Travel Blog Photos from Chilas (124)
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![]() | Chilas, Pakistan |
After a brief sejour in Chilas, where I visited beautiful Petroglyphs on the banks of Indus river, I headed to the paradisiac Fairy Meadows. The Jeep ride was awesome: the road from Raikot Bridge to Jhel is built on the sides of very steep rocky mountains ...
A long, tiring day. We were on the road by 5.30am and didn't arrive into Chilal until 7pm. The first 100km took five and a half hours because the road was so bad. After lunch we joined the Karakoram highway. The KKH travels up the narrow gorge created ...
... . Surely, I reasoned, if this road was unsafe, he'd have mentioned it? If it was suicidal, he'd never have let me pass. Pakistan does not need that kind of bad press. I stiffened my resolve and firmly nudged the boy out of the way. -I'll take my chances, ...
... s' with spicy mashed potato, washed down with ‘garam chai’, felt much better, got into the van, soon off to Chilas, a little town in the Gilgit Baltistan. We had booked to stay at Shangrila Indus veiw hotel. Trout for dinner, listening to tales ...
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