7 Wonders of Pakistan
Pakistan, a land full of adventure, nature, an enriching history and a
heartening culture, stands with an unexplored and an endearing tourist
industry. From the mighty Karakorum mountain ranges to the sketchy
plains of Sindh, Pakistan attributes all the natural attractions that
can make your tourist experience a remarkable one. Be it trekking,
mountaineering, white water rafting, mountain and desert jeep safaris,
wild boar hunting, , trout fishing, camel and yak safaris or getting
indulged in cultural and traditional practices of beautiful ethnic
backgrounds.
K2 (also known as Choghori . It is located on the border between Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. and China.With a peak elevation of 8,611 m (28,251 feet), K2 is the highest point in Pakistan.
K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the extreme difficulty of ascent and the second-highest fatality rate among the eight thousanders. One in every four people who have attempted the summit have died trying.It is more difficult and hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is usually climbed from the Pakistani side.
The Trango Towers are a group of tall granite spikes located on the north side of the Baltoro Glacier, in Baltistan, a region of the Gilgit-Baltistan territory in northern Pakistan. They are part of the Baltoro Muztagh, a sub-range of the Karakoram range. The Towers offer some of the largest cliffs and most challenging rock climbing in the world. The highest point in the group is the summit of Great Trango Tower at 6,286 m (20,608 ft). The east face of the Great Trango Tower features the world's greatest nearly vertical drop.
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved
international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the
Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693
metres (15,397 ft). It
connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit–Baltistan and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa regions and also serves as a popular tourist attraction. Due to its
high elevation and the difficult conditions in which it was constructed, it is
also referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World.
The K.K.H. passes through a scenic wonderland. The landscape changes almost after every mile. Along the road there are scores of sites and scenes which deserve careful study and observation and there are things which cannot be described in words alone. Above all a drive from Islamabad to Khunjrab is a rare and life long experience which nobody can forget after going through it once.
Ranikot is the most talismanic wonder of Pakistan and Sindh
Province. Visible from five kilometers, its massive undulating walls twist and
dip over the hills. With the circumference of about twenty kilometers, its
walls, built with dressed sandstone and reinforced with 45 bastions along the
outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All
modified through the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps
makes it the largest fort in the world.
1- K2
K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the extreme difficulty of ascent and the second-highest fatality rate among the eight thousanders. One in every four people who have attempted the summit have died trying.It is more difficult and hazardous to reach the peak of K2 from the Chinese side; thus, it is usually climbed from the Pakistani side.
2 . Trango Towers
3. Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved
international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the
Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693
metres (15,397 ft). It
connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit–Baltistan and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa regions and also serves as a popular tourist attraction. Due to its
high elevation and the difficult conditions in which it was constructed, it is
also referred to as the "Eighth Wonder of the World.
The Karakoram Highway, also known as the Friendship
Highway in China, was built by the governments of Pakistan and China, it was
started in 1959 and was completed in 1979 (open to the public since 1986) about
810 Pakistanis and about 200 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in
landslides and falls, while building the highway. The Chinese workers who died
during the construction are buried in the Chinese cemetery in Gilgit. The route
of the KKH traces one of the many paths of the ancient Silk Road.
The K.K.H. passes through a scenic wonderland. The landscape changes almost after every mile. Along the road there are scores of sites and scenes which deserve careful study and observation and there are things which cannot be described in words alone. Above all a drive from Islamabad to Khunjrab is a rare and life long experience which nobody can forget after going through it once.
The Karakoram Highway known as K.K.H. has
been cut through the highest and the mightiest mountains of the world,
that is, the Himalayas and the Karakorams. This Highway
connects Pakistan with the People's Republic of China via Khunjrab pass
(16,200 feet above sea level) beyond which lies the sprawling
Xinjiang province of China. It has, thus opened a passage through the
isolated mountainous regions which remained a cultural backyard of
humanity for millennia. This highway has been described as the eighth
wonder of the world by hundreds of travelers and beyond any doubt, it is the marvel of modern
engineering.
The brave road builders of China and Pakistan took twenty
years to complete this 774 km. long highway which has been stretched
over the hills, gorges; valleys and rivers. It was not easy to conceive
and to execute
such a Herculean project particularly in such a monstrous region. No
wonder it had been considered impossible by some of the world's
biggest consortiums. In fact the construction of the highway involved
about thirty million cubic yards of rock blasting and earthwork, over
eight thousand tons of explosives and eighty thousand tons of cement and so many other material sand that too in thousands of tons.
4. Skardu Cold Desert
The marvel of the Cold Desert of Skardu is world known. Surrounded by
sky high mountains at an elevation of more than 10000 feet this dessert
constitutes as the highest desert area of the world. The Cold Dessert of
Skardu is surrounded by valleys and is covered with Alpine Trees. This
is one of the most beautiful tourist attractions of Pakistan and is
easily accessible
5 .Ranikot Fort
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
This world's largest fort is
located in Jasmshoro Distirct of Sindh, Pakistan, at a distance of 90 km from
the Hyderabad city. This is also known as great wall of Sindh. Its wall are
made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone, with an average height of 6 meters.
Ranikot is the most talismanic wonder of Pakistan and Sindh
Province. Visible from five kilometers, its massive undulating walls twist and
dip over the hills. With the circumference of about twenty kilometers, its
walls, built with dressed sandstone and reinforced with 45 bastions along the
outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All
modified through the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps
makes it the largest fort in the world.
Most
of the twenty six kilometers long wall is made of natural cliffs and mountains
which at places rise as high as two thousand feet above sea level. Only about
8.25 km portions of its wall are man-made, built with yellow sandstone.
This was first measured on foot by Badar Abro along with local guideSadiq
Gabol. As one enters the fort, one can find hills, valleys, streams,
ditches, ponds, pools, fossils, building structure, bastions, watchtowers,
ammunition depots, fortresses - all inside Ranikot, adding more to its beauty
and mystery. A spring emerging from an underground water
source near the Mohan Gate is named as 'Parryen jo Tarr' (the spring of
fairies).
According
to a tale told by the local inhabitants, fairies come from far and wide on the
Ponam Nights (full moon) to take bath at this spring near 'Karo Jabal'! Splashing
sounds of water falling on the rocks can be heard at another spring, Waggun
jo Tarr or "the Crocodile Spring", named so as
crocodiles once lived there.
Within
Ranikot, there are two more fortresses, Meeri and Shergarh, each have five
bastions. Meerikot takes its name from the word
'Mir' meaning top (for instance the top of a hill, chief of any Baloch tribe,
etc.). M.H. Panhwar (a Sindhologist) disagrees upon the name's history being
related to Mirs of Sindh, stating that "Of two forts inside the main Rani
Kot fort, the lower one is called Miri and is a word used
in Seistan for small fortress. It has nothing to do with Mirs of Sindh. Both
the main Ranikot and the inner Meerikot have similar entrances - curved,
angulated with a safe tortuous path. From the military point of view, Meerikot
is located at a very safe and central place in the very heart of the Ranikot
with residential arrangements including a water-well.
6. Kheura Salt Mines
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf
The Great Wall (Rani Kot) of Sindh, Pakistan also recognized as Deware Sindh
is the world’s largest fort with a perimeter of about 26 km or 16
miles. It is located in the Kirthar Range about 30 km southwest of Sann,
in Jamshoro District. It is approximately 90 km north of Hyderabad.
It has an approximate diameter of 6 km. Its walls are on the average 6
meters high and are made of gypsum and lime cut sandstone and total
circumference is about 20 km. It was initially constructed for bow and
arrow warfare but later on expanded to withstand firearms.
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf6. Mohenjodero and Harrappa7. Kheura Salt Mines
Ranikot is the most supernatural wonder of Sindh. Viewable from five kilometers away its massive rolling walls twist and dip over the hills. Its walls, built with clad sandstone and toughened with 45 bastions along the outer wall, of which 7 are rectangular and the remaining are round. All modified throughout the ages to accommodate the use of gunpowder, this perhaps makes it the largest fort in the world.
- See more at: http://www.tourisminpakistan.com/sindh/hyderabad/ranikot/#sthash.T20LcwGC.dpuf6. Mohenjodero and Harrappa7. Kheura Salt Mines
Situated at the foothills of the Salt Range, Khewra Salt Mines are the
oldest in the salt mining history of the sub-continent. Salt occurs in
the form of an irregular dome like structure. There are seven thick salt
seams with cumulative thickness of about 150 meters. At places rock
salt is 99% pure. Salt is transparent, white, pink, reddish to
beef-color red. In certain horizons it is crystalline. Inside the mine
there are beautiful alternate bands of red and white color salt. There
are 18 working levels. Cumulative length of all drivages is more than 40
km.
7. Mohenjodaro and Harrapa
The name of Mohenjo-daro is widely recognized as one of the most important early cities of South Asia and the Indus valley civilization and yet most publications rarely provide more than a cursory overview of this important site.
Built around 2600 BC it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus valley civilization and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, contemporaneous with the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Crete.
Mohenjo-daro was abandoned in the 19th century BCE, and was not
rediscovered until 1922. Significant excavation has since been conducted
at the site of the city, which was designated a UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE in 1980.The site is currently threatened by erosion and improper restoration.
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