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The Hunza valley
begins in Chalt where the Hunza River turns sharply south. It is rather
narrow and featureless here until the village of Hindi, where the valley
begins to open up. Approaching Aliabad at 2300 meters, you pass the police
station, the hospital and the primary school, just off the highway on a
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Buried in a
gigantic mountain range, Hunza has been one of the most cut-off region in
this part of the world. It only became known to the rest of the world in
1880s, and ever since has been descriebed as a lost paradise, the Shangri-La
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This is a region of rubies and
garnets. Early in December of 1891, following the successful assault on
the fort at Nilt, Colonel Algernon Durand, the commanding officer, was
wounded. When the bullet was finally extracted, it turned out be a garnet
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Mt Rakaposhi
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