Glacier Breeze Restaurant Passu Hunza

  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...