Gilgit-Baltistan · 2,900 m
A green river bending through a flat-bottomed valley.
The place
Phander is a lake, a river, a handful of guesthouses and a view that has been on the cover of every Pakistani tourism brochure for thirty years. It earns it.
The valley floor is flat and grazed, which is rare up here, and the Ghizer River runs through it in wide slow bends. The viewpoint above the village looks straight down the length of it.
What people do here
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Twenty minutes above the road, best in late afternoon.
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3,700 m, and the site of the July polo match against Chitral.
Journeys
Ghizer · Gilgit-Baltistan
Six days west from Gilgit along the quietest river in the north — Gahkuch, Khalti, Phander, and the Shandur pass if the road allows.
$560 per person
Next 6 Sep · 4 places left
Before you go