Memorable panoramas: Jaglote: where 3 empires meet
A perspective of a joining of Karakoram, Hindukush, and Himalayas in Gilgit-Baltistan. PHOTO: EXPRESS
GILGIT: The segment where a 3 mightiest towering ranges – a Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush – accommodate is Gilgit. It is eminent for some of a world’s best scenery, movement and walking opportunities. Unfortunately, not many – both in a nation and abroad – know this fascinating square of land.
The accurate indicate that offers noted panoramas of some of a world’s best peaks is located tighten to Jaglote city – about 40 kilometres from Gilgit.
“A Junction Point of a 3 mightiest towering ranges of a world” reads a information embellished on a wall. However, a information isn’t distinguished adequate to locate a courtesy of tourists travelling by a area.
And Sheikh Munir, a traveller from Karachi, wasn’t an exception. On his new revisit to Gilgit, he came to know about what is “junction point” hours before his lapse moody to Islamabad.
“Is that unequivocally in Gilgit,” says a traveller in mystification as he packs adult for his lapse journey.
“I wish we had famous it progressing so we could have some snaps.”
Munir wasn’t a initial traveller to skip a singular place. Many others do that especially given a place lacks a graphic pointer to pull tourists’ courtesy – who pass by in speeding cars.
But Mohammad Asif was among a few propitious tourists to make it to a point. Hailing from Lahore, he says he had listened a lot about a place given his childhood though got a possibility to see it usually this month.
“It was awe-inspiring, to contend a least,” Asif exclaims as he walks adult a tiny structure assembled for sightseeing.
As he stands, on his left side was a Karakoram Range, that is home to a top thoroughness of peaks including K2, a second top rise during 8,611m. With a length of about 500km, a Karakoram Range is pronounced to be a many heavily glaciated partial of a universe outward a Polar Regions.
Likewise, Himalaya was in front of him opposite a river. It is home to a world’s top rise – Mount Everest – and Hindu Kush is to Terichmir during 7,708 metres, among many others.
On his behind was Hindu Kush, a towering complement scarcely 1000 miles prolonged and 200 miles wide, using northeast to southwest and dividing a Amu Darya River Valley and a Indus River Valley. It stretches from a Pamir Plateau nearby Gilgit to Iran.
“Gilgit-Baltistan is unequivocally a singular place and has a lot for outsiders,” murmurs a male as he gets behind to his automobile to expostulate a remaining stretch to Gilgit.
In his book patrician “Where Three Empires Meet” published in 1893, Edward Frederick Knight also mentioned a place. And there is folklore compared with a indicate that is discussed even currently in a alpine region.
“Our forefathers used to tell us it was a categorical headquarters of jinn and fairies,” says Aslam Khan, a proprietor of a adjoining Jaglote area.
“River Gilgit that meets here with River Skardu is what is used by these abnormal quadruped for celebration and holding bath,” he tells The Express Tribune.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2016.
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