#Hunza Foods

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According to some sources the Hunza people can even live up to 180 years

Doctors who examined the Hunza population became fascinated by the fact that the older generations of people were all healthy, vital and disease-free. These people do not get cancer at all.

The Hunza people consume mainly raw plant based food, which mainly consists of fruits and vegetables, as well as grains, their diet is devoid of meat, but they also consume goat milk and cheese.

During the summer they eat raw fruits and vegetables, and during the winter they eat dried apricots, goat's cheese, and sprouted grains.

They use what is available to them, there is also a period of about 3 months when they do not eat anything, but only drink juice from apricots, this is very important fast for them, just as fasting is important in some other cultures.

Due to the circumstances and conditions in which they live, they have received an ideal diet for their health. They bathe in ice water. They give birth to children even up to the age of 65. They are eat raw plant food dominated by fruits and vegetables, and almost all undergo a period of 3 months fast.

This clean and healthy environment certainly contribute to the fact that these people look youthful. 🤔

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The Local Cuisine of Hunza Valley, Pakistan

The local cuisine of Hunza Valley is known for its simplicity, healthfulness, and unique flavors. The region's cuisine largely reflects the agricultural practices and natural resources of the area. Here are some popular dishes and ingredients you can find in the traditional cuisine of Hunza Valley:

1. Chapshuro: A savory meat-filled bread, typically made with minced meat (often mutton or beef) and spices. It is cooked in a traditional tandoor (clay oven) and served hot.

2. Harissa: A traditional porridge-like dish made with whole wheat and meat (usually chicken or lamb). The meat is slow-cooked with spices and then mixed with wheat to create a thick and hearty dish.

3. Momo (Mamtu): Dumplings filled with minced meat (mutton, beef, or chicken) and vegetables. They are usually steamed and served with a spicy tomato-based dipping sauce.

4. Dirham Fitti: A popular breakfast dish made with wheat dough that is rolled and cooked on a griddle. It is usually served with butter or ghee and accompanied by local cheese or honey.

5. Apricot-Based Dishes: Hunza Valley is famous for its apricots, and the fruit is used in various dishes. Apricot oil is often used in cooking, and dried apricots are used in stews and desserts. One popular apricot dish is "Ghulay Poot," a sweet and sour apricot soup.

6. Local Cheese: Hunza Valley is known for its fresh and organic dairy products. One of the most famous cheeses is "Chhurpi," a hard cheese made from yak's milk. It is often served as a snack or grated over dishes.

7. Butter Tea: A traditional hot beverage made by boiling tea leaves with water, salt, and butter. It is a staple drink in the region and is believed to provide warmth and energy in the cold mountainous climate.

8. Walnut Cake: Hunza Valley is abundant in walnut orchards, and walnuts are often used in desserts. Walnut cake is a popular sweet treat made with ground walnuts, sugar, and eggs.

9. Local Bread: The bread in Hunza Valley is typically made with whole wheat flour and baked in traditional tandoors. "Skit" is a popular type of bread, which is thin and unleavened.

These are just a few examples of the delightful cuisine you can experience in the Hunza Valley. The focus on fresh, locally sourced ingredients, and the simplicity of the recipes make the food of Hunza Valley both delicious and healthy.

Planning a trip of Hunza Valley, Pakistan with Adventure Seekers Club sounds exciting. The trip can be customized based on your preferences, group size, and the availability of activities.

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Hey! Where did you visit in Pakistan? I'm going to live in Turkey for a few months next year and I have family friends visiting Karachi at the same time.. they invited me to fly there to meet up with them (they're originally from Karachi so familiar and can show me around) so I was thinking about doing that + being solo there for a bit. But I'm not very familiar culturally, I'm in my mid 20s and female, and my family friends were happy to invite me but sort of perplexed by my wanting to and essentially said it would be really challenging for any US tourist. I've been India before and that point will have also lived in Morocco for a few months.. but they have me feeling hesitant about it.. just wondering what your experience was like

Hey! This trip I was in Karachi, Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the Afghan border, but I've also done Lahore, Mohenja-daro, Balochistan and also to Wagah for the border ceremony! Gilgit and Hunza Valley are on my list. I lived in Karachi for several years and graduated high school there, and my parents still live and work there, so I'm very culturally competent and my listening comprehension for Urdu is, like, passable enough especially once I've been back in the country for a few days; all this to say, my experience there is definitely different than yours will be! If you have spent significant time in Muslim-majority countries like Turkey and Morocco, and also have been to India, I think you are more likely to have a comfortable time than most. You'll frankly probably land and think, yeah this feels like South Asia but Muslim, and you'll have a good grasp pretty much right away.

Many people will stare at you. Many people will talk about you openly. Many people will ask for pictures with you or take pictures of you WITHOUT asking (for the record, I say yes to women and children and no to men without women or children around, because men will touch you in ways I KNOW are culturally taboo while taking a photo). There's no queuing culture and can be a lot of shoving. Traffic will feel tremendously hazardous. There are not very many women out and about in most places, especially outside of cities. Pakistan is very poor and petty theft is very common. You have probably experienced all of these things before and will be totally fine! People are very genuinely excited to meet you and are hugely hospitable. It can be a lot of fun and a really wonderful experience depending on your own risk tolerance.

I will say, having lived there, there just isn't a ton to do in Karachi besides eat. It's a desert on the ocean. It's incredibly hot, it's dirty, it's infrastructure is old and during monsoon sewage washes back onto the street. It's not a tourist city at all. If your family friends live in Defense, it will feel wealthier and more westernized, and if they live in KDA or Clifton, it will feel a little less so.

In Karachi I would suggest: The Mohatta Palace Museum, Empress Market (for the bazaar experience), one of those good barbecue places on the beach, Jinnah's tomb, renting a beach hut on one of the semi-private beaches for a day (and riding a camel or convincing a performer to let you hold a mongoose), Javed Nihari and if you do absolutely no other street food (which will often make you sick tbf), you HAVE to go to Yusuf Kebab and get a bun kebab special.

In Karachi I would AVOID: going to the public beach. Do NOT do this, if your family friends are Pakistani they might not guess how bad it gets, but do NOT go to the public beach as a foreign woman. I have been three times and was sexually assaulted all three times, and have never had it happen to me anywhere else in Pakistan. You draw an immediate big crowd and it gets really dodgy.

As for solo traveling, I have solo traveled in Lahore and it was great! It's feels like a grand Mughal city, a beautiful blend of architecture, historical sites, good food, and juuust enough tourist infrastructure to be accessible. I stayed in a hostel and had an amazing time, never felt unsafe, and liked some of my roommates so much we went out together several times. Islamabad is beautiful and very safe (crawling with foreigners) but it doesn't feel like the rest of Pakistan at all, and it can be really expensive. It's the only place I would suggest going into the mountains as a solo traveler (The Monal is an amazing mountain top restaurant) although I hear Hunza Valley can be okay during tourist season. Mohenja-daro would be totally fine but I don't know if they're open since the flooding earlier this year. You could do Wagah as a day trip from Lahore but it's a big time suck and there's nothing to do besides the very short border ceremony. I would definitely NOT go to KPK or Balochistan as a solo female.

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TOP PACKAGES TO HUNZA VALLEY 2024

Hunza, the other name of Kanjut, is located in the gilgit baltistan region of Pakistan that is northern side of Pakistan. Have you ever experienced the visit to hunza valley in your life?. if not, you are missing the major part of your life. Hunza valley, the most beautiful spot in Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan and also opposite to Nagar valley. You will always find hunza valley at the top list of amazing destinations in Pakistan tours. Tourist really likes the vibe of hunza valley. Although hunza is not a very modern equipped valley, it is very close to its old cultures and norms, but still it has always the perfect spot of tourism for tourists.

Hunza valley is located in the core heart of huge mountain ranges of karakoram. Hunza valley is the perfect destination for the people who wants all in one facility,wants to enjoy the adventure during their trip while having he beautiful sights. Hunza valley tour packages are the most valuable packages in whole Pakistan. Even people from abroad avail these packages and experience the beautiful valley of Pakistan. Having a trip to any place is always a best thing to do but having a trip with beautiful meadows, huge mountains, hearing the sounds of splashing water from the rocks,is the most amazingly managed trip you will ever imagine in your life. And this kind of tour will be given to you by North gateway. We bring you the most fantastic hunza tour packages of 2024. that will include all the tourism spots in hunza valley along with the other facilities.

You don’t have to worry about any other thing, like you can get 1 week tour if you want also you will get just 1 day tour. We have given many options to tourist, they can choose with their own choices. Even you will get specific  destination tour in hunza valley like 1 day trip to nanga parbat base camp. Now lets see what are the top tour packages of hunza valley 2024.

Table of Content

Brief introduction

Valuable packages of hunza valley

Fantastic hunza tour packages by north gateway

Top tour packages of hunza valley

ADVENTOROUS TOUR PACKAGE 2024

FAMILY TOUR PACKAGE 2024

CUSTOMIZABALE TOUR PACKAGES 2024

1 DAY TOUR PACKAGE TO HUNZA VALLEY

KARAKORAM TOUR PACKAGE 2024

HUNZA VALLEY TOUR PACKAGE BY AIR

HONEYMOON TOUR PACKAGES 2024

Why chooses hunza valley package

Weather condition in hunza valley

Top attractions of hunza valley

Things to do in hunza valley

Conclusion

FAQs

TOP HUNZA VALLEY TOUR PACKAGES 2024

Hundreds of hunza valley tour packages are available in internet either from Lahore, Karachi , Islamabad or any other city. All the packages comes with different destinations or different facilities. Even when you google hunza valley tour packages you will also get season wise tour packages like autumn hunza valley tour package, winter hunza valley tour package. All those packages have their own specification and importance. Lets get to the top tour packages of hunza valley 2024:

ADVENTOROUS TOUR PACKAGE 2024

This tour package will be of about 3 days with the cost of Rs.   Per person. In this package different adventurous sites will be includes like karakoram range , glaciers. Even they will give you the chance to do different thrilling activities like

Exploring the back streets of hunza valley through cycle

Climbing the stairs of ondara poygah

Crossing the most dangerous Hussaini bridge

Going for a hike on huge rocky mountains of hunza valley

Along with all these you will get many other facilities like rent a car, accommodation service free of cost food, free photography by professionals and some of other basic facilities for trip.

FAMILY TOUR PACKAGE 2024

This is the most important tour package. Everyone wants to enjoy the beauty of hunza valley with their families or friends. And we have given you the opportunity to get the most comfortable tour to hunza with your family in very reasonable price in Family tour package to hunza.

Also north gateways team will always make sure to make your family trip monumental. You will be given all the traditional food of hunza valley to give your tongue a new taste that will be unforgettable. Different fun activities will be done by the family to enjoy their time in beautiful valley of Kashmir.

CUSTOMIZABALE TOUR PACKAGES 2024

These packages are little bit expensive but they are the most lovable packages of 2024. as in these packages tourist will add the destinations of their choice. In fact this whole package will include all the places, food, activities chosen by the tourist.

Customizable hunza valley tour packages 2024 will be of 8 days package with all the facilities in good manner. This package will cost a person Rs.  

1 DAY TOUR PACKAGE TO HUNZA VALLEY

This is the smallest tour package in which you will only have 1 day to spend in hunza valley. But north gateways will make sure that you see every possible sight of hunza valley that will make you come again in the beautiful lush green meadows of hunza valley.

1 day hunza tour package of one person will cost you about Rs.

KARAKORAM TOUR PACKAGE 2024

In hunza valley, you will get to see the giant mountain ranges of karakoram. Although you will get the sight of it in all the packages of hunza valley. But this specific package will be alone for karakoram mountain ranges. In this you will get the chance to go close t karakoram ranges and feel the heavy rocks of mountain ranges. Even it will be the possibility that you will get the chance to hike through karakoram mountain range. This will be short trip of 1- 2 days that will cost a person about Rs. 

HUNZA VALLEY TOUR PACKAGE BY AIR

You will get many by road hunza valley tour packages, but have also another facility of by air hunza valley. Though this package will be little bit costly but it will include the journey from your home doorstep to your home doorstep. Even air tickets will be included in the package. You will get the most amazing chance to see the beauty of Kashmir from above it. People dies to get this chance. You will get PIA service from Karachi Lahore or Islamabad.

HONEYMOON TOUR PACKAGES 2024

Hunza valley is also the favorite spot for newly wed couples because of its scenic nature. Hunza valley is one of the best spot to spend  most beautiful time of your life with your life. Everything in this package will be arranged according to couples, you will get your privacy or also you can do different activities with your partner like boating, eye sighting, trying delicious food of hunza valley, getting their cultural dresses and jewellery.

WHY CHOOSING HUNZA VALLEY TOUR PACKAGE

Hunza valley is a famous tourist destination in Pakistan. People from other countries visit this place because of its beautiful lands that are covered with lush meadows in summers and it will be a whole different valley in winters, completely covered with the packs of ice or snow. Hunza tour packages are most famous among tourist because of :

Scenic land

Nature vibes

Cultural richness

Unique lakes

Festivals in hunza

For better photography

To get relax

Amazing hospitality

 WEATHER CONDITIONS IN HUNZA VALLEY

In the days of shiny sun, July to august, tourist might experience the smooth weather in hunza valley of gilgit baltistan. The shiny rays  from sun striking the huge rocks and refracting on the water of lakes will let you see the whole new world lies in the small valley of gilgit baltistan.

If we talk about the icy weather of hunza valley, December to February. These months will allow you to get the captivating chilly vibe of hunza valley. Temperature condition lies from -10 degrees to -5 degrees in winters that will turn the whole valley into land of ice.

TOP DESTINATIONS IN HUNZA VALLEY

You will get the whole detail about the attractions in hunza valley in top places to visit in hunza valley or you can also search tour packages to hunza valley 2024. let me tell you briefly about the places that requires a must visit.

Passu cones (Passu glaciers)

Hussaini bridge;2

Shimshal valley

Attabad lake

 eagles nest

Baltit fort

THINGS TO DO IN HUNZA VALLEY

Get a tour of Altit baltit fort ( historical icon of hunza valley will tell you more antique history of hunza valley)

Never miss out the delicious mouth watering dishes of hunza valley

Get a cycle ride (explore the valley through back streets on cycle ride)

See the wild life of hunza valley ( hunza villages or kunjerab national park will give you the sight of different animals)

Hussaini bridge (don’t forget to cross the Hussaini bridge and take a dangerous risk of your life)

Paddling or boating in borith lake

Trekking on the peaks of mountains

CONCLUSION

Top hunza valley tour packages 2024 is here with many categories, you can get one of your choice. In all the packages you will get all facilities like accommodation, food, internet service and other basic services. Hunza valley is considered as the heaven on earth and who does not want to see the heaven while living their life. Although the place is very easy to go but still if you are not fully prepared, you might face different issues. So it is best to first check the complete tour guide to hunza valley.

FAQs

What are the routes from islambad to hunza valley?

You have two options from islambad to hunza valley:

Islamabad- abbottabad- mansehra- naran- chilas- gilgit - hunza

The other one is:

Islamabad- mardan- swat- chitral- gilgit- hunza

How long it will take to reach hunza valley from Lahore?

 Lahore to hunza valley, it will take about 20-22 hours. And by air it will take almost 11 hours.

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Hunza Valley: Nature's Paradise in the Heart of Pakistan

Hunza Valley is a place of extraordinary beauty and cultural richness, nestled in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. This article takes you on a virtual tour of this breathtaking destination and explores the enchanting allure it holds for travelers from around the world.

Introduction

Hunza Valley is a jewel in the crown of Pakistan, known for its stunning landscapes, hospitable people, and rich history. This article delves into the various aspects that make this valley a must-visit destination.

Location and Geography

Situated at an elevation of approximately 2,500 meters above sea level, Hunza Valley offers breathtaking views of some of the world's highest peaks, including Rakaposhi, Ultar Sar, and the mighty Karakoram Range. It's a picturesque setting, making it an ideal destination for nature lovers and adventurers.

History and Culture

Hunza Valley boasts a fascinating history, with its roots dating back thousands of years. Its people, predominantly Ismaili Muslims, have preserved their unique culture and traditions. We'll explore the historical significance and cultural diversity that defines this region.

Unique Features of Hunza Valley

From ancient forts like Baltit Fort to terraced fields, Hunza Valley is a region filled with unique features. We'll discuss the fascinating aspects of the valley that set it apart from other destinations.

Natural Beauty and Scenic Views

The natural beauty of Hunza Valley is unrivaled. With stunning lakes, lush orchards, and pristine rivers, this region offers some of the most mesmerizing views in the world. We'll take a virtual journey through its enchanting landscapes.

The People of Hunza

The warm and welcoming people of Hunza are an essential part of the valley's charm. We'll explore their way of life, traditions, and the hospitality they offer to visitors.

Tourism and Attractions

Hunza Valley has become a popular tourist destination in recent years, and for good reason. We'll highlight some of the top attractions, such as Attabad Lake, Altit Fort, and the Karimabad Bazaar.

Cuisine of Hunza

The local cuisine of Hunza is a delightful experience for your taste buds. We'll talk about the traditional dishes and ingredients that make the food here unique and flavorful.

Adventures in Hunza

For adventure seekers, Hunza Valley offers a wide range of activities, from trekking and mountain climbing to paragliding. We'll discuss the thrilling adventures you can undertake in this breathtaking landscape.

Sustainable Practices in Hunza

Hunza Valley is committed to sustainability and preserving its natural beauty. We'll look at the eco-friendly practices and initiatives in place to protect this pristine environment.

How to Reach Hunza Valley

Accessing Hunza Valley can be an adventure in itself. We'll provide information on how to reach this remote paradise, whether by road or air.

Best Time to Visit

The timing of your visit can greatly impact your experience. We'll guide you on the best seasons to explore Hunza Valley and the events that you can be a part of.

Accommodation Options

From cozy guesthouses to luxurious hotels, Hunza Valley offers a range of accommodation options. We'll help you choose the perfect place to stay during your visit.

Local Handicrafts and Souvenirs

Hunza is famous for its handicrafts, including handwoven textiles and intricate jewelry. We'll explore the local markets and the best souvenirs to take back home.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Hunza Valley is a destination that captures the essence of nature's beauty and the warmth of its people. It's a place where adventure and tranquility coexist, making it an unforgettable experience for anyone fortunate enough to visit.

FAQs about Hunza Valley

Is Hunza Valley a safe destination for tourists?

Yes, Hunza Valley is considered a safe and welcoming destination for tourists.

What is the best time to visit Hunza Valley for trekking and outdoor activities?

The best time for trekking and outdoor activities is during the spring and summer months, from May to September.

Are there any restrictions on photography in the valley?

No, there are no specific photography restrictions, but it's polite to ask for permission when photographing locals.

What are some traditional dishes to try in Hunza Valley?

Don't miss trying dishes like Chapshuro, Momo, and Hunza Pie.

Are there any medical facilities available in Hunza Valley?

Yes, there are medical facilities and pharmacies in the valley's major towns.

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Salam Pakistan - Tourism Brand

Named “Salam Pakistan,” the tourism brand will focus on building the country’s image as a safe, secure, friendly, and hospitable place with attractive tourism destinations, including scenic mountains, lakes, and sites of deep cultural, religious, and historical significance.

The project will also highlight different food varieties, accommodation, travel modes, and infrastructure facilities offered by the South Asian state to tourists.

“Allah Almighty has blessed our country with great natural resources of scenic beauty all over the northern areas, which can be converted into a great opportunity,” Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said while addressing the inauguration ceremony on 2023 August 4 in Islamabad.

A newly launched e-portal to facilitate tourists contains information on top 20 tourist destinations in the country, including K2, Gwadar, Ziarat Valley, Uch Sharif, Deosai National Park, Kalash Valley, Takht Bhai, Hingol National Park, Shandur Pass, Kambhar Lake, Fairy Meadows, Ratti Gali, Lahore Fort, Makli Graveyard, Derawar Fort, Rohtas Fort, Kumrat Valley, Hunza Valley, and Mohenjo-Daro.

According to the Pakistan Tourism Department Corporation (PTDC), the country’s tourism industry generated $2.5 billion of revenue in 2022 and the figure was expected to go up to $4 billion in the next four years.

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The Secrets of the Hunza Diet: A Plant-Based Lifestyle for Longevity and Health

The Hunza diet is primarily plant-based and includes a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes. The Hunza people consume very little meat and dairy, and their diet is low in fat and calories. They also drink a lot of water, as the Hunza region has an abundant supply of natural spring water. Some of the key foods in the Hunza diet include: Apricots: The Hunza people are known for…

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Rice is a solid grain that is said by nutritionists to be important for your daily diet. However, eating a lot of rice can also have its downfalls. But I think you will be delighted to find out that there are different types of rice. And the best flavored and aromatic one in it is also the one that is the healthiest for you to consume! Yes, I am talking about Basmati Rice which is also known as the king of all rice in the world. Here is why:

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Pakistan's Sea Buckthorn Berries Are Beautifully Underappreciated

By Tahereh Sheerazie, 15/4/15

Sea buckthorn is widely coveted in Michelin-starred kitchens like noma, but people in northern Pakistan, where the orange and red berries grow like wildfire, couldn't care less—even if it does make a delicious and healthy jam.

It was everywhere up north, but I hadn't noticed it on my previous trips.

It grows wild, in Pakistan's Shigar Valley of Baltistan and Shimshal Valley of upper Hunza/Gojal region; a fruit that is widely coveted in Western Michelin-starred kitchens like noma. But locals in these far north valleys care less about eating it and more about using it as barbed wire for fencing around their farmland to keep the animals out.

It's an innocuous part of the landscape in the dry Karakorum mountain range high up in Pakistan's northeast mountainous terrain, home to K2 and many other mighty peaks. Mostly growing wild along river beds, the first time I encountered sea buckthorn (Hippophae) was in late summer of 2008 in upper Gojal's remote 10,000 feet Shimshal Valley in northern Pakistan.

It is here where the ripe orange and red berries grow along the water's edge and brighten the landscape with their brilliant color.

I thought nothing of it, except that it was beautiful—in an odd, thorny sort of way.

That same winter, I was traveling by bus up the KKH (Karakoram Highway, the old Silk Route) to Kashgar from Rawalpindi. This was when I first tasted sea buckthorn in a tangy, sour-sweet, slightly bitter jam at the Serena Hotel in Gilgit, the areas main regional hub.

I was determined to bring some back home to Karachi and Pasadena where I live. No one in Gilgit knew much about it, except that the hotel bought its jam from a supplier in Skardu, Baltistan.

I poked around, searching for clues to find someone who might know of sourcing it in Gilgit. Finally, I was able to locate Wazir Aman, a man who pretty much has a PhD in sea buckthorn studies. A sort of mad scientist meets mad cook, he has been making and selling the juice and jams for years, and churns out sea buckthorn by-products out of a tiny cabin right off the KKH. Studying art in Karachi—like many art school graduates—his education had left him struggling for cash so he returned home to look for employment up north, earning an income by carrying loads and cooking for trekking expeditions. I can't recall what piqued his interest in sea buckthorn, but he began doing extensive research, and, among other things, discovered that the longevity of crows—which feed on the berries—is indebted to the fruit. This is what got him hooked on promoting sea buckthorn to people.

I followed my nose to find his scruffy cabin a few hours north of Gilgit, which was crammed with all sorts of things to cook and experiment with. His buddies sat chatting on a few scattered chairs, huddled around small tables. Wooden shelves filled with empty glass jam jars and rows of orange-looking juice in green, one-liter 7UP bottles decorated the walls. A two-burner gas stove sat on one of the very messy counters, sharing space with tins containing oil, sugar, salt, bags of berry powder, and who knows what else.

I sat drinking the customary sweet hot milk tea, listening with rapt attention to Wazir's tales of his life and the benefits of this miracle fruit. He extracts its juice for controlling high blood pressure and diabetes, grinds the sea buckthorn into powder for medicines, makes pulp for jams, and even presses the berries for oil.

I bought it all—the ideas and the merchandise.

He whipped up three jars of jam for me and one bottle of juice before I left next day. No one drank the sour, bitter juice when I brought it home, but everyone licked the jam jars clean. Wazir gets his raw material from the Shimshal Valley and from a man named Ghulam Nabi Shigri in Skardu, Baltistan. Ghulam Nabi (the king of Balti sea buckthorn) exports the dry crushed berry to markets elsewhere in the country, which then make it further afield to Europe's medicine and cosmetic industries. Wazir's successful experiments with jams and juices even helped him pay off a large chunk of his art school loans.

That sounds like a miracle fruit to me!

Among all the minerals, fatty acids, and antioxidants it's famous for, sea buckthorn is best known for its high vitamin C content, but I barely met anyone in these northern valleys who was eating it for health reasons. On subsequent trips, I managed to locate a jam outlet in Skardu, Nabi Shigri's warehouse, as well as a government-run agricultural research institute in Skardu that is making jam, extracting the precious oil, drying the leaves for tea, and pounding the berries into a powder for a Tang-like dry juice. I was delighted to know that such a large organization is promoting the use of the berry, even if the world is still largely ignorant of its existence.

I stock up on sea buckthorn jam from Skardu whenever I am there, but I avoid being overly generous in sharing it. Getting a bottle of jam from so far north in Pakistan is just as cumbersome as jumping the thorny shrub to graze on forbidden farmlands. Someday I hope to catch up with Wazir Aman again and hear about the next miracle fruit he might have discovered in those remote mountains.

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Burusapik is local type of food in Gilgit Baltistan and the ingredients we use in it is butter, shapik, burus, appricot oil and green fresh onion. So the taste of this dish is delicious thats why people also enjoy the taste of this dish. 

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"The positive food factors come into the food from the soil. But if the soil itself has become exhausted and impoverished — demineralised, as they say — it can not yield highly positive food. We have already seen in the description of the agriculture of the Hunza people that soil health needs to be maintained at its proper level by the use of natural manure, and even this has to be supplemented by pulverised rock to remineralise it from time to time. On this subject, there is a wealth of literature that has been brought out by the Soil Associations of the west, that were formed, inspired by the discoveries of Sir Albert Howard. These books have to be gone through and mastered by those who wish to grow wholesome vegetables, fruits or other food. On the other hand, commerce, with the aid of crude and shortsighted scientists, has interfered and fabricated artificial fertilisers, the use of which forces the soil to produce an abundance of crops, whose health value is almost nil. Growers of vegetables in the villages make free use of these chemicals, and make high profits. But the vegetables are insipid, being poor in the organic salts and vitamins. These vegetables are, therefore, much less positive than those grown on soil manured with compost manure or even than those grown on soil not manured at all. Thus the popularity of artificial manures is a serious menace to our health. Health-lovers should take suitable steps to fight this evil. They should put pressure on the government to ensure the supply of wholesome vegetables. Another evil that threatens health is the spraying of deadly poisons to kill crop pests or parasites that infest fruits and vegetables. Most of these pests, attack crops grown with artificial manure on impoverished soils; the remedy is to avoid the artificials and use natural manures. Nowadays, it is admitted by agricultural scientists, that ‘humus’ is necessary for soil health. For preserving and renewing this ‘humus,’ the use of compost manure is absolutely necessary. This is freely admitted. But it appears that the officials of the Agricultural Department push the sales of the chemical fertilisers with such zeal that the cultivator fails to realise the need of using compost manures; also, the artificials are used in great excess. The result is that in a few years, the soil is demineralised and exhausted and loses its alkalinity; it becomes acid, which leads to the absorption of poisons, such as aluminium, from the soil, which causes disturbances of health, leading finally to diseases such as cancer. Ultimately the whole region becomes desert and is lost to civilisation. The soil is not mere inert earth, but a highly complex substance, teeming with life and rich with the products of life. The earthworm and vast populations of helpful bacteria are there, working as Nature’s agents for maintaining soil health and fertility, these being the absolutely necessary conditions for the production of health-promoting food. Artificial fertilisers destroy this right kind of fertility and ultimately make the soil sterile and useless for growing wholesome food crops. Salads are an important item in the diet for patients. But salads prepared from vegetables grown with artificial manure are so poor in the positive elements, that they are ineffectual for the purpose. Primary foods are wholesome, only if grown with natural manures. "

Practical Nature-Cure (9th Ed.) by K. Lakshmana Sarma, 1956 Chapter: IX Positive Food

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The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Hunza, situated in the extreme northern part of Pakistan, is a mountainous valley in the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The residents of this valley – known as the Hunzakut – are famous the world over for their longevity, physical and mental stamina, and overall good health.

Residents of the Hunza Valley in the Himalayan mountains are renowned for their excellent physical and mental health and long life spans

Apparently, there has never been a known case of cancer in Hunza valley.

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