Tour Operator in Gilgit-Baltistan

Pakistan Travellers is a tour operator and travel agency working across Gilgit-Baltistan. We have run private trips in the region since 2013, with our head office in Rawalpindi and a regional office in Sargrong Road, near City Police Station, Shigar, an hour from Skardu city.

This page is the regional overview — which valleys we cover and how we are set up in each. For the trips themselves see Gilgit-Baltistan tour packages, and if what you actually want is help judging one operator against another, that is a different question and we have written it up separately on choosing a tour company in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Where we operate across Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan is far larger than it looks on a map, and the valleys inside it are not variations on one another — Baltistan and Hunza have different roads, different seasons and different hotels. Rather than repeat each valley here, this is where we work and where to read more.

• Skardu and Baltistan. Shangrila and the Kachura lakes, Shigar, Khaplu, Kharmang, Deosai, Basho and the Sarfaranga desert. This is where our regional office is. See our Skardu operation, Skardu packages, or car rental in Skardu.
• Hunza and Nagar. Karimabad, Baltit and Altit forts, Attabad Lake, the Passu Cones and Khunjerab Pass at 4,693 m on the Chinese border. See Hunza Valley, Hunza packages, Attabad Lake and Khunjerab Pass.
• Gilgit and Naltar. The regional capital and the three coloured lakes above it in the pine forest. See the Gilgit guide and Naltar Valley.
• Diamer and Fairy Meadows. The jeep track from Raikot Bridge and the walk to the Nanga Parbat viewpoint. See Fairy Meadows packages and what the jeep actually costs.
• Astore, Deosai and Minimarg. Rama Meadow, the plateau crossing to Skardu, and the restricted valleys beyond. See Rama Lake and Astore, Deosai and Minimarg.
• Ghizer, Phander and Shandur. The quiet west of the region, and the pass across to Chitral. See Phander Valley and Shandur Pass.

Tour operator in Hunza

Hunza is the half of the region most first-time visitors start with, and it is the easier half logistically — the Karakoram Highway is paved the whole way to the border, the hotels are the best developed in Gilgit-Baltistan, and the valley stays reachable later into the year than Baltistan does.

We run Hunza as private trips from Islamabad, usually six to seven days by road, with Khunjerab as a day from Karimabad and Attabad and Passu on the way up. Blossom season in late March and April and the autumn colour in October are the two windows people plan around. Full detail, itineraries and live prices are on the Hunza tour packages page rather than repeated here.

Our Gilgit-Baltistan tour packages

Live from our catalogue, so a price change in our system reaches this table the same day. Read the basis line under each figure: most trips are priced for the whole group sharing one vehicle, and any still shown per person say so.

The full catalogue is on Gilgit-Baltistan tour packages. If your dates or route do not fit any of them, build your own.

What we handle as your tour operator

The word covers a lot of different businesses in Pakistan, so it is worth being specific about what we actually do rather than broker out.

• Transport. Our own vehicles and our own drivers, 4x4 where the route needs it — the fleet is published with rates.
• Hotels across every category, booked and paid by us, with an equivalent property of the same category arranged if a listed one is unavailable.
• Flights. The Islamabad–Skardu and Islamabad–Gilgit sectors, inside by-air packages.
• Route planning around the season — which passes are open, which valleys are worth the drive in a given month, and which combinations do not fit the days you have.
• Custom itineraries for dates, budgets or interests that no standard package covers — tell us what you want.
• Vehicles on their own, without a package, for travellers arranging the rest themselves.

How we are set up on the ground

Most companies selling Gilgit-Baltistan trips are selling from Punjab and subcontracting to whoever is available in the valley that week. That works until something goes wrong, and in the mountains something goes wrong regularly — a pass closes, a flight cancels, a hotel gives away a room it confirmed.

We are set up the other way round: an office inside the region at Sargrong Road, near City Police Station, Shigar, drivers who work these roads through the season rather than for a fortnight in July, and vehicles that are ours. It is not a marketing claim so much as an operational one — it decides how fast a plan can change when the mountain decides it must.

Contact our Gilgit-Baltistan office

WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach us and we usually reply within half an hour. Send your dates, your group size and which part of the region you have in mind, and we will come back with a written itinerary and a price.

• WhatsApp / phone: +92 371 5303587
• Email: paktravellers01@gmail.com
• Gilgit-Baltistan office: Sargrong Road, near City Police Station, Shigar, Gilgit-Baltistan
• Rawalpindi: Office PD 447, Line No. 6, Rawalpindi
• Lahore: Johar Town, Lahore
• Hours: every day — in season the phone is what matters when a plan changes.