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...

 The Glacier Breeze Restaurant sat like an eyrie on the top of one of the many rocky outcrops that litter the local landscape.Unable to see an obvious path to the top, a figure appeared from inside and pointed to what I had thought was a drainage canal. Apparently, it was the “road” to the parking area just behind the restaurant. After negotiating the narrow, water-filled gravel track I was met by Tanweer, the manager. A little bit of home high in the Karakoram Range – Tanweer in his XXXX T-shirt! I could not believe my eyes when I saw the T-shirt he was wearing. In large letters across the front it read: “XXXX: Proudly Queensland”. Passu is considered remote even by Pakistani standards let alone by Australian standards. I immediately felt at home! Tanweer’s brother, Khan, produced a pot of coffee and some apricot cake while Tanweer explained how he had come by his parochial T-shirt. Apparently he had an uncle who had migrated to Australia and now lived in Brisbane. ...

  The excellent apricot cake in town   Glacier Breeze Café and restaurant , perched on the glacier moraine overlooking Passu village and KKH. The superb location has the glacier stream rushing beside it with 360 panoramic view which includes Passu Glacier, Passu Cathedrals. The aroma of the well-known apricot cake fills the air which makes the almost 120 steps really worth climbing . We ordered a mug of espresso and the chef served the yummiest coffee as promised. Glacier Breeze café has the sector well-known Apricot cake a uniqueness of the region baked via Chef Ahmed. Baked virtually , the cake was clean , heat and syrupy, served with the most aromatic special green tea (tumoro) and perfectly brewed French Press espresso .    

  Hussaini Suspension Bridge Hussaini Suspension Bridge is one of most visited and dangerous hanging bridge in Pakistan.this bridge is located at altitude of 2,600m in Gojal Hunza,Gilgit-Baltistan.   Passu Suspension Bridge This Hanging bridge is one of the oldest and dangerous Bridge located at Passu in Gojal,Hunza,Gilgit-Baltistan.15 minutes Drives from Hussaini you will find the Signboard on the road side while travelling toward Passu.   Rainbow Suspension Bridge This Hanging bridge as been Constructed on Khunjerab River Located in Passu Gojal,Hunza,Gilgit-Baltistan.10 minutes Drives from Passu you will find the Signboard on the road side Near to Batura Glacier and Passu Cones.      

Glacier Breeze - Home Of The Apricot Cake! Very Nice Little Cafe And Restaurant, Set Up Atop A Hill, With A Beautiful View Of Passu And Of The Glacier Melt River. The Place Is Nice And Very Clean, One Of The Rare Places Still Offering Hunzai Food Here. We Loved Their Apricot Cake, Which They Are Famous For (we Bought 3 Full Ones To Take With Us And Share With Friends!), But The Walnut Cake Is Also Very Good  

   Glacier Breeze Apricot Cake and Hunza Loacal ingredients has proved us to be the best eating place in the location. The eating place is perched on the glacier moraine overlooking Passu village and KKH.the fantastic location has the glacier stream speeding beside it with 360 panoramic view including PASSU GLACIER, PASSU CATHEDRALS (TOPAPDAN), FAIRY SEAT (PIRI GOZ).

  This place is magic #hunza #akcent

 “He’s a very respectful husband. He’s different from a lot of the men in this region. He never stops me from voicing my opinions. And if he ever notices me walking down the road, there’s always hot tea and apricot cake waiting when I arrive.”(Passu, Pakistan) Source:Human of New York

  A scenic place to enjoy a coffee while having a break in traveling. Half owned by a Thai lady, the cafe offers coffee, which is not common in small Pakistani towns. Located uphill from the road. Definitely worth visiting, popular also among locals.

This thoroughfare is the only one connecting the 2,400 residents of the village of Shimshal to the outside world. The jeep bumps along a sloppy mud road carved between the country's mountainous north, its tyres running with breathtaking precision along the very edge, where nothing but air lies between them and the snake-like river winding hundreds of feet below. More than 3,000 metres above sea level the vehicle has no room for error, its other side just inches from scraping along the rock face, its passengers worriedly monitoring how anxious the driver appears. For his part, Shahid Karim spends as much of his time watching the mountains themselves as he does gauging how close he is bringing his jeep to the edge. Driver Mirza Aman assists local passengers to board his vehicle in Shimshal valley of Hunza district. —AFP “At every second death is written on this road... This whole area is notorious for landslides,” he says, adding ...

To be honest, I've never written a travel blog before so I'm not sure how to go about it but here goes. My husband and I took a weeks trip to GB, Pakistan from 9th-16th July. Since, we were travelling together for the first time we weren't looking for adventure, tourism. We were just looking to getaway, relax and spend some quality time together. I'm going to use this space to answer the most commonly asked questions about our trip. We took a bus from Islamabad, that took us straight to Gilgit. It's called 'NATCO' which is short for The Northern Areas Transport Corporation. It took us about 16 hours to get there with a about 3-4 stops in the middle. The bus leaves at 10 p.m which is good since you're able to spend most of your time sleeping and the travel time doesn't feel too long - at least it didn't to us. We were expecting it to feel like forever but it didn't. The views are nice but monotonous and the way itself isn...

We went to Glacier Breeze Cafe and Restaurant for dinner on 6.7.2018, because we wanted to get one of the famous apricot cakes on our way back from a visit to Passu village, where we spent some time with a relative of the Chef. He had a nice Hunza chicken curry and were lucky to get a cake, which was almost as good as my high expectations went

GILGIT: Carrying Pakistani and Chinese flags on his back, 78-year-old Rehber Ali on Wednesday started a 100-kilometre walk on the Karakoram Highway from his native village in upper Hunza to Aliabad, the district headquarters, to pay tribute to the doctors of Red Army of China who saved his life 40 years ago during the KKH construction. Before start of his three-day walk on the occasion of Nauroz to be culminated on Pakistan Day, Ali of a Khyber village, said when he was 38 years old in 1968, he became paralysed due to an undiagnosed severe pain in his legs. “At that time the area had no medical facility, nor had local people easy access to other areas of the country,” he said, adding at that time locals used traditional methods to treat diseases, but in his case the disease was undiagnosed and all the methods failed to cure it. In 1968 during construction of KKH, doctors of Red Army of China set up medical camps at various areas to provide medical facility to la...

Ali Qurban Mughanni | Glacier Breeze Glacier Breeze Cafe become very famous for its apricot cake and coffee .after the white chalked on glacier made hill "well come to pasu" you will drive optimum 3 minutes to reach at a bridge and will fine the cafe hut at left up above on glacier morin following with a long healing stairs and jeep road to reach up the spot.Ahmad Ali Khan who is the owner and and immersive experienced chef will well come you. he behave more likes friend than a causal customers. The first appeal for you is the beautiful scene of passu white glacier and the naturalhigh mountains around you. and feeling of cool breeze of the famous passu glacier. in summer time glacier waterboils over the bolters on its zigzag course and look very interesting from sitting up above. Apricot cake is a unique product of Ahmad Ali Khan, who serves you the cake with a mug of coffee. apart from cake and coffee he creates different dishes that hits the spot. he prepares food as pe...

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