welcome to my one day quest to see the highest land border in the world at khunjerab pass
welcome to pakistan welcome to sost welcome to china border
good morning i've had a wonderful night's sleep here at attabad lake it was amazing
and the weather seems to have opened up as well which i'm really happy about you can see the sun
shining on the passu peaks right behind me so the plan is to get to khunjerab today khunjerab pass to
the pakistan china border it was closed yesterday because of a landslide so i don't know if it will
be open stay tuned to see that and there's a few more places on the way as well but if you're
coming here it in season off season especially if you're coming here like in for the blossom season
make sure you bring plenty of warm clothes because it is pretty cold it's really high up so let's go
the drive from attabad lake to sost which is the first part of the trip is
absolutely epic you see the passu peaks or the passu cones on your right hand
side patura glacier port lake on your left hand side it is just incredible
and this tribe took us about an hour and a half there's still no news on the road is open or not
but we're going anyway so we're gonna go all the way to source first and then come back and
explore the places on the way back so i'm in sost this is the last city before pakistan china border it
took us about an hour and a half to get here from attabad lake the views were excellent but we didn't
stop anywhere because we wanted to get to khunjerab early and quick so we have to change here on a
four-wheel drive let's see what happens on the way and i'm still not sure if the road is open
so there's a bit of delay before we can go any further we need to get authorization
because of an incident yesterday so i spotted a neat little restaurant that sells local food
this is a soup made with yock made noodles and veggies called tauto and this is a broth
so it's quite cold here i'm gonna try these before we get the authorization
and then we'll go further it looks really nice
it tastes really different as well i'm gonna try this and let's see
if we get authorization so after a lot of wrangling um getting permissions and
blah blah blah local officials accompanying us let's see if we can go all the way now
during the off season there's quite a lot of landsliding and they don't really spend
a lot of energy clearing the road because it's not officially used for transportation
up until the khunjerab pass it was actually pretty clear but after that
we started seeing quite a bit of roadblock as well as the snow as we went higher up
so this is khunjerab national park the last checkpost
and after that it's the border with china so you have to register yourself here if you're
local it's 100 rupees if you're a foreigner it's 10 us dollars and then we go forward
the journey time between sost and the pakistan china border
is two and a half to three hours depending on the road and the weather
khunjerab national park is actually the third largest park in the entire country
and is home to some amazing animals including snow leopards marco polo sheep blue sheep
and let's see what we can see here i mean i'm really hopeful
look we found a lot of ibex that can't talk loud because they're gonna run away
in the winters they stay down in the summer they go really high up
oh my god look at that
it's really high up now and everything is covered in snow don't be an idiot like me
and bring your sunglasses because i can barely open my eyes we're not far now
sadly this is the end we can't go any further it's barely three kilometers from here
but it's still snowing up here and the road has completely disappeared you can see behind me
so no solution but to turn back i'll have to see the highest land border and the highest idiom
in the entire world another time so we're gonna go back down and see some more spots
and try to spot some more yocks and some ibex all is not lost though so we spotted some nice
yocks and a huge herd of ibex so we're gonna go check them out and then go
back down so we could do some more stuff or like any hussaini bridge
it was a little sad not being able to go all the way up especially since we were so close
but i mean just the scenery alone around it totally made this trip worth it so we've come
down a bit and now it's time to see some yocks look there they are right behind me they're so
chilled in this weather where we're freezing our asses off but the sun is out so that's good
this is a gift that keeps on giving
we have left khunjerab and sost and it's time to see some amazing spots along the
way before we get back to hunza so on the way there's a place called glacier
breeze and apparently they have epic apricot cakes so we're gonna go try
that
so it looks absolutely delicious i'll talk to you in a minute when i've eaten it
another good thing about stopping at this place is that you can see the pasta cones and the
glacier right behind which is a good way to enjoy your cake and your tea here i'm quite liking it
i'm standing in front of batura glacier i mean not in front but basically you need to go
all the way and then there's an hour and a half trekking
unfortunately we don't have enough time but if you get time do stop here and go a bit further
so i am at borith lake now this one is completely different from attabad lake this one's a gorgeous
emerald green color look at this place what an amazing place to come for the evening
it's a bit cloudy but it's still gorgeous af i'm gonna enjoy myself for a bit there's one more stop
to make before we get back to hunza if you want to do this trip i would recommend staying in attabad lake
so you can start early in the morning that will save you quite a lot of time because if you
are coming in season it's quite busy so follow that and you'll be happy
also keep some food with you because after sost there's nothing to eat or to drink
this is a hussaini suspension bridge right behind me it's getting quite late and we still have to go to
honza which is going to take us another hour and a half so we're going to head now but it was an
amazing day even if i couldn't get to the top of khunjerab pass i will try that again next time in the
summers probably when i'm going to china so if you want to find full details of this entire
trip including you know a guide number etc check the link in the description and pastor peeks and i
wish you a very good day do like subscribe and i'll talk to you guys later