Hunza Valley
Terraces, water channels, and a highway that keeps climbing toward the high ridges.
Pakistan
Places for a slower route.
Hunza, Skardu, Swat, Fairy Meadows, Deosai, Chitral, Neelum, and Kumrat. The writing is a draft. The photographs illustrate the country.
Skardu
A broad valley of the Indus in Baltistan, stony and wide.
Swat Valley
A river valley of orchards and forested ridges, lower and greener than the Karakoram.
Fairy Meadows
A high pasture on the north side of Nanga Parbat, reached on foot from the road.
Deosai
A high plateau of grass, water, and weather, above the valleys.
Neelum Valley
A long valley in Azad Kashmir, following the Neelum River.
Chitral
Terraced fields and villages in the far north-west of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Kumrat Valley
A travel guide to the deodar forests, the Panjkora River, Jahaz Banda, and Katora Lake in Upper Dir.