{"id":52464,"date":"2015-02-23T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=52464"},"modified":"2016-08-19T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:46:38","slug":"7-beautiful-photographs-of-the-magnificent-minimarg-valley-astore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2015\/02\/23\/7-beautiful-photographs-of-the-magnificent-minimarg-valley-astore\/","title":{"rendered":"7 beautiful photographs of the magnificent Minimarg Valley, Astore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minimarg is one of the many villages located in the Astore District of Gilgit-Baltistan. It is a scenic valley located close to the world-famous Deosai plains. It is around 3500 meters above the sea level.<\/p>\n

According to Shams Paras Qureshi, a local journalist, the name Minimarg actually means the place where “Mini” died. He said that Mini was reportedly the wife of a British officer deputed in the region during the colonial period.<\/p>\n

“She was a very humble lady, liked by the people, so after her death in this area the picturesque valley became famous as Mini-Marg, or the place where Mini died”.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The lush green valley. Photo: Umair Hassan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The road to Minimarg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The beautiful plain filled with flowers, also known as Chota Deosai, or Small Deosai. Photo: Umair Hassan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wooden<\/a>
Wooden houses used by the seasonal settlers. Photo: Umair Hassan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A small hamlet located at the age a slope in the Minimarg Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Minimarg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minimarg is one of the many villages located in the Astore District of Gilgit-Baltistan. It is a scenic valley located close to the world-famous Deosai plains. It is around 3500 meters above the sea level. According to Shams Paras Qureshi, a local journalist, the name Minimarg actually means the place where “Mini” died. He said …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4681],"tags":[167,43,9,788],"class_list":["post-52464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-astore","tag-baltistan","tag-gilgit","tag-minimarg"],"better_featured_image":{"id":52469,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":3264,"height":2321,"file":"2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"minimarg3-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"minimarg3-450x320.jpg","width":450,"height":320,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg?fit=450%2C320&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"minimarg3-600x427.jpg","width":600,"height":427,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg?fit=600%2C427&ssl=1"},"150x150":{"file":"minimarg3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3-150x150.jpg"},"120x85":{"file":"minimarg3-120x85.jpg","width":120,"height":85,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3-120x85.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"minimarg3-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":3.8,"credit":"","camera":"COOLPIX L120","caption":"","created_timestamp":1341417664,"copyright":"","focal_length":"10.2","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.02","title":"","orientation":1}},"post":52464,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/minimarg3.jpg?fit=3264%2C2321&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60814,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52464\/revisions\/60814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}