Besham 2007

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Ford F1 on the N5: On the national highway to Lahore from Karachi, parked next to a banana plantation. You see plenty of them in Sindh.

Ford F1 on the N5

Sign board as you enter Punjab from Sindh

Travelling at Eid

Group Photo at Lahore

Midway stop on the Motorway - Bera

Motorway to Islamabad from Lahore

CNG line up on the Motorway

On the national highway in Punjab

Camel carts carrying bricks from the Kilns

Ford F1 with a newer model Ford SUV

Tandoor at the truck hotel

Some families are still living in tents since the 2005 earthquake

Enjoying the lunch at the truck hotel

You cold even sleep at the Truck Hotel if you were tired

On the way to Besham

Tea garden in the Shinkiari Valley

A closer view of the tea plants

On the Thakot bridge over the river Indus

Bravely crossing the freezing Indus river on tubes

Spot the chair lift

A tent village near Battagram

Monument on the Karakorum Highway honouring those who died in building the road

Mileages going further north from Besham

PTDC Hotel at Besham

Indus river at Besham

Hydro-electric power station is being constructed next to the PTDC hotel

Minor landslide being cleared on the Karakorum Highway

End of the dirt track to Barakayli

We parked our cars and then walked to the Barakayli village

Walking to the Barakayli Village

Barakayli Village

Waiting, and resting for high tea at Sami's Maiman Khanna

Hay stocked for the winter month

Grinding corn and wheat

Water channeled inthe the corn grinding room

Generator supplying electricity to the village

Water turbine used to drive the generator

Locally made knives for cutting grass for fodder

Local tailor's shop in the village

Barakayli Village to Manakhel Village

Another view of the climp UP to the next village

Donkeys on the trail

Only some 2 hours UP - a view of the valley below

Trekking up the mountain at night

Manakhel Bela village

View of the Kohistan mountains

Cows at our host's house

After a good nights sleep

Shamu still asleep and refusing to get up as usual!

Tents pitched on the roof

5-Star sleeping arrangement inside the tents

Even coke was carted all the way up to the mountain top for us city people!

Shoe being given the bandaid treatement

Terrace field being tilled

People cut down trees in the summer

Making our way down through a greener part of the mountains

Coming down was more difficult, one needed to be really careful not to slip

Relatively good part of the trail

Local wild berries

Up the tree picking berries

Winter approaching, these are the last remaining fruits still on the trees

Taking a much need break

A local Kohistani villager

Filling up our drinking water from a spring

Many of the mountains in Kohistan have been deforested

Group photo at the Rana lodge Besham

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