a step into heaven

by MUHAMMAD MESUM (Pakistan)

A leap into the unknown Pakistan

Hello! My name is Muhammad Mesum and I am a blogger, technical content writer, social activist, event organizer and a CS student from Pakistan and here is my travelling story. "A STEP INTO HEAVEN" My travelling started in late 2015 but it was at its peak during mid of 2016, when I decided to explore the un-discovered beauty, cultural variations and local traditions. I was based at Islamabad which is the world 2nd most beautiful capital, so I started to present the real picture of this city which social media didn’t showed us. I wrote my first blog about 5 must visit places in Islamabad with their pictures and it was a great hit for me at that time (75 views). I continued my journey and after few months I had a family trip to Quetta. That was a marvelous 5 days trip and I visited many of the well known and famous spots within and outside the city including Ziarat Residency, Hana Orak lake and the famous no cooking oil hotel ( Dubai hotel in Quetta). After this tour my life was well-tracked on to this travelling platform and cheers me up to continue this journey and I didn’t looked back for next two years. Although I had travelled about 3 out of 4 provinces of Pakistan but there was no such journey which I can put as the front page of my “on the go life”. But then it comes the time after may 2018, when I got my bag packed up for the northern areas of Pakistan. Initially I considered it as a tiring voyage when I can to know that I am travelling by road and the journey is for more than 16hrs of drive but my excitement was conquering my tiring attitude. We left Islamabad at mid night and after a nonstop ride of 5hrs I opened my eyes when the last star gave me a good bye kiss. It was an early morning at Naran camps. The sun shines up behind the mighty snowy mountains of Babusar top and its soft light rays on the flowing river made the water crystal clear made the even more attractive. If I had a genie, I’d had made a wish for “ A morning coffee at the time”. But unfortunately, there was no café nearby. My journey goes on and we reached the Babusar top. It was mid of june but the snowy building were still firmly built. Crossing through those giant snow towers was the thing I had seen first time and probably that was my last time. Anyways, we move on and after a long journey from chilly mountains of babusar, the blazing heat of chillas, crossing the Hindukash mountain range and witnessing the mightiness of nanga parbat. We finally reached gilgit city. The temperature of the city was a little lower than Islamabad but the hospitality of the locals warmth my heart. Next day I left for hunza and reached attabad lake. The history of this lake is that it was created by a natural disaster when a part of gaint mountain fell into the flowing river and blocked the water. This thing turned into a lake with blue water(yep it is). After enjoying that sight we came back to hunza and visited the old Baltit and Altit forts. On the way back to our hotel stoped nearby a cherry garden to take some pictures , suddenly a guy rushed towards us and offered us two boxes of fresh cherry. His hospitality touched my heart and made me to love that city even more. My last visit was to a remote and most undiscovered area of Gilgit that was “NALTAR”. There were no road and it was a total off-road track. but the end was more like “ heaven”. Green and white mountains all around the valley, people working in potato fields and the hut shaped restaurants were made me to lost in the nature’s beauty and made me to feel most alive. For a moment there I lost myself. It was a great 4 days trip and a well spent time with tons of memories and some of my life best experiences I would never forget