Pakistan has many beautiful valleys, mountain ranges, glaciers, rivers and deserts that provide scenic beauty and tourism opportunities. Some of the major valleys discussed in the document include the Swat, Rama, Kaghan, Naran, Gilgit, Hunza and Palas valleys. The document also describes several mountain ranges like the Himalayas and Hindukush and mountain passes like Khyber, Bolan and Karakoram that connect Pakistan with other countries. Significant glaciers, rivers and deserts of Pakistan are also outlined.

2. Pakistan is blessed country which has everything Rivers, Lakes,
Glaciers, Mountain ranges, Green lands and Deserts.

3. VALLEYS

4. SAWAT VALLEY

5. The Valley of Swat is of great historical
importance including the history of Buddhist
Heritage of Swat, Hindu Shahi Rulers and
Sansakrit, Mahmud Gaznzvi (Advent of
Islam), Yous zai’s arrival.

6. ATTRACTION FOR TOURIST
1. Swat Museum
2. Malam Jaba
3. Marghazar
4. Madyan
5. Minadam
6. Kalam
7. Bahrain

7. RAMA VALLEY
Rama Valley is near Astor of
Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan,
location is surrounded by
beautiful trees of pine, cedar, fir
and juniper, Valley is covered
by snow for seven to eight
months in year and in summer it
becomes lush green and looks
like paradise on the earth. It is
3300 above the sea level.

8. KAGHAN VALLEYS
Naran and Kaghan are small
valleys in the district Hazzar
province of KPK. Kaghan
Valley is named for Kunar
River which flows through
the length of valley, the
Valley boardens about 160
km rising from an elevation
of 2134 feet to its highest
point. Valley is full of natural
loveliness, pleasant weather,
beautiful lakes, streams,
amazing topography, glaciers
are still in unbelievable.

9. NARAN VALLEY
Naran valley is 23 km far
from Kaghan valley; it is
small tourist village open
only during the tourist season
that is from May to
September and rest of the
time is covered with snow.
Lake Saiful Mlook is the
visiting point for all tourists
that is full of natural beauty
of this valley and 6 miles east
of the town.

10. GILGIT VALLEY
Gilgit is the capital of Gilgit Baltistan, it
lies1454 meters above the sea level and 365
km form Rawalpindi and surrounded by
beautiful lakes, mountains ranges, rivers
and glaciers. Gilgit has number of historical
points, at point of history Buddhism was the
way of life in this valley. About 10 km from
Gilgit, there is Buddha sculpture carved out
of stones, Taj Mughal is another monument
which built some 700 years ago and it is
located about 30 km from Gilgit town,
about 40 km from Gilgit another visiting
place is Sher Qila and other places of intrest
are Naltar Valley and Kargah Nala which is
popular for trekking.

11. HUNZA VALLY
Hunza is mountains valley in Gilgit,
Hunza has three parts divided ethnically,
Gojal in this area people speak Wakhi’s,
Central in this area people peak
Brushaski and Shinaki in this area
people speaks Shina language but
Brukshaski is understood throughout
Hunza.
Karimabad offer an awe-inspiring view
of Rkaposhi Peak, the fairy tale like
Castle of Baltit above Karimabad is
landmark of Hunza. Hunza is ideal for
mountaineering, hiking and trekking.

12. PALAS VALLEY
Palas Valley is located in tehsil Palas of district
Kohistan of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and on left bank
of river Indus of Pakistan. It is famous for
beautiful forests, wild life and lush green
mountains despite of its natural beauty it is hidden
for tourists just because non availability of hotels
and accommodation. This place after earthquake of
2005 got special attention from several national
and international NGO’S and they contribute a lot
for promotion of this tourist place. People of Palas
are simple and most of them are uneducated

13. CHITRAL VALLEY AND KALASH VALLEY
The word Chitral is meant as field in local population. It is located in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan with an altitude of 1,128 meters. Chitral is
bounded by Afghanistan on north, south and west .
Chitral is famous for mountaineering, trekking and hiking, unlike rest of
Pakistan Polo is famous game of Chitral and foot ball is also favorite game.
Throughout the year number of sports events held including the Shandour Polo
tournament. Kalash Valley is the main attraction for tourist, according to legends,
Kafir-Kalash is the descendants of the Alexander. Over 3000 Kafir-Kalash
settlers are living in valley; Kalash women wear hand spun wool dyed to black in
winter and black gowns in summers.

14. GLACIERS

15. Glacier is slowly moving mass of snow that is formed by accumulation of snow
into granular ice that remains in motion outward and downward by the force of
gravity and stressed of its accumulative mass. Pakistan’s glacier covers 13,680 sq
km, as a matter of fact 37 percent of KarKaram are is covered by glacier.
Pakistan is the land of glacier, it has long glacier of world like Siachin Glacier,
Batura Glacier, Hispar Glacier, Biafo Glacier, Baltoro Glacier, Yenguta Glacier,
Chiantra Glacier, Tirch Mir Glacier, Chogo Lugma Glacier.

16. SIACHIN GLACIER

17. BALTORO GLACIER
Baltoro Glacier is located in
Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan and it
runs throughout Karakoram
mountain range.Baltoro Glacier
is 57 km and ane of the longest
Glacier outside the Polar Region.
Shigar River which is tributary
of Indus River takes origin from
this Glacier.Several large
tributary Glaciers feed the main
Baltoro Glacier including the
Godwin Austen flowing south
from K2, the Arbuzzi and the
various Gasehrbrum Glaciers
flowing from the Gasherbrum

18. MOUNTAIN RANGES

19. NANGA PARBAT
The Nanga Parbat is combination
of two Sanskrit words Parbat
means rock and Nanga means
necked it mans naked rock, it is
also known as The Killer Mountain
because many climbers died on it
before it. It is the 9th highest
mountain It has three vast faces
The Rakhiot (7000 m), The Diamir
, The Rupal (4,600 m).The Nanga
Parbat peak was discovered by
European in nineteenth century.
The schlagintweit brothers, who
came from Germany in 1854 to
Himalyas and drew panoramic
view which is known to be first
picture of Nanga Parbat,.

20. HIMALAYA RANGES:
Great Himalayas, also
called Higher
Himalayas or Great Himalaya
Range, highest and northernmost
section of
the Himalayan mountain ranges.
It extends southeastward across
northern Pakistan,
northern India, and Nepal. The
Great Himalayas contain many
of the world’s tallest peaks,
including (from west to
east) Nanga
Parbat, Annapurna, Mount
Everest, and Kanchenjunga.

21. HINDUKUSH RANGES:
Its highest peak is Tirich Mir
which is 7,690 metres. Tirich Mir
is the highest mountain of
the Hindu Kush range. It is also
the highest mountain in the world
outside of the Himalayas-
Karakoram range. It was first
climbed in 1950. It is also seen
from Afghanistan.
For crossing the difficult range
like Hindukush Range the
difficult passes like Narohill Pass
and Dorali Pass are to be crossed.
Sawat,Chitral and Dir are located
on these mountains.

22. MOUNTAIN PASSES
Mountain passes connect pakistan with china and afghanistan .Most important
passes are KHYBER PASS, BOLAN PASS, KARAKORAM PASS, GOMAL
PASS, KHOJAK PASS, and TOCHI PASS

23. Khyber Pass is mountainous pass that connect Peshawar (Pakistan) to Jalalabad (Afghanistan).
It is the most renowned pass in Pakistan with the length of 56 km, throughout the history it has
been important trade route between south and central Asia. Khyber Pass is the lowest and
widest of all; its height is about 3517 feet. Today two highways thread their way through the
Khyber Pass one for motor traffic and other for trade purpose. A railway line also travels to the
head of the pass.
KHYBER PASS

24. BOLAN PASS
Bolan Pass is mountainous
and connects Quetta
(Pakistan) with Kandahar
(Afghanistan) and it is about
120km.It is an important
pass connecting Jacobabad
and Sibbi with Quetta.
Traditionally Brauhi and
Balouchi ethnic groups are
in charge to maintain law
and order situation
throughout the pass and they
still preserve their Dravidian
language

25. KARAKORM PASS
Karakoram pass assume to be safe and trouble free because of stable upward slope on both sides
and lack of summer snow and ice much of the year. Karakoram Pass falls on the boundary of
disputed Indian Held Kashmir and China. It plays major role of dispute between Pakistan and
India over the control of Siachin Glacier area west to pass.

26. GOMAL PASS

27. KHOJAK PASS
Khojak Pass is located in the Toba Kakar
range at a height of about 1945 meters
above sea level, it connects Qila Abdullah
with Chaman in Baluchistan province of
Pakistan. Khojak Pass is 153 km away
from Quetta goes and straight to
Afghanistan. Khojak Tunnel was built 115
years ago and it is longest tunnel in
Pakistan. Historically the Achakzai, across
the Khojak mountain have controlled the
smuggling routes around the Khojak Pass.

28. TOCHI PASS
Tochi Pas is located in Khyberpakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan; it connects
Bannu in Pakistan with Ghazni in Afghanistan.

29. INDUS RIVER
Indus River originate from
Tibetan plateau in the
vicinity of Lake
Mansarovar, it courses
through the Ladakh (India)
then enters into Pakistan via
Northern areas and flows all
along he Pakistan and
finally merges into Arabian
Sea. The total length of
river is 3180 km and it is
the longest river of
Pakistan. The Indus River is
lifeline for Pakistan,

30. SUTLEJ RIVER

31. CHENAB RIVER
Chenab River is the major river of Indian Held Kashmir and Punjab. It originates from Himacahal Pardesh of Indian
States and takes sout western direction through Punjab province of the Pakistan. Chenab River merges with the
Sutlej River near Uch Sharif to form Panjnad River and continues to join Indus River at Mithankot.
The total length of the Chenab is approximately 960 km.

32. RAVI RIVER
Ravi River is transboundry river
courses through India and Pakistan.
It is the one of five river which
Punjab its name. It originates from
Indian state of Himachal Pardesh
and courses all around the Indian
and Pakistan border. It joins the
Chenab River in Pakistan and total
length of Ravi River is
approximately 720 km.

33. BEAS RIVER
Beas River originates
from Central
Himachal Pardesh of
India and flows from
India and enters into
Pakistan. Presently no
flowing water but still
evident due to Lakes,
wet land, topographic
or vegetation patterns.

34. JHELUM RIVER
Jhelum River is the largest
River of the Punjab, it
originates from Himachal
Pardesh of India that flows
through India and enters
District Jhelum of Pakistan.
It is the tributary of the
River Chenab. Total length
of River is approximately
813 km

35. DESERTS

36. THAR DESERT
Thar Desert is world’s 7th largest
desert, mostly unpopulated
except small towns of Umer Kot,
Mithi and Mirpurkhas spread
over its vastness. The people live
in round mud walled huts. The
women of the area wear long, full
red or orange colored skirts and
cover their heads with
embroidered or tie-dyed shawls.
Married women encase their arms
with bangles from wrist to
shoulder, widow wear above the
elbow only and singles only
around the wrist..

37. THAL DESERT
This desert is located in the Province of
Punjab on Sindsagar Doab. It is a vast area
between the Jehlum and Indus rivers South
of the Potohar Plateau. It covers an area of
about 190 miles long from North to South
and 70 miles (110 km) wide from East to
West.
It is divided into six districts namely;
Khushab, Mianwali, Layyah, Bahkkar,
Jhang and Muzzafarabad. On the left bank
of Jehlum river is where its part in Jhang
exists.
The main activity in the region is cattle
rearing.

38. CHOLISTAN
Cholistan has population of about
100,000 and belongs to many different
tribes, most of them are settlers of
Baluchistan . The dry bed of the Hakra
River runs througt hthe area, along
which many settlements of the Indus
Valley civilization have been found.
Derawar Fort is the major landmark of
Desert which is 48 km far from Dera
Nawab