KhalidJam supported by his shovel in the shade of a mulberry tree bursting with ripe black 
admires the immense green valley of Hunza. It does not seem to tire of this view at 2000m above the River. Like every night since the beginning of spring, Using his shovel, he diverts water from canals to irrigate his fields, then the work and like many residents of Karimabad and Alti, he sits down to watch this extraordinary landscape of gigantic mountains with three peaks over 7500m ice ignite the sun and mountains of sand and rocks and finally to green fields and orchards restanque irrgués by a multitude of channels that divert water from glaciers overlook the Hunza River. 
The show for travelers arriving from China is even more magical! After leaving Lake Karakul, the along the KKH Musztagh Ata then passes through a large plate before rising again towards the neck of Khunjerab to over 4700 m altitude that Alexander had borrowed, then the merchant caravans with Central Asia and South Asia. This is the side pakistannais comes the legend of the Karakorum Highway. After the Chinese border, the road descends and travels deep gorges to cross
chain Karakorum. It is impressive, the cliffs are gigantic (Unfortunately the pictures are bad), the mountains behind the colossal cliffs are covered with huge glaciers. Everything is exaggerated. Landslips rocks and damaged the road and the bus trying to slow speeds on their way. We could not reach Sost by the same bus, the road being cut by a landslide with a lake creates insurmountable. It is on foot with a Japanese, a Japanese of 70 years and two very friendly to Pakistan as we continued our journey and have recovered another bus a few miles below. Chinese traders responsible for huge bags, they had recourse to the holders from Pakistan to earn a few rupees. It took almost three hours to leave, and another hour to get our two Pakistani friends who had left surrounded by water while watching the tractors clearing the road. Has arrived Sost They invited us to lunch, Pakistani cuisine is delicious! After this incredible scenery, mountains appear and depart from the Hunza Valley with its stone villages and rolling green hills. The first
Passu village, a haven of peace near the river
overlooked by magnificent mountains that rise and brown ochres vertically above the water. The people of Passu are Ismailis, their manners are less rigid, women are smiling, their veils over their acts shawl of headgear. They are graceful. As in Karimabad, there reigns a sort of easy living, these people are courteous and civilized. The village is filled with mulberry
and cherry trees, the children offer fruit bursting with sugar. These men and women with clear skin, sometimes with blue eyes and blond hair are Tajik and speak a dialect close to the fa.
The treks take us to Passu suspension bridges in the middle of villages and fields or to the largest glacier in the world after the poles, the Batura glacier 60km long.
The trek from Karimabad us climb nearly 1800m in altitude to arrive at the foot of Mount Ultar and surrounded by three other peaks over 7500m. The trek will last from Minapin last village in the Hunza Valley, already manners harden and women seem to disappear. The trek takes us to the foot of Rakaposhi, mountain snow and ice, without doubt one of the most beautiful mountains of the Karakorum.
I leave for Gilgit, the last stage of the KKH and starting point for the base camp of Mount Nanga Parbir, 8125m and then to Chitral and Kalash valley.
This road will remain among the most impressive landscapes of my trip and the Hunza Valley as one of the milder regions.
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