After a local breakfast, we’ll take a city tour with a local guide around Lahore visiting the most famous Moghul wonders like Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Fort and Wazir Khan Mosque. Later in the afternoon, we’ll head to the Wagha Border which is the India-Pakistan Border and watch their daily ceremony. It’s busy and bustling but a lot of fun to see and of course, we’ll be cheering loudly for Pakistan!

We’ll depart Lahore and start our drive up North into Northern Pakistan. This is a long journey but we’ll be driving through the tallest mountain ranges in the world that all meet in Gilgit Baltistan! We’ll be taking stops when we need them and breaking up our journey by staying overnight at Gonar Farm, a traditional house and homestay.

You might have heard about the Fairy Meadows in Northern Pakistan and this is where we’ll be staying tonight but first, we need to get up early, drive to Raikot Bridge and then take jeeps along ‘the world’s most treacherous road!’ but don’t fear, we have the best drivers who make it look easy! We’ll go as far as we can in jeeps and then we’ll need to walk 2 hours uphill to Fairy Meadows. Our end will be rewarded with a night around the fire and we’ll be spending the next 2 nights here sleeping in traditional log cabins.

Today is a hiking day! After breakfast at our accommodation in the Fairy Meadows, we’ll be trekking to Nanga Parbat Basecamp and back. Nanga Parbat is the 9th highest mountain in the world 2nd the highest in Pakistan. We’re only going to Basecamp so don’t worry but will be amazing to get so close to this incredible mountain! We’ll have multiple trekking guides with us who will help encourage us all and we’ll have lunch at Bayal Camp.

We’ll hike 2 hours down from the Fairy Meadows, take jeeps back to the road and then start our way to Naltar Valley on the famous Karakoram Highway. Naltar Valley is in the Gilgit−Baltistan region. It’s a beautiful place with forests, mountains and lakes which we’ll see tomorrow!

After breakfast at our hotel, we’ll take jeep rides and do some trekking to Naltar Lakes. You may have seen photos of bright emerald lakes in Pakistan and this is what we’ll see here! Afterwards, we’ll start the drive to Karimabad in Hunza which is a lovely town and one of the main tourist towns in Northern Pakistan. We’ll check in to our hotel where we’ll stay for 2 nights.

Today will be a well-deserved slow day to take at your own pace. Karimabad is great for cafes, shopping and walking around as it’s only small in size with friendly locals and minimal traffic. Later on, we’ll go as a group to Eagles Nest which is a lovely viewpoint to watch the sunset and we’ll have a local evening with a BBQ, Fire and local music.

We’ll leave Karimabad and continue further into Hunza with our first stop being Attabad Lake. Attabad Lake was created in 2010 after a landslide and is now one of the top places to visit in Northern Pakistan because of its bright blue water. We’ll be taking a boat trip out onto the lake which will be a memorable activity for sure! Then, we’ll make our way to Ghulkin. Ghulkin is where a community of Imaili Muslims live and Ghulkin Homestay is where we’ll stay for 3 nights. This homestay is run by a lovely family who I stayed with and met back in 2019 so I can’t wait to see them again and for you to meet them too!

This area of Hunza is all about the glaciers, rivers and bridges so we’ll start the morning with a homemade breakfast by our hosts and then trek over the Black Glacier! Again, we’ll have multiple trekking guides with us who will watch, help and encourage the whole group. Then, we’ll head to Passu Hanging Bridge which is a huge and long (and kind of scary but fun) bridge over the Hunza River and see the incredible Passu Cone mountains!

This area of Pakistan and Hunza is absolutely breathtaking and when we visit in early October all of the trees will be an incredible shade of yellow and orange. Autumn in Hunza is seriously a bucket list item for me! So today we’ll explore more of the area by doing the Biscocho Trek and taking a village walk around the Orchard.

We’ll say goodbye to Hunza and the Northern Pakistan region and start our way back down South today and although we’ll spend a lot of the day on the bus, I’m sure we’ll look forward to resting and taking in the country from the bus once again. We’ll stop in Naran where we’ll spend the night. Naran is a small touristic outpost that connects Northern Pakistan. This will be your last place to pick up any goodies to bring back home so we’ll do some shopping when we arrive!

From Naran, in the morning we’ll start our way to Islamabad which is another long drive but when we arrive we’ll get to see some of this modern city which will feel very different to what we’ve seen so far in Pakistan. We’ll visit Islamabad’s (and Pakistan’s) biggest mosque Faisal Mosque for afternoon prayers and then drive onwards to Lahore where we started our tour.

The tour finishes this day and you are free to leave when you want. Breakfast will be on offer at our hotel but if you have a flight early morning, it’s fine to leave as early as you wish. If you book a later flight, you can relax at the hotel after check out or the hotel can store your bags whilst you see more of Lahore until you are ready to leave.