Today’s video is packed with adventure! This has been one of the longest days in Pakistan. We begin our day with a 3-hour hike out of Fairy Meadows. Check out the beautiful views of Nanga Parbat and the Raikot glacier. Then, we load a jeep and ride along the scariest road of our lives, forwards and in reverse on Pakistan's deadliest road. This is our second time on this road and both times, we thought we might just drop 1,000 meters to our death. We made it, though, thanks to our driver’s incredible skills.
We reward ourselves at a roadside stand of fresh cherries and apricots. Northern Pakistan’s Hunza Valley is famous for its fruits. This is cherry and apricot season, and they grow apples later on in the year. The best part of this stop is that they pack the fruit in the snow from Babusar Pass! After a few more hours of riding along the Karakoram Highway, we stop at a bizarre for chapshoro (Pakistani mutton pizza) and pink popcorn! Let us know if you know what it is made from (we don’t think it is made from corn). And, just when we think we couldn’t eat any more fruit, we come across several apricot trees right on the side of the road. Jonathan is eating fruit from the tree when the owner sees him and brings him a kilo of freshly picked apricots for our trip. Everyone we have met in Pakistan is so friendly. Also, check out the scenery of the Hunza Valley in this part of the video: snow-capped mountains, terraced hillsides, and mountains for miles.
Then, we stopped in our tracks, as we come up to a flooded road crossing. On this single car road, there is no way to “go back.” We are stuck in a queue of cars headed straight towards the flood. We watch car after car attempt to cross it, and then it is our turn. Can our SUV make it? Many doubts run through our minds, which seems to be a recurring thing for us today. Luckily, our driver is used to this and his driving skills get us across.
Before we get to our homestay, we stop for dinner. We load up on chicken korma and spicey dal mosh. We load the car one more time and before we know it we are finally “home.” We are welcomed by our wonderful host family and we snuggle into bed for a much needed rest.
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0:00 Leaving Fairy Meadows
2:28 Deadliest Road
4:53 Cherries and Apricots 🍒 🍑
8:55 Local Lunch
9:52 Ice Cream🍦
10:59 Pakistan Chapshoro
15:12 Taste Test
16:33 Granite Reacts
18:08 Fresh Apricots 🍑
22:46 Flash Flood
28:12 Dinner
31:14 Bedtime
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