Hunza the Land of Beauty and Culture

Hunza valley is located in the north of Pakistan. This Valley is Famous for multiple reasons including lush greenery, Land of Glaciers, historical background and most beautiful Cherry blossom view in spring and autumn in the month of October and November. Hunza Valley is divided into 3 parts.

1. Upper Hunza Gojal 
2. Central Hunza
3. Lower Hunza

Famous Places to Visit in Hunza Valley

1. Karimabad
2. Nagar Valley
3. Hopper Valley
4. Sost Border 
5. Gulmit Valley
6. Duikar Valley
7. Khunjarab Pass
8. Gojal Valley

Karimabad:-

Beautiful Valley of Karimabad is the Capital of Hunza Valley. This is the rich and strong historical region. Its most famous places are 

1. Baltit Fort
2. Queen Victoria Monument
3. Channel Walk

Altit Fort lies above karimabad in Hunza Valley.

Nagar Valley:

This beautiful Valley is also known as Nagar Khas. Rush Lake is Located in Nagar Valley, which is a high altitude lake. Another Beauty of Nagar Valley is Hopper Village which is famous for its hopper glaciers along with its scientific view.

Another famous place spantik also known as Golden Peak lies in between Nagar Valley.

Sost Border:

It is the Last Village of Hunza Village of Hunza Valley on Karakoram highway. All the Crossing of Passengers and cargo transport between Pakistan and China passes through the highway of this town.

Gulmit Valley:

This valley is also known as Valley of Flowers and Valley of Nine Colours. Birth Lake is Located in this valley. It is also famous for its paramonic view of Passu Cones.

Duiker Valley:

This Valley Lies above the Altit Village. It is famous as a viewpoint. It is often referred to as the Eagle Nest. It gives a viewpoint for Rakaposhi and Lady Finger.

Gojal Valley:

This Valley is Famous for a beautiful lake known as Attabad Lake. It was created as a result of the Attabad disaster in Jan 2010. It is one of the biggest tourist attractions offering many recreational activities.

Khunjarab Pass:

It is the high mountain pass in mountains heading towards Pak China border. There is also a National Park where lies a rear species of now Leopards.

Best time to Visit Hunza Valley.

The time to visit Hunza Valley is March to October. But it becomes rushy during peak summer because the temperature becomes warm at that time.

Best Time to see the beautiful cherry blossum in Hunza Specially in Karimabad is mid of March till the end of April.

How to Visit Hunza valley:

Nowadays there are different travel agencies that are providing packages and tour operators for Hunza Valley. By taking their  Hunza tour Packages you can visit the whole Hunza valley at a reasonable price and way even in a rushy day.

Famous Peaks in Hunza Valley:

 The Famous peaks of Hunza Valley are

1. Diram Peak
2. Rakaposhi Peak
3. Golden Peak
4. Ultar Peak

Famous Local Foods of Hunza Valley:

1. Hirisa
2. Biyagno Fasanjoon
3. Feyok Shaa Moskut
4. Ab-shaa
5. Shakkurba
6. Furus Fulka
7. Palapu
8. Mamtu
9. Lhmnd 
10. Chapshuro
11. Gyal

Local dress of Hunza Valley:

Like most other areas of Pakistan men in Hunza Valley wears shalwar kameez and the Women wear long frocks with shalwar. The thing which makes different is the round cap, which is part of the dressing of both men and women.

People of Hunza Valley:

Like people of the entire Gilgit Baltistan people of Hunza valley are very friendly. People are always ready to help each other as well as outsiders.

Hunzaie keeps their places very clean. There is no security issue in Hunza Valley as it is the safest place in Gilgit Baltistan.

Women’s in Hunza Valley:

Women’s in Hunza Valley are very versatile. They do all the chores of their houses and also runs a small business. They a run various business-like

1. Making and selling Wooden Handicrafts.
2. Selling Gem Stones of their Mountains.
3. Selling Soveneigers.
4. Seling Woven things.
5. Selling Local Dry Fruit.
6. Selling Famous Local dishes on the streets.

Languages in Hunza Valley:

Local languages of Valley are

1. Burushaski
2. Shina Language
3. Wakhi Language

Literacy rate of Hunza Valley:

The Literacy rate of Hunza is more than 77%.

Average Age of Hunzai peoples.

Average Life Spam of People of Hunza is a hundred and twenty years and time may exceed up to 150 years.

This blessing is because of Organic food, homemade oils and a healthy lifestyle.

Crops and fruits of Hunza Valley.

Major crops of this village are:

1. Wheat
2. Barley
3. Potatoes

Major Fruits of Hunza are:

1. Apple
2. Apricot
3. Cherry
4. Mulberry
5. Pear
6.  plum
7. Strawberry
8. Almond

Main Festival of Hunza valley:

Annual Crop harvesting festival is known as “Ginani” is celebrated in Hunza Valley on 21st June.

Religions in Hunza Valley:

People of Hunza Valley are divided into two groups in terms of religion.

1. Ismaili Muslims
2. Shia Muslims

Ismaili Muslims: 

These Peoples are the followers of Prince Aaga Khan These peoples have a great impact on Prince Aaga Khan on their lives. They are very much well behaved open-minded open hearts and happiest people of Hunza. They strongly believe in women’s empowerment.

Prince Aaga Khan has a great contribution to the education and health sector. Their major effort is to preserve and restore the culture of Gilgit Baltistan especially in Hunza in the form of Altit & Baltit Fort.

 In Altit Fort no of old women’s of the village come towards a specific is where they spend most of their day time by taking rest and gossiping with each other. No Children and men are allowed to that specific part of the fort.

Wrinkles on the faces of these beautiful ladies are telling various stories of ancient times.

Navroz Festival:

This is a huge festival celebrated worldwide by Ismail Shia Muslims. It is celebrated on 21st March at the beginning of spring.

These people recite poetry like Qasidas and Manqabas in their Jammat Khan. Dried nuts, fruits, and grains are distributed among the members of Jammat Khana.

At the time of Navroz festival families arranges gettogether to celebrate meals and to bond strongly with each other.

Games in Hunza:

There are various games played by hunzaie people but like the entire Gilgit Baltistan “Polo” is the most famous game of Hunza which was also played at the time of Raja’s large playgrounds are present in entire Gilgit Baltistan as well as in Hunza for Polo practices and festivals. Mostly National level players of polo belong to Gilgit Baltistan as they started to play it from their Childhood.

Why to Visit Hunza Valley

If you are found of History, culture nature than the phrase of “All in 1” is perfectly applicable to Hunza Valley. It is the most beautiful land of Glaciers, lakes Mountains as well as Fruitful trees.

Its beauty increase because of humble residents and versatile culture.