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The Karakoram Highway (8th wonder of the world)

Mostly people ask why the Karakorum highway is known as the 8th wonder of the world?

So we are going to list the features of the KKH owing to which it is counted as the 8th wonder of the world.

A brief introduction about the highway

The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It was built by the governments of Pakistan and China, it was started in 1959 and was completed in 1979 (open to the public since 1986) about 810 Pakistanis and about 200 Chinese workers lost their lives, mostly in landslides and falls while building the highway. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakorum mountain ranges, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 meters (15,397 ft). It connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit–Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions and also serves as a popular tourist attraction.  Its length is 1300 km. 

It is pertinent to mention here that the highway passes along such geographical localities that one cannot imagine such variations might exist, like when some places along the highway experience a scorching heat of about 50 degree Celsius in May, some places still receive snow and freezes.  

Reason for counting as 8th wonder

• The K.K.H. passes through a scenic wonderland. The landscape changes almost after every mile. Starting from Hasan Abdal about 60 kilometers away from Islamabad, every second of drive leads one up and up towards the land of peaks; Gilgit-Baltistan.  
• When in Hasan Abdal, it is totally a plain area having small ridges around but one cannot find high altitude terrain and forest areas. Moving further the hills grow in altitude and forest becomes thicker. 
• When Mansehra is crossed, the highway enters into breathtaking and heavenly valleys like Chatar Plain, Battal and Batgram etc. These valleys are in fact a piece of heaven; thickly forested, the vehicles are lost in the forest. 
• When in Kohistan, the last district of KPK, the highway follows every twist and turns of the Indus River. Sometimes the highway carved through the rocky mountain passes through the climax of the mountain, having sight of Indus River deep in the ravine, it seems like one is flying in plane or helicopter. 
• Until the end of the KPK the mountains are covered by the thick evergreen forest, but as one enters the Gilgit-Baltistan there is a complete shift in mountain structures. The giant goldish rocky mountains are covered by snow and there is a very little forest on it.
•  There are hundreds of suspension bridges on Indus River across the KKH connecting world's two mightiest mountain ranges (Himalaya emerging from India and Hindukush from Afghanistan). 
• One can have sight of the gleaming icy summits of world's highest mountains: Nanga Parbat and Rakaposhi ( 9th and the 27th highest peak in the world) from the highway. 
• Many glaciers can be seen while traveling on the highway which includes: Minapin, Passu, Gulkin and Khunjrab glaciers.
• The highway transects a number of rivers including; Gilgit, Hunza, Indus and Khunjrab River.
• Hundreds of streams can be seen along the highway. 
• One can see the road carved into the rocky mountains; even the sign of rods of machines which were used to bore the rock is visible along the road.
• There are more than 50,000 pieces of rock art and petroglyphs all along the highway that are concentrated at ten major sites between Hunza and Shatial. The carvings were left by invaders, traders, and pilgrims who passed along the trade route, as well as by locals. The earliest date back to between 5000 and 1000 BC, showing single animals, triangular men, and hunting scenes in which the animals are larger than the hunters. 

KKH passing through Passu Village

Below are pictures of Gilgit-Skardu Road which is alike KKH. We are uploading these because we have mentioned above that the highway is carved through mighty rocky mountains and the second reason is, we don't have any clear and new pictures of KKH right now.

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