Gilgit Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Back at 'home' we just enjoyed our time there, spending more time with M, K and alsoMS. I had more shopping days with V, the boys played football in the park (women aren't allowed to play sports in public), we met lots of people for chai, I started wearing a salwar-kameez more often because the weather was getting warmer and it felt good to dres...

We came back 'home' to Gilgit and really felt like we were getting to know the place - we had our favorite places to eat - the Tajistikan Inn that made great food that wasn't too greasy, and omlettes to order, and a little pakora place that always made fresh ones for us and gave us a little extra. We started to get to know the people too, and th...

If you're vertiginously challenged, suffer breathlesness, have a dicky ticker or wobbly knees, stay the hell away from northern Pakistan - or stick to turboprops and runways. This is hard mountain country, a never-ending horizon of agonisingly craggy peaks of rock, stone, ice and snow, and treacherous slopes of shale and scree. The western corne...

Thomas: We spent a short time in Pakistan but it deserves a full entry here, not only the few lines we throw in the last time. Entering overland from China means travelling the Karakorum highway, an adventure itself. Karakorum means 'crumbling rock' and the approx 700km of road from the border to the Chittar Plain north of Islamabad do not deser...

Gilgit was the last big town before Kashgar. Here I stayed at the Madina Guesthouse for two nights and one day before heading to Nanga Parbat in the Astore Valley. After six nights in the Astore Valley, I returned to Gilgit to finish Ramadan and to celebrate Eid, the festival following Ramadan. Before camping in Nanga Parbat, I needed to do some...

Abottabad is a genteel town containing many of Pakistan's most prestigious military and civil training/educational institutions. It is also much cooler than on the plains and I was grateful to be able to sleep without sweating. Took a mini-bus to Manshera one hour away and got to sit with the driver in the mini-bus as I was an unaccompanied fema...

In August of 1993 my wife Marjorie and I signed up for a mountain biking expedition in northern Pakistan. The trip would run along the Karakoram Highway mostly, from the Kunjarab Pass at the Chinese border, down through Hunza, and all the way to Gilgit. Our story appeared in the October 1994 issue of Mountain Bike Magazine. I also traveled throu...

After spending quite some time in mountainous areas with no access to Internet, TV or even electricity, it was nice to stay a few days at the delightful Madina Guesthouse, where I met very nice travellers and could exchange interesting stories about our adventures in Asia. Gilgit is nothing special and I dedicated most of my time to socializing ...

finally i reached naltar valley. surely it is extraordianary, so peacefull , so beautifull, Its some thing for which words are not yet created. It is exotic. we jeep up from gilgit up to lower naltar valley as jeep road ends and after that the trek starts, we three friends without taking any porter, and guide, just tie up ruksacks on our shoulde...

Giglit, now growing into a big city was always been a trade route between the lands of Pakistan and China. I along with my two friends stayed there at a friend's place, and after preperation for the trek we jeep up to naltar valley.