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	HUNZA - LoveToKnow Article on HUNZA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The two states, which are divided by a river which runs in a bed 600 ft. wide between cliffs 300 ft. high, are inhabited generally by people of the same stock, speaking the same language, professing the same form of the Mahommedan religion, and ruled by princes sprung from the same family.
		Formerly Hunza was the more prominent of the two, because it held possession of the passes leading to the Pamirs, and could plunder the caravans on their way between Turkestan and India.
		Hunza and Nagar were occupied, the chief of Nagar was reinstated on making his submission, and the half-brother of the raja of Hunza was installed as chief in the place of his brother.
	84.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUNZA.htm (319 words)

	THE HUNZA VALLEY - A Bravenet.com Hosted Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During early nineteenth century, Hunza resented Kashmir's attempts to gain control and its ruler's periodically expelled Kashmir garrisons, threatened Gilgit, and politicked with the rulers of Kashgar to the north where the Russians were gaining influence.
		It was built 700 years ago by 300Labourers brought to Hunza in the dowry of the Princess of Baltistan when she married Mir of Hunza.
		This book tells the story of Hunza and the Hunza people -- people who in over two thousand years of almost complete isolation seem to have evolved a way of living, eating and thinking that has substantially lengthened their lifespan and dramatically reduced susceptibility to most of the illnesses to which "civilized" people are prone.
	hunza.bravehost.com (1777 words)

	HISTORY OF HUNZA
		Hunza retained its isolated independence until the British conquered it; on the fruits of caravan raids slave trading and attacking it’s neighbors.
		Hunza was the likely model for the Shangri-La of James Hilton’s novel ‘Lost Horizon’ where he describes it as a country of peace and contentment where the people do not ago.
		The Hunza, Nagar, and Yasin Valleys all have a distinct dialect.
	www.hunza.20m.com /History.htm (2965 words)

	Hunza River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hunza River is the principal river of Hunza, in a region known as the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
		It is joined by the Gilgit River and the Naltar River before it flows into the Indus River.
		The Karakoram Highway crosses the Hunza River near Karimabad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunza_River (102 words)

	North-2
		Today Hunza is a sub division of Gilgit District with 48000 population, It neighbours Chinese Xinjiang Region and Wakhan Corridor in the north.
		The aboriginal Burushaski, spoken in central Hunza, is the main language while in lower Hunza, language spoken is Shina and Wakhi, an archaic Iranian language in upper Hunza or Gojal which is also spoken in parts of Xinjiang, Wakhan and Tajikistan.
		In the southeast is Ladakh and in the west Gigot and Hunza.
	www.geocities.com /irf_ade/North-2.html (831 words)

	Hunza - Northern Areas - Azad Kashmir - Pakistan
		This valley is composed of terraced ridges running from the high pastures down to the river, with extensive irrigation channels bringing meltwater from the glaciers to the terraced fields and villages.
		At an elevation of 2400 meters [8800 feet], the Hunza River drains this valley, connecting to the Gilgit Valley to the south.
		Hunza is on the northern side of the central valley, Nagar is on the southern side.
	www.mango.itgo.com /hunza.html (937 words)

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		During the winter months when the river, but even then there were places where, it had to be hauled along the cliffs, lowered by ropes and steadied by men hanging on to its tail.
		Along the barren wastes of the Hunza gorge you catch in termittent glimpses of mount Rakaposhi at 7,788 metres (25,550ft) the southernmost peak of the Karakorams and perhaps the most photogenic of all the mountains in the northern areas.
		A large round stone with a small hole in the middle is attached to the revolving propeller and slowly turns on another stationary stone the grains are dropped, a few at a time, through the hole and the four dribbles out from between the stones to be collected in a trough.
	www.angelfire.com /nf/passupeakinn/hun.htm (1765 words)

	hunza organic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hunza Valley is in the rugged Karakoram Mountains of Northern Pakistan, at the borders of China and Afghanistan.
		Mulbery from Hunza Valley is known the world over for their distinctively tangy, rich flavors, full of complexity.
		Pomegranate from Hunza Valley is known the world over for their distinctively tangy, rich flavors, full of complexity.
	www.hunzaorganic.com /hunza_organic.htm (814 words)

	Wrench - Wheel of Health - Introduction, Ch1
		It is true that, owing to a western bend to the river, the Hunza do get more sun, but this extra sun would not cover the Hunza superiority to the men of Ghizr and many others who also live on the northern side of their west to east valleys.
		The Hunza originally were brought into contact with the British power owing to their interference with trade, which was by the same British converted from a hindrance to an assistance.
		But the majority of the Hunza in Hunza are distinguished by their fair skins, and they themselves scoff at being of the same blood as the smaller, dark Nagiris.
	journeytoforever.org /farm_library/Wrench_WoH/WoH1.html (5191 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Hunza: Shangri-La of Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To reach Hunza used to be one of the most difficult feats in the world - another feature of Shangri-La - which probably accounts for romantic legends that have grown up about the valley.
		Though the difference in elevation is only 1,525 meters (5,000 feet), the ups and downs through the Hunza river gorge add up to 15,240 meters (50,000 feet), and it once took a good three days on foot.
		Hunza's free education and medical programs, for example, and its wheat subsidies, come from the government, the UN or the Aga Khan.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198301/hunza-shangri-la.of.islam.htm (2523 words)

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		Hussaini Village is situated in Hunza valley, 145 km North of Gilgit and 45 km from Ali Abad in Central Hunza.
		Hunza River flows in to the east while the Karakoram Highway (KKH) passes to its west.
		It is situated on the both banks of Hunza River.
	www.hussaini.20m.com (188 words)

	SERENA HOTELS - Hunza - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hunza valley is located on the left side of Hunza River starting from Hussainabad (50 Kilometer from Gilgit) up to Khunjrab pass, bordering in the north with Peoples Republic of China and in the west with Afghanistan.
		Karimabad is the center of Hunza and located at an elevation of 8000 feet, (400 meter.) from the sea level.
		Hunza has been called roof of the world, heaven on the earth, Shangri-La etc. Nature spreads beautifully throughout the valley with its snow capped peaks to glaciers, river and picturesque landscaping.
	www.serenahotels.com /pakistan/hunza/home.htm (407 words)

	Adventure in Pakistan
		The valley of the Hunza River was supposedly the inspiration for Shangri-la in James Hilton's famous novel Lost Horizon.
		According to local legend, the river water contains traces of gold and has life-prolonging powers, and the people of Hunza are noted for their longevity.
		The Swat River and its tributaries gush through rocky gorges and are particularly known for trout fishing.
	www.geographia.com /pakistan/pak02.htm (774 words)

	Hunza Itinerary
		Chilas is nestled in a lush green plateau and surrounded by rushing torrents with a panoramic backdrop of the colossal Nanga Parbat, the sleeping beauty and the 9th tallest mountain.
		The intrinsic beauty of Hunza and its valley, which is surrounded by the Shangri-la of the Himalayas is perhaps impossible to describe.
		Hunza is God's physician and its air is the precious boon of heaven.
	www.ircworldtours.com /hunzadubai-itinerary.htm (1708 words)

	PakizOnline.Com :: Pakistan :: Pakistan Cities :: Hunza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Hunza is a small town on Karakorum Highway.
		The central Hunza usually known as Karimabad is basically a town of just 6 villages.
		Hunza is undoubtly the Shangri-la of James Hilton's novel The Lost Horizon.
	www.pakizonline.com /hunza.htm (616 words)

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		Lush fields of maize are shaded by orchards weighted with fruit; tourism provides a modest cash flow; as followers of the liberal Ismaili sect of Islam, Hunza girls (unlike many others in Pakistan) receive equal education with boys, and women are not obliged to veil their faces.
		During the 1960s and 70s, the people of Hunza briefly became famous in the West for supposedly living to over 100 years of age, sustained by pure, 2,400 metre air and (it was said) an equally pure vegetarian diet - featuring, presumably, endless servings of Hunza Pie.
		If the "Immortality through Hunza Pie" sect fixated upon this valley, so too did the "Shangri-La-ists", proclaiming this to be the prototype happy kingdom of James Hilton's 1933 novel, "Far Horizons".
	www.travelintelligence.net /wsd/articles/art4print_2140.html (1103 words)

	World and I Magazine - America: Fundamentally Religious
		Karimabad extends two thousand feet up from the River Hunza to the Ultar glacier, and there is only foot traffic in the upper reaches of the village.
		Hunza, Nagar, and Baltistan, the Northern Territories of Pakistan, were ruled for centuries by mirs, rulers of Persian origin.
		The fort was the residence of the last mir of Hunza until 1960.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/highway/highway.html (2655 words)

	Hunza -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The town, situated on the west bank of the Hunza River, was a stopping place for travelers descending from the Hindu Kush mountains into the Vale of Kashmir.
		It is situated in the Karakoram Range in a narrow valley on the Gilgit River at its confluence with the Hunza River and about 20 miles (32 km) upstream from its confluence with the Indus River.
		The Kunluns form a part of that region in Central Asia in which there is only internal drainage, associated mainly with the Tarim and Tsaidam basins to the north and the basins of the Plateau of Tibet to the south.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9041588 (559 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Indus River [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Indus River in northern Pakistan, near the rock Aornus.
		The remainder of its route to the sea is in plains of the Punjab and Sind, and the river becomes slow-flowing and highly braided.
		The Indus River Dolphin, modern genetic studies show, lives both in the Indus River and in the Ganges.
	encyclozine.com /Indus_River (410 words)

	Northern Areas Development Gateway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of the earliest settlements of Hunza valley.
		Ganish village is located on flat land near the Hunza River and the Hunza hill at an altitude of 7,500 ft. Though it has several new Khuns (clusters), Bitan Khun, Suni Khun, Buldus, Ganish Shukonoshal, Chaboikushal and Tsill Ganish, Ganish Khun is the oldest.
		The original layout of Ganish Khun is mostly intact, even after damage caused by a flood in 1960 and the construction of the KKH through it in the 1970's.
	www.northernareas.org.pk /20.htm (353 words)

	Articles - Indus River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The ultimate source of the Indus is actually in Tibet; it begins at the confluence of the Sengge River and Gar River that drain the Nganglong Kangri and Gangdise Shan ranges.
		The Indus is one of the few rivers in the world that exhibit a tidal bore.
		The Indus River Dolphin is a sub-species of Dolphins found only in the Indus River.
	www.oldion.com /articles/Indus_valley (302 words)

	Under Construction
		From Gilgit to Hunza (Karimabad 2500m), we pass Gilgit, the only market town for hundred of kilometers and is busy center for Pakistan’s north and trade with China.
		Karimabad (2500m), the capital of Hunza is the only town in the world, where you may view five peaks above 7000m in all four directions.
		Hunza presents rewarding and varied biking terrain, and we take numerous excursions of the main road, often on wild jeep routes and superb single trek.
	s89565829.onlinehome.us /np/cycle_tours.htm (2113 words)

	Gojal - Upper Hunza Valey - Northern Areas - Pakistan
		Crossing to the west side of the Hunza River, we came across a puzzling sight.
		This blocked the river for three years, forcing hardship on people to the north including catastrophic flooding of much of Pasu village.
		Historically associated with Hunza Valley, this area holds much in common with the rest of Hunza while being ethnically distinct.
	www.mango.itgo.com /hunza2.htm (983 words)

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		Hunza is situated 112 km of north of Gilgit on the west bank of the Hunza river.
		The people of Hunza are well known for their longevity which they attribute to their diet.
		Hunza is accessible by road from Gilgit (112 km), which is connected by air and Karakoram Highway with Islamabad.
	garikhan.freeservers.com (665 words)

	Pakistan Travel Web > Destinations > Mountains & Valleys > Hunza Valley
		The Nubra, Braldu, Hushe and Saltoro rivers are born in the glacier-laced Karakorum; the Shyok River encircles the eastern flanks of the range; but only the Hunza River actually cuts from north to south completely through the Karakorum Range.
		The Hunza River has its origin in name at the juncture of the Kilik and Khunjerab nalas, some 100 miles from the river's mouth near Gilgit.
		Originally, this was used as the residence of the Mirs (the title of the former rules) of Hunza.
	www.travel.web.pk /destinations/mountains_valleys/hunza_valley.asp (710 words)

	North Pakistan + Western China: a 1999 trip report
		The river was burbling away quite noisily: here it was hundreds of metres across with broad mud/gravel flats (photo).
		Gojal is in the upper Hunza valley from Gulmit to the Chinese and Afghanistan borders, and the Shimshal and Chupursan valleys; also in upper Yarkhun valley of Chitral, and upper Ishkoman valley.
		We crossed the Hunza at the Danyore bridge and reached Gilgit along the north bank of the Gilgit river.
	danny.oz.au /travel/1999/pakistan (19621 words)

	Randy Johnson's Pakistan Photo Gallery -- Page 3 of 6
		Right: Once into the Hunza River valley, rock-slides and washouts are regular delays along the highway.
		Left: Up the Hunza Valley, the green "valleys" are really the "deltas" of the glacial flows that feed into the Hunza River.
		Baltit Fort is the historic seat of the Mir of Hunza, ruler of the entire area.
	ease.com /~randyj/pakfoto3.htm (625 words)

	Rafting Gilgit River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In no part of the world is there such a large number of high mountains in such a confined, space i.e five peaks over 8000 meters and 108 higher 7000 meters in a radius of 188 kms.
		Hidden amid this net work of snow capped peaks and striated glaciers and narrow mountain valleys awe inspiring river system have prompted experts in the field to describe Pakistan as white water sports most exciting frontier in the world.
		The Swat river, Gilgit river, Hunza river, Kunar river, Neelam river, Chitral river and Indus river.
	www.alpine.com.pk /rafting.html (193 words)

	About Batura
		The Batura glacier terminus in both well known and of considerable local significance because it descends so close to the Hunza River.
		Historically it is known to have occupied a position either close to, or across, the Hunza River and may even have created a temporary dam in the past, with resultant flood damage to the villages of Passu and Hussaini.
		Since that time it has again tended to advance steadily and is at present 700 m from the Hunza River(.
	www.baturasouth.20m.com /about.html (411 words)

	Peshawar Travelogue, Hunza valley- Karimabad
		Hunza valley is surrounded by snow peaked range, namely the Ultar peak I and II, Golden peak, Rakaposhi range and Lady Finger, with rapid hunza river flourishing the valley with green lush and Apricot, Apples, Peach, Mulberry, Cherry are in abundance together with vegetables and birds with fl and blue wings chirping away...
		that's why the hunza food is plain but tasty as they rely on the natural taste.
		Still under recent conservation process-- with some watch towers (Hunza used to fight with the neighbouring Nagar Valley people), swimming pool, underground refrigerator (cooled by runnning river water underneath it) and a old mosque.
	www.trekshare.com /index.cfm?p1=48&journalid=11415 (588 words)

	Hunza Valley - Central
		This rock is located close to the river, behind which can be seen [vaguely] Altit fort many thousand feet up.
		View of terraced fields, with canals prepared so that they can be watered from the irrigation canals which cover the entire settled area of the valley.
		While in Hunza, we stayed in Altit, to the west of the `central valley'.
	www.mango.itgo.com /hunza_central.htm (677 words)

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