Karakoram Highway which connects Pakistan with China is known as the highest international paved road in world and is also reffered to as the “Ninth Wonder of the World”. Karakoram Highway is closed since January 2010 because of the massive landslidings of 15km in Hunza. Karakoram Highway took over 25 years (1959 to 1986) in construction and around 810 Pakistani and 82 Chinese constructors died during the construction. Karakoram Highway also known as Silk Road connects Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan area with Xinjiang, China.

According to the artile of Wikipedia:

The Pakistani section of the highway is 806 km long. It starts from Abbottabad (though N-35 of which KKH is now a part, officially starts from Hassanabdal). The highway meets the Indus River at Thakot, and continues along the river until Bunji, where the Gilgit River joins the Indus River. This is the place where three great mountain ranges meet, the Hindukush, the Himalaya and the Karakoram. The western end of the Himalayas, marked by the 9th highest peak in the world, Nanga Parbat can be seen from the highway. The highway passes through the capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan, Gilgit, and continues to the beautiful valleys of Nagar and Hunza, along the Hunza River. Many of the highest mountains, lakes and glaciers in the Karakoram can be directly seen from the highway in this section. Finally, the highway meets the Pakistan-China border at Khunjerab Pass.

The Chinese Section of the Karakoram Highway follows the north-south Sarykol (‘Yellow Lake’) valley just west of the Tarim Basin, which is barely visible in the satellite image at left. The road from Kashgar goes southwest about 80 km and then turns west to enter the Gez (Ghez) River canyon between Chakragil mountain on the north and Kongur mountain on the south. From the Gez canyon the population becomes Kirgiz. Having climbed up to the valley, the road turns south past Kongur, Karakul Lake and Muztagh Ata on the east. Below Muztagh Ata a new road goes west over the Kulma Pass to join the Pamir Highway in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. The main road continues over a low pass (where the population becomes Tajik) and descends to Tashkurgan. Further south a valley and jeep track leads west towards the Wakhjir Pass to the Wakhan Corridor. Next the road turns west to a checkpost and small settlement at Pirali, and then the Khunjerab Pass, beyond which is Pakistan, the Khunjerab River and Hunza. (In 747 Gao Xianzhi, a Tang general crossed the Broghol Pass into what is now Pakistan – the furthest Chinese penetration in this direction. He was later defeated at the Battle of Talas, and the Chinese withdrew from the region.)

Today my friend Ali Rehman sent me some very cool and interesting photos which were a real delight to see. Photography is an art and sometimes I think you can’t learn how to take photos rather you are born with a natural talent of being a photographer. Since the technology changed and digital photography came into action, the photographers and photo studios got a new life. I’m not a student of photography and I’m not even sure that there is some course or subject related to it, but I have a wild guess that photography is divided into many specific categories like Art Photography, Nature Photography, Portrait Photography, Maternity Photography, Wedding Photography, Wildlife Photography and believe me all the photographers in such fields are specialist and find unique places all over the world and use different angles to shoot. Here are some of the photos I would like to share with you guy :

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