Glacier Breeze Restaurant Passu Hunza

  For the past few weeks I’ve been writing about the Gojal region of northern Pakistan, home to my favourite place in the world Passu, the stunning Attabad Lake, and the Hussaini Bridge. I’ve also written about some of the cuisine of Gilgit-Baltistan in the past, which is significantly different to that of the rest of Pakistan, emphasising fresh and dry fruits, nuts, cheese, and local wine. Today, I’m taking you to the Glacier Breeze Restaurant, home of a famous apricot cake with a view of the Cathedral Range. (Image: Facebook, Glacier Breeze Restaurant, Safar Hai Zindagi) The apricot cake, made from local ingredients, is simply divine, and the restaurant’s popularity means that you’ll likely be served a slice of cake which is still warm from the oven. Combine that with warm chai to ward off the mountain chills and the jaw-dropping views across the valley to both the glacier and the Passu Cones, and you’ll see why this place has become an obligatory stop for travellers on...

  Pakistan, a culturally and socially diverse country, boasts a civilisation going millennia; the country is host to cultural relics inherited from the knowledge and experience of communities, historians, artists, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The country’s spiritual heritage is epitomised by the mosques, shrines, temples, churches, gurudwaras, and mandirs that it has preserved over the decades. In 2020, the American magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, ranked Pakistan as the number one travel destination for tourism. Taxila, an ancient city, is a trove of treasures with Buddhist Stupas and archaeological remains. Deep in the Kalasha valleys of Chitral, you can meet the indigenous tribe believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great. Due to this kind of cultural power, the World Economic Forum has placed Pakistan among the top 25% of global destinations for its Unesco ‘World Heritage Sites’. Pakistan’s landscape is unique and varied, with high altitude mountain ranges in the no...