{"id":1360,"date":"2008-06-18T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2008-06-18T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T06:27:49","slug":"shimshal-and-lupgar-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2008\/06\/18\/shimshal-and-lupgar-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimshal and Lupgar Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shimshal.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/shimshal.jpg?resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><em>Impressive panorama from Gar-e-Sar<\/em><span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>A travel account posted by a tourist on a travel blog, \u00a0June 17, 2008 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">Shimshal is a very remote Wakhi village whose inhabitants have more common with the people from Afghanistan and Tajikistan than Pakistan. They mostly live from their cattle and due to its remoteness there are just a small number of tourists visiting that place every year. When we arrived there have only three other people been in the only open hotel this year. That\u2019s what I call \u2018off the beaten track\u2019. I was traveling with Robert, an English guy who lives in the French Alps.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">The way up there was really spectacular. The road through the massive gorge of the Shimshal River has just been completed a few years before after 16-18 years of construction time and the cost of three lives. Before that time the people had to carry everything they needed from the outside world for three to four days over a neck breaking footpath to the village. Nowadays, a three hour jeep ride will bring you there but it\u2019s still dangerous. \u2018El camino de la muerte\u2019 seams to be a highway in comparison. We spend the second half of the ride on the roof what was a lot of fun but also endangered or lives much more. Several times you had to jump from one side to the other because of overhanging rocks that would sweep you off the roof and a few hundred meters down the gorge if you\u2019re not careful enough and some bridges with steel cables that touched us while passing even thou we were trying to avoid them. All in all a lot of fun!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\">For detail account\u00a0and pictures visit the orignal source: <a href=\"http:\/\/dqprojekt.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/shimshal-and-lupgar-valley.html\">Shimshal<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Impressive panorama from Gar-e-Sar A travel account posted by a tourist on a travel blog, \u00a0June 17, 2008 Shimshal is a very remote Wakhi village whose inhabitants have more common with the people from Afghanistan and Tajikistan than Pakistan. They mostly live from their cattle and due to its remoteness there are just a small &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[4781],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}