KPK To Gilgit-Baltistan

Safety Precautions in Chilas for Vehicle Life

and In Kohistan for Your Own Life!

Lulusar Lake

After my first experience of camping, the cold night stay in Naran ended. We refreshed ourselves in the morning with a mug of tea. Shut our camp and packed the things back to the trunk. It appeared a headache if you have to organise this on early morning. We continued our journey from Naran towards Babusar top. On the way we enjoyed the Lulusar Lake view from Road. The Lulusar Lake is more similar to a calm river type lake moving beside the road. Its aqua colour does appeal the eyes of every tourist travelling from Naran towards Babusar Top.

Weather gets colder and colder as you move towards Babusar top. When we reached Babusar top it was the place for Mother Nature lovers only. As its not much to do there and quality of food is below average, the thing you do there is take a strong wind walk with a majestic view of mountain ranges connecting at this point. It’s the shortest approach towards Hunza side from Chilas, but only opens for limited months. It is said that there are very rare places where you can travel to the height of 4,173 meter in your car. We friends were lucky because usually the way from Babusar top is blocked because of heavy snowfalls. We didn’t stay there for long and continued our journey.

Zigzag Chilas Road

The Road to Chilas is one of the most dangerous paved roads. You have to keep a temperament to keep the vehicle slow in a snake type zigzag slope. Some cars brakes do get hot there, so have to keep it slow and avoid heavy-duty breakdowns. The tough braking wears the brake pads faster. It can similarly overheat and harm the rotors each by generating glazing. In adding to this, around each part of the vehicle will be suffering additional stress. As the burden of the car moves forward your car shocks and coils compress placing more weight on the suspension, ball bushings, joints, wheel bearings, etc. This transference of burden will place the tires in additional friction, triggering them to wear sooner. Your car alignment slants can transform as well under these situation which lead to affect the tires.

Stone Homes In-between Chalas and Kohistan

In 2011 and 2012 the security was wicked in Kohistan. The Kohistan police use to stop busses to travel at night. Sometimes at that place they use to stop and transfer traffic in form of conveys to protect the traveller's. When we entered Kohistan it was day time and the security was not rigid, only our Identity cards were checked. So I do recommend travelling from Kohistan at day period to evade any misfortune or difficulty from security. Try not to stop your car if some random people came across you especially near Harban Nala place as there are many incidents recorded of men executed for just having a dissimilar set of religious opinions. Though I was prepared for this all because of news circulating in media but fortunately this all appeared fake to me. However the situation of living style in that place is rigid, still I didn’t found anything to be petrified of. All appreciations to Pak Army that the security situation is controlled there now as compare to the period between 2010 and 2013.