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Favorite thing: Bonjour from Chitral,

I agree with the post above, NATCO is the best option to travel on KKH, very convenient buses.

The main hurdle was Atabad lake but now it's been turned into a boat safari in the highlands of Hunza so I hope you'd enjoy that in order to reach Passu.

Good luck ..

Favorite thing: Still on the bus, don't get over excited. Now you look out to your windows, the lanscape is just crazy, hopelessly beautiful, even the local Pakistanis had to strectch their necks to look, I was almost loosing control to shout at the stupid driver to stop for a rest but not a good idea, so I just keep snapping photos.

Favorite thing: You will occassionally see some Chinese in construction the bridge, they don't build roads, they build bridge, that's the deal of this Karakorum Highway, the Pakistanis build the road and the Chinese build bridge. I met some Chinese on the way but they are not in the mood for gab, probably too much of work.

Favorite thing: They said this is an airport, I went to have a look, yes is an airport, the location is right at the town centre but I did not see any planes. The road here is very easy to explore, there are not many roads actually, you can walk in one day for all. From airport to town centre is about 20 seconds if you ask me.

Favorite thing: This picture is basically what you can see from the bus, long distance bus from Mansehra or Islamabad, depends where you begin. Click the picture, its a big Indur River, this river is very strange, there's not lifes on the river banks, no vegetations. The bus drive some 4 hours only all these, dried and lifeless.

Favorite thing: Now the sun is rising at 7.30am somewhere before Gilgit, still looking at the mountains surrounding in front, still very exciting but the bus driver won't stop, gotta wait but looking. The was an Afghan guy sitting behind me with legs up to my head, I don't know what's wrong with his behavior but let him do it.

Favorite thing: Now we are almost arriving at Gilgit, the scenery has changed, I saw at times some houses, that shown in photo. Still not many peoples, only about 10 peoples per 1000 sq miles. The are mostly living the traditional way, not possible for them to work in the city but probably their children yes.

Favorite thing: Now here is probably the biggest sign so far on the entire Karakoram Highway, take a look closely. This location is still unclear, I can't provide details, but was definitely breathtaking, out of this world feel.