Fairy meadows Tour 2011

Fairy meadows tour


Fairy meadows

Duration: 5 Day
Distance: 650 Km(From Grw.)
Season:June~October

Summary:
Grw. to mansehra to naran to chilas to fairy meadows.

Day 1 – Me(Mudaser),My cousin (Mubeen),My chachu (Faran),our frnd (Faisal),Brother (matloob) (qayoum) decide a tour to fairy meadows via naran. we left Grw at 9pm and I had done my booking of faisal travels" for mansehra they charge 350/- rupees per head.
Day 2– We reached at mansehra at 6am early morning.and have a toyota to naran that charged 200/-per head.

Group(without me)

Here we hire a jeep for fairy meadows(16000/-) with fuel for two days.

Our jeep and driver(Riaz)

1st we saw the dark lake "lulusar lake"


Lulusar lake

then we have a lovely scene on "babusar top"
:) love it.


babusar top

Now our destination was "chilas" we enjoy the roads towards chilas.very dangerous due to flood

In 2011 the road is closed for everyone(alternate is used)

A glacier on the way toward chilas

we reached chilas about 7pm.A very very hot place in the mountains.every hotel have room cooler.this place is famous for these kind of stone.

Hotel charge 1000/- per day.


Sun flower in hotel's lawn

Day 3 – From chilas we start our destination of fairy meadows.the indus river is with you until you reach at "raikot bridge"

indus river

We take our breakfast in truck hotel.this is 1st time i experience truck hotel's food

Truck hotel

Indus river and Faisal.

we reached at "raikot bridge" 9am and from here you hire a jeep for fairy meadows 5000/-

Near raikot bridge.

And have a very dangerous bridge in the mid way.

from here u hire a new jeep 1000/-
After 2 hour u reached at the point from here u hire a horse(1300/-) or go on foot and have hikking.
we stay at this point for half hour and decide for hikking.

Local room for Guests

Short stay for tea

We start hiking.and total time is 3-4hours.

After 2 hours we rest in mid way hotel

Our group in hotel mid way


Tough hiking towards fairy meadows


Nanga parbat view from fairy meadows

The room rent in fairy meadows is 1500/-


At hotel

The prices of diffrent things in fairy meadows
250/- per plate of "daal"
Egg 50/-
paratha 50/-
tea 50/-
very very expensive.

Day 4 – we left fairy meadows early in morning.and start journey for naran

Rest on the way

Here we stay for 15 min.A cool place

Scene near naran


Road toward naran

Beautiful scene River kunar

River kunar

we reach naran at 6pm and booked a room.2000/-.our group member bhai "matloob" and qayoum leave us and go back to their cities.and we now have four members in our group


Me and faisal near our hotel(Naran)

we enjoy the bazar of naran and eat "chapli kabab" at night.

Day 5 – Next day we decided to go for "Saiful Malook lake".The 2hour hiking.(one way)
At the start we walk on a glacier and start our hiking.