Most Beautiful Village in the World / Pakistan

    

    I have this memory from after i used to be a toddler. There was a this forest out behind my house. i might spend hours and hours there. it had been the foremost beautiful place within the world. and that is how I feel here. We are driving through these tiny little roads, going higher and better up into the mountains. There area unit such, such stunning lush farmyards out here and orchards. such a big amount of trees, and bordered in mountains, this can be so beautiful. a small village high within the mountains. Oh my gosh guys i've got come to a fairy tale at once. I desire i'm in an exceedingly movie set just like the Shire or something. this is often where people actually live. It's like an enchanted fairytale glen. So i'm in a very village at once called Hopar Village. We had to drive terribly such a lot up into the mountains to urge here. The views of this place! Oh my gosh, they are... To call them beautiful is insufficient. they're with great care amazing and stunning. This whole place is simply stuffed with these beautifully made rock walls,flowering trees grass and moss.

    Bordered by these massive snowy mountains. this is often actually very near a glacier. it is the only place within the world where the people live above the glacier. Then there is a glacier down below. It's built of stone. it's actually so lovely. There are, I think, the cutest calves that I've ever seen in my life, here. These anthesis trees, they're apricot trees really, ar simply everywhere. Ohio my gosh this is often often beautiful! examine that. I even have simply detected the foremost fascinating reality concerning here! that the people's areas haven't got any boundaries or fences. It's just receptive anyone. So actually all told of history, this area has never had a thief come here. so that they don't need any such thing as locks or fences interruption their lands. I mean what what reasonably world am I in immediately. have a look at this enchanting scenery behind. They're drying their clothes over here with this amazing view of the village. this is often where they're storing wood for the winter. We simply saw some ladies that were aggregation the wood. it is a grove of magic! I'm so happy. This place is i do not know, it strikes a chord in my memory of maybe what you'd expect to determine in super scenic Japan. When all of the cherry blossoms, the Sakura blossoms, are happening or Switzerland.

    I love it! it is so beautiful here beautiful scenery and everybody is so welcoming and nice and and friendly here. That's like one in every of my favorite things and that i love having chai with everybody. It's great! - Yeah, chai is special here. There are some very rare animals that are during this area of Hunza Valley. that may be two of them would be the Panthera uncia and also the markhor, which we call the ibex. it is a really big goat with these spiraling horns and that they actually kill snakes! They're very fierce. These animals are being protected because they're rare there's not numerous of them left within the world. They exist during this area. So if there's ever time when the Markhor comes and is eating the fruit off of the trees during this village, or say a cat comes and attacks one in every of their animals. Then they're not allowed to prevent the leopard or the markhor, they solely let it eat or let it - i suppose take their animals. Then they report that to the govt and also the government will refund them the money for the loss of the animal. But that's just to stay the rare leopards and markhors safe. i'm at an area house straight away, they need invited me inside. And this is often their kitchen. Actually they originally had an older house, but it had been damaged during a flood. in order that they have now recently moved here.I feel this must be one amongst the foremost beautiful, peaceful, charming, fairytale places i've got ever seen. I've left the village now and that we are driving again through the foremost beautiful scenery. it's a stunning walkway into the fort here that's all green with such a big amount of trees. So there's actually 2 forts. and therefore the lower one is named Altit, the upper one is named Baltit. Both forts were inhabited by royalty. This fort is so cool inside! So this was built 1,100 years ago. it's the oldest monument of the Gilgit area. right away I'm standing in what accustomed be a guard tower. that the Silk Road and the river is correct before of me out of those windows here. 

   

    This fort was wont to guard against anyone that was going along the trade route because such a big amount of people were passing back and forth at now, so there needed to be a fort here.This is also where the Kings lived. there is a fort above it that's 800 years old. this can be so cool in here, and wandering through all of those little passageways and doors. Behind me straight away, this is often where 600 years ago, one amongst the Kings buried his own brother alive inside.Because the brother had started a rebellion and was difficult his power as king. They made it because first of all, you had to you recognize bow your head to travel in, which could be a sign of respect. But also, if invaders were to come back into the fort, then their heads could easily be chopped off. I've just come up this stairwell to the present view of the village below, and every one of the fields and therefore the mountains Oh my gosh! take a look at this. Behind me right here is Hunza's first ever mosque. it absolutely was built about 500 years ago. Because with the arrival of the Silk Road so many traders coming through, Islam was introduced to the world. So inside here is that the very first mosque. At this ancient fort, there was an intense selection process for who would be courageous and brave enough to enter the fort's army, and join their forces. So if you see these two rocks right here, the test would be, that somebody would must jump from that rock to the current steep rock. they might need to jump onto that rock so jump all the way back. They were brave enough to try to to it - and survived after all - then they'd be entered into the military. that's crazy. This rock is so steep. Such amazing stories here! So many thanks such a lot to my guide. What a cool place. I'm so glad that I came here. You know, after you travel, sometimes you're thinking that, I've seen numerous forts, I've seen such a big amount of... whatever, temples, cathedrals. So you think that, maybe I should skip it, but places like this...! I'm just really glad that I didn't. Again, we are driving through the foremost beautiful villages with of these flower trees and there is mountains and stone. it is a good thing that he's an honest driver, because in a very lot of those places there is not any guardrail, and we're so high at once.