are about o reach at the level of the stream ahead
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:16:03 +0500 #198

A short transit stay here. Time check was 12:00 Noon. it means we have about 3:15 hours of today's trekking
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:17:28 +0500 #199

Filling our water bottles here. Trek goes to Battal village after crossing this Stream via log bridges
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emmaar (emmaar) 2014-07-06 11:18:19 +0500 #200

Here are two adjacent bridges for Battal village
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