(Beautiful Gilgit-Baltistan) by Shafqat Amanat Ali

"Yahaan/ This Place" (Beautiful Gilgit-Baltistan) by Shafqat Amanat Ali

YAHAAN
Manzar mile ga na yeh kaheen pe
Dekhna ho jannat ko zameen pe
Aa jao
Dekho yahaan
Qudrat ke karishmay yahaan

THIS PLACE
This idyll you will not find anywhere
If you want to see a piece of heaven on earth
Heavens open their doors right here
Come
Experience this place
Nature's wonders dwell in this place

Ek baar jo aye
DIl yahaan reh jaye
Jana chahe na phir
Yahaan se

He who comes here once
Leaves his heart behind
And never wants to leave
This place

Phoolon ki shahzaadi
Muskuraye yahaan
Angrayi leti bahaarein
Bhi mileingi yahaan
Tum aao, chahe jiss se milo
Rehta hai har mausam yahaan

The fairy princess of flowers
Smiles upon this place
The seductive turnings of Spring
You will (also) find in this place
Come , and meet everyone who lives in this place
Every season in nature (too) lives in this place


Raat ki kya kahein hum
Taaron [e rakh ke qadam
Badlon ki shaal orhe
Vadi mein ho jayein gum
Chalte rahein, buss chalte rahein
Le jaye yeh rasta jahaan

And what shall we say about the night
Stepping on a sheet of stars,
Wearing a veil of clouds.
We can disappear in the valleys
Let's walk away and keep on walking
To wherever these paths lead us

Jitni haseen vadiyaan hain
Dil bhi utne haseen
Aise dil, aise chehray
Na milenge kaheen
Chehray haseen, manzar haseen
Aur pyari si hain boliyaan

As beautiful as the valleys
Is every heart beating here
Beautiful hearts, beautiful faces
You will not find (this) anywhere else
Beautiful faces, beautiful sights
(And) the soothing beauty of their sounds

Ek baar jo aye
DIl yahaan reh jaye
Jana chahe na phir
Yahaan se

He who comes here once
Leaves his heart behind
And never wants to leave
This place.

Laila Peak, Hushe, Baltistan

Laila Peak, Hushe, Baltistan .

It has a distinctive spear-like shape. One of the most beautiful & scenic snow covered mountain of the world.
The Laila peak has been climbed only twice.

Baltoro region in Baltistan

Mordor, the darker side of Tolkien's Middle-earth. Baltoro region in Baltistan.

The trough of this glacier is very wide. Small valley glaciers form icefalls where they meet the trunk glacier. The sidewalls vary from very steep to precipitous. The glacier has carved striations on the surrounding country rocks. The glacier can be approached via the important Balti town of Skardu.

Khaplu Baltistan

A Beautiful View Of Khaplu Baltistan.

Hushay

Ariel View of the Sacho base camp Hushay

Kachura Lake.

The Kachura Lakes are two lakes in the Skardu District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan. The lakes, at 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) in elevation, are Upper Kachura Lake and Lower Kachura Lake.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachura_Lake
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/atifsaeed/5203281541
Picture Credit: Atif Saeed

Deosai Plains Skardu

DuniYa haI dIl waLo'N Ki :)

Deosai Plains Skardu

This idyll you will not find anywhere
If you want to see a piece of heaven on earth
Heavens open their doors right here
Come
Experience this place
Nature's wonders dwell in this place

He who comes here once
Leaves his heart behind
And never wants to leave
This place

K2

K2 It is the second-highest mountain on Earth, only after Mount Everest. It has a peak elevation of 8,611 m [28,251 feet]!!!

K2 has never been climbed in winter.

The Great Trango Tower

The Great Trango Tower, 6,286 m (20,608 ft).

The east face of the Great Trango Tower features the world's greatest nearly vertical drop. [aka Tallest vertical mountain of world]

Located in Baltistan .
This is one of the most difficult mountains to climb.
A perfect attraction for Base Jumping, 2 Aussies made world record of base jumping here in 1992.

Biafo Glacier

This is not Fox and Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. This is Biafo Glacier - which is a 63 km long glacier in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan meets the 49 km long Hispar Glacier at an altitude of 5,128 m (16,824 feet) at Hispar La (Pass) to create the world's longest glacial system outside the polar regions. [It is considered to be t...he most beautiful glacier of the world]. It is also called as "Heaven on Earth". Pakistan has the most beautiful view of mountains on the planet!

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biafo_Glacier