I Travelled to the MOST BEAUTIFUL area of PAKISTAN!

In Pakistan for the second time but this time we're exploring the most beautiful locations this country has to offer and I invited my audience to come with me so what are we waiting for let's go. So last year we visited some insanely beautiful spots here in Pakistan however we knew that there was more to see so we headed back to see what other gems this country has to offer. So we flew from the capital city of Islamabad up to the north because that is where the stunning views and adventures are. So we touched down got on the road and headed to one of the most scary and amazing spots Fairy Meadows. We're going on death road of Pakistan. How are we feeling? Nervous. Let's do it. Now I've been on the Fairy Meadows death road before but I had new friends with me so I just had to show them how scary this road truly is. However I never could have anticipated this head-to-head with another driver coming the opposite way forcing us to back up and as we were backing up look how close we come to the edge that is literally mere inches. Wow life flashing before my eyes but luckily the road didn't give out we kept backing up and we were able to pass him on the inside. Super scary but an exhilarating experience driving on a road that is simply cut out from the side of a mountain. Cyrus be honest how was that? My hands hurt. I'll never do it again. How bad was it out of 10? Like 20. Oh my gosh that was wild my hands are so black that was a crazy ride. So after gripping on for dear life we were able to enjoy the fruits of that deadly ride. This is the glacier leading up to the ninth highest mountain in the world Nanga Parbat sitting at 8126 meters. No matter where you are along the trails of Fairy Meadows there are several views and ultimately the best view which can be seen from anywhere is the view of the mountain itself. Oh chicken. Chicken. Did you hear him? He goes chicken. And that is a wrap on the stunning Fairy Meadows overlooking Nanga Parbat. The next morning we woke up in this very scenic location and headed towards the let's say infamous Hussaini Bridge. So normally I think zip lines are a pretty lame activity often placed in areas with nothing else to do however this one looks super sketchy which adds to the exhilaration factor and also had a stunning backdrop. But wow this dismount okay definitely had me scared. I then proceeded to get reprimanded for not wearing a helmet however they didn't give me one in the first place so I'm not sure what was going on. But then the guy in the black hat changed his tune gave me the double thumbs up and said I was very strong for not wearing a helmet. So last year I was here and I got in trouble for doing chin-ups off the side of this bridge but then this year they saw it online they said okay no that was kind of cool so you can guys you can go out there and do it again. Security's the best here. So professionals only right? Hanging on the bridge or shaking the bridge not allowed yeah yeah but sometimes there are some professionals who can do it but it's not allowed. Special permission? Yeah yeah okay. So after I was granted my special permission I proceeded to hang off the bridge for no good reason at all. Oh my god. After looking at the footage here it doesn't look that high or scary however if I did fall from there it would be a certain death. So after the shenanigans at Husseini bridge we packed up and headed over to Atabad lake. The story of Atabad lake is super unique because there used to be a city under there until a massive landslide hit the valley in 2010 and what remains of the city is a beautiful lake. So as a few of us were enjoying the momentary thrill of sitting on the edge of a cliff I decided to ask one of the members of our group why he came to Pakistan. Why did you decide to come to Pakistan? I was longing for an adventure I haven't been doing anything crazy since the pandemic and I saw that you offered a trip and that's why I'm here bro. In a nutshell Pakistan is exactly that a unique and adventurous place far outside the comforts of our day-to-day living which brings us to our next adventure Rakaposhi base camp trek. All right today officially begins the part of the trip I haven't experienced before so we are beginning the rest of the trip with a Rakaposhi base camp hike. We're gonna camp up there come back down tomorrow and then have a head over to Skardu. I'm excited for the rest of this trip because it's going to be completely new my eyes. Let's get into it. We've made it to our accommodation for the night and it's camping and the place is called Hakapun and it's just below it's like halfway to Rakaposhi base camp we can't stay up at Rakaposhi because it's apparently wet so we're gonna camp here and we're gonna zip up and come back down but this is just so stunning here so so stunning. So after a tea break and lunch we headed back onto the dusty trail for another couple hours until we got our first view of Rakaposhi. Oh look at that I was looking at my feet the whole hike and then we looked up and we all saw Rakaposhi all at once it was epic. Rakaposhi is 7,788 meters Come look! This stunning trail alongside the glacier went by super quick as we made it to base camp. Made it to Rakaposhi base camp and it looks like there's some other people here in the community camping site even though it's a little damp we've got some people like in a little drum circle so this looks fun let's check it out. No better way to celebrate than having a dance party. It's a dance party. They just invited us over and started playing music for us they're all from Gilgate here on vacation. What an unexpected unbelievable surprise waiting for us at base It's those little surprises that make these trips so so sweet. So after a dance party and a little tobogganing it was time to head back down the mountain to make it to our campsite where we could watch sunset and have dinner. I mean look at that campsite is that not the most aesthetic thing you've ever seen? And so after a big day of trekking we all tucked in for one last big dinner before heading to bed. All right I'm in my tent we hiked 27,000 steps 19 kilometers today I'm beat. Time to say goodnight and we'll see you tomorrow when we trek back down from the mountain. Best sleep ever. You guys slept nine and a half hours? Let's take a look. So after that legendary sleep we headed back down the mountain and embarked upon a four and a half hour journey from Hunza all the way to Skardu. After we culminated this huge travel journey we ended up in a spot called Deosai National Park. So we made it to Deosai National Park and it's a really high area of Pakistan 4,000 meters high and it's sort of like rolling hills with snow up here it's pretty cool. Apparently there's bears and marmots and stuff but we found the real entertainment and that is a vehicle got stuck and watching them trying to get it out is is amazing. We're trying to help but it's really like you just need a tractor and straps to pull this thing out but it's almost hopeless. In comes the straps oh no and then here comes the best part. Our friend Muhammad thought he could get the car unstuck so he's gonna show us. Let me teach these guys. Muhammad yes you got it Muhammad keep it going. The jumping didn't seem to work so he got in the driver's seat with one big left turn of the wheel here it goes. One guy was pushing forward the other guy was pushing back an absolute disaster. Well I guess the old turning of the wheel trick didn't work this time. We've got a new car. So they brought in another car had some more mishaps and unfortunately that one got stuck too. The other one's stuck. We ended up getting distracted by the snow but after a while we noticed they managed to get it out. Thank you Muhammad for helping out. But you told him. We're playing the rabbit run. I run across and they get to all throw snowballs Oh I'm so light-headed. Yeah I'm about four thousand meters. All right after we'd spent some time in the high altitude in the snow throwing plenty of snowballs at each other it was time to head back down. This would end today's adventure and tomorrow we prepared ourselves for the greatest hike of the trip Marsur Rock. Today's hike is up to Marsur Rock and I've been looking forward to this hike for a while because it looks like the Trolltunga Rock in Norway although I think this is a lot higher. It's 3,600 meters above sea level and then we started the hike around 22-23. Let's continue. Today we begin the trek that I'm very excited about. I've never seen this location ever before online and it looks amazing and as we were along the trail I decided to ask one of my friends what he thinks about Pakistan. All right I love Pakistan so much and I keep saying it but I want to hear from someone else on the trip so I've got Mason here. We're going to ask him what he thinks of Pakistan so far. Like everywhere you go there's a different landscape and a different thing. And what about like culturally? I mean it's different but people are really like just happy to show you and take you into the differences. Like there's there's nothing that's been like oh my god this annoys me so much. You know the sure times don't really exist and people will tell you different things but nobody's out to get you in any way. Everybody's just like they want to help and they're so eager to help sometimes it gets confused but really it's just like people just want to show you around. So then that begs the question safe or unsafe? Safe. Very safe. Speaking as a as a male in a group. Yeah. Very safe. Haven't felt unsafe at all. Minus the cliffs we go on. Yeah minus the cliffs and the planes and the jeeps like all that stuff. The danger is like is like the beauty. I couldn't have said it better myself. Expeditions a little dangerous like that bridge. Yeah. Bridge, cliffs, airplane through the Himalayas and jeep ride. I think that's one of the cool things is like people just have a different standard of life to it. They're used to it so you get to like experience their comfortable level of danger. In the west we're like we have roads we have speed limits and stuff. Here you just get like a different way of going through life because they have a different thing of danger that they're cool with. It's true. Oh god a rain's coming in hot. And right after this little conversation the clouds opened up so we ran towards a cave for protection. Vamos. There's the cave. There's the cave. So we made it to the cave of protection where we filled our time with some song and dance. Oh Han. Han. After that riveting dance we decided to try our hand at some acapella. Well I would say that was a screaming success. The rain has stopped. We resumed the trek. Come come go go go go. Needless to say we're all very excited to begin the hike again as that was an abomination of song and dance inside that cave. Four hours now including that wait for the rain. The views are getting really good. Rain has stopped. This is the hardest hike of the trip by far. It's a grind. Here we are on our last stretch towards the finale and the views are starting to get impeccable. We made it to Marsupial Rock. There it is. Made it. Worth it or what? Yeah 100%. So pretty. Everything the light touches is yours. It's now past five o'clock and that is official. That is the best hike in Pakistan I've ever done. Marsupial Rock. A mission to get here. A couple more days left of this trip. Time to go back down. So we began the four-hour trek back down the mountain and luckily the sky lit up and gave us a beautiful sunset light show. The next day as we were driving along the road we noticed some locals panning for gold on the riverbed. So of course we had to go and check it out. The process of panning for gold is a super meticulous one and the pieces of gold are extremely tiny. As you can see right there a bit of gold dust. So we asked this guy if we could buy a little bit. There it is. You just bought gold that was freshly panned out of the Indus River. That's insane. That's so awesome. I can't wait to see that like a piece of jewelry. These nomadic families live alongside the river in tents. They sell what they make to the local pawn shops in order to provide for their families. As we continued to drive through Skardu we noticed another random encounter. A polo game happening in the middle of the town. Super random. We stumbled on a live polo game. Polo in Skardu. I can't believe it. It's amazing. So it turns out that polo is actually quite a big sport here in Pakistan. I took a liking to the blue team so I decided to bet my friend Johan 1000 rupees that the blue team would win. You think you're going to win that bet? You're dreaming. I don't know. Blue's looking good but then. Johan why are you so happy? I might be winning now. So the game was pretty even and back and forth up until the blue guy caught the ball and threw it in. Now while it was amazing to win that bet something even better was happening. The crowd was getting fired up and a dance party slowly started to form in the middle of the pitch. So of course we actually had to go and join. And then after it was all over a few people wanted to know where I got my insane Pakistani dance moves. That has to be one of the most random experiences of my life. We stumbled across this polo game and then we ended up dancing in the middle of the game. Pakistan. Come on. Unreal. Unreal. Wow. Pakistan truly has surprises around every corner. And speaking of surprises. Look what we stumbled across. Wow. It's like heaven. We were just driving down the road and then saw this little pond. Unbelievable. And this brings us to the last spot on our Pakistan trip. The Skardu valley. Filled with sand dunes and lakes. It's simply beautiful. We enjoyed our final sunset swimming together surrounded by one of the world's most beautiful mountain ranges. The Korakum valley. Untouched beauty and rarely seen online. This should definitely be a bucket list item for any backpacker and traveler out there. So here's the last day of our Pakistan trip. We woke up. Beautiful view of the Skardu valley. And that's it for the Pakistan trip. Words can barely express how amazing this place is. Between the people being so nice. The landscapes that are untouched. No one's really experienced it. Never seen these places before online. It just feels like you're really exploring. And that's sort of what travel is about. Is exploring new places. When you go to places that have just been time and time again showing up online. It kind of feels like you're doing something a bit repetitive. But here it's like kind of feels like raw exploration. And you're doing something very unique. And because it really is. This is the world's highest mountains in. And it's hard. It's I mean some of the some of the journeys here are hard to do. Because they're so like untouched. And the tourism is not very developed here. So it is rewarding to visit these places. And highly recommend it. If you do it. I would consider doing a group trip. Because it's just it could be hard sometimes. And it's nice to share these moments in a group. So just send me a DM if you need. Or a comment if you need some information about that. Hope you enjoyed the video. See you next video. Bye.