Gilgit ~ Cities of Pakistan ~ Pakistan Travel Places

It was an vital metropolis on the Silk Road, alongside which Buddhism was unfold from South Asia to the remainder of Asia. It is taken into account as a Buddhism hall from which many Chinese monks got here to Kashmir to study and preach Buddhism.

Brogpas hint their settlement from Gilgit into the fertile villages of Ladakh by way of a wealthy corpus of hymns, songs, and folklore which were handed down by way of generations. The Dards and Shinas seem in lots of the previous Pauranic lists of peoples who lived within the area, with the previous additionally talked about in Ptolemy‘s accounts of the area. Two well-known travellers, Faxian and Xuanzang, traversed Gilgit in response to their accounts.

Famous locations to go to:

• Naltar valley
• Hunza
• Nagar Valley
• Kargah Budda