Gilgit

Besham Qila Gilgit Hunza Valley Karimabad Khunjerab Pass Lahore Peshawar

Gilgit

Pakistan

Photos from 1996

 

Gilgit Hotel

 

man from Gilgit

 

dispensing gasoline

 

making a phone call

 

water from the well

Gilgit, town in the Pakistani-held sector of Jammu and Kashmir state in the northwestern Indian subcontinent. Sited on the Gilgit River, the town was once a Buddhist centre, and now, as in earlier days, it serves as a frontier station for local tribal areas. Its economy is mainly agricultural, with wheat, corn (maize), and barley as the main crops. The surrounding region lies in the northern Himalayas and is bordered on the south by the Indus River. It is drained by the Gilgit and Hunza rivers. The main route from Gilgit through the Himalayas to Mānsehra is the Karakoram Highway (completed in 1978). Gilgit is the only town of any size in the region.

Text from Encyclopedia Britannica
 

a woman

 

a man

 

 men of Gilet

 

man crossing a bridge

 

how many men can get on a pickup truck?

 

decorated and loaded for travel

 

an ancient tomb

 

"Churchill" fort
(explored by a young Winston Churchill when he was recuperating
 from a gunshot wound received while on sentry duty)

 

door from an old residence being offered for sale in a bazaar

 

decoration for a festival

 

costume worn on the head

 

a man from Gilgit

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