Welcome To Pakistan
The Land Of Adventure and Nature
From the mighty stretches of the Karakorum’s (The Karakoram or Karakorum is a
large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with
the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It
is the second highest mountain range in the world, and part of the complex of
ranges including the Pamir Mountains, the HinduKush (The HinduKush range has numerous
high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point in the HinduKush being TirichMir or Terichmir at 7,708 metres (25,289 ft) in the Chitral District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) and the Himalayan Mountains.
The Karakoram has eight summits over 7,500 m (24,600 ft) height, with four of
them exceeding 8,000 m (26,000 ft): K2 the second highest peak in the world at
8,611 m (28,251 ft).) in the North to the vast alluvial delta of the Indus River in the South,
Pakistan remains a land of high adventure and nature. Trekking, mountaineering,
white water rafting, wild boar hunting, mountain and desert jeep safaris, camel
and yak safaris, trout fishing and bird watching are a few activities, which
entice the adventure and nature lovers to Pakistan.
Pakistan is endowed with a rich and
varied flora and fauna. The high
Himalayas, the Karakoram, and the Hindukush ranges with their alpine
meadows and permanent snow line, coniferous forests down the sub-mountain
scrub, the vast Indus plain merging into the great desert, the coastline, and
wetlands, all offer a remarkably rich variety of vegetation and associated wildlife
including avifauna, both endemic and migratory. Ten of 18 mammalian orders are
represented in Pakistan with species ranging from the world's smallest
surviving mammals, the Mediterranean Pigmy Shrew, to the largest mammal ever
known; the blue whale.
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