We entered Pakistan coming from China via the Khunjerab Pass, this is the highest border crossing in the world (4730m). As you can see on the picture it was snowing. And because of the altitude you feel a little bit dizy in the head.
Pakistan is S. Asia's best kept secret. Less crowded than India, it is also less stressful to travel in. If I were to pick the singularly most spectacular place to go, it must be Karimabad, the capital of the erstwhile 'lost kingdom' of Hunza far up in the northern Gilgit Agency next to the Chinese border. With the luminous snowcapped peak of Rakaposhi, one of the three or four highest mountains on earth, it is a superb place to be.
Traveling with a group of Pakistani university students who were doing a study of the diets of village people in the upper Swat River Valley. Here some of the poorest people of Pakistan exist -- barely -- in a mountain landscape reminiscent of Colorado, Alberta, or Switzerland.