03/05/2025
10 Unexplored Places in Chunda Valley, SKARDU
✍️ Engr Shujaat Kamal
(Resident of the Valley)
Chunda Valley, the mini switzerland, is located just 5 km away from Skardu international Airport and it hardly takes an hour from Skardu city to reach this richly-astonishing place. It has gained immense spotlight from last 4 to 5 years due to the untiring effort of local and non-local social media influencers and tour guides. No wonder, every tourist plans a visit to this stunning valley. Today, this valley receives hundreds of tourists on daily basis in the summer and spring season.
Chunda Valley, the tourist hotspot in Skardu, is particularly famous for providing breathtaking views to the visitors when apricot blossom touches its peak. Flowers boom here when people in Skardu Baltistan bid farewell to the blossom season due to its high altitude from sea level. This temperature difference is also a reason that even myriad of local tourists pay a visit to this piece of paradise on earth. Furthermore, the fact of this place's high altitude makes it one of the best place that provides birds-eye view of the entire Skardu, Baltistan. This interesting feature compels people to, sometimes, call it, "The Roof Of Skardu" among other lovely names.
It is worth-mentioning here that despite this valley's coming into visitors and explorers' spotlight since last few years, there are many places and scenic tourist-hotspots still widely unexplored. These stunning places include the following:
1. Chogho Rzing Meadows, Upper Chunda
2. Lako Meadows, Upper Chunda
3. Barhdung Meadows, Upper Chunda
4. Lungma (Nala), Upper Chunda
5. Chogho Rzing (The Biggest Artificial lake near Rzing Thang Meadows)
6. Dinosaur Rock, Upper Chunda
7. Scissors Rock (Thiring Chunda View Point)
8. Drehla (Garden and Meadows), Upper Chunda
9. Chunda Waterfall, Central Chunda
10. Maltoro Bridge, Lower Chunda Valley
These are the places still widely unexplored in Chunda Valley. Most of them are located in Upper Chunda Valley while some of them are in Central Chunda (Chunda Center) and Lower Chunda (Chunda Paain).
Notwithstanding the Valley's stunning view, the above mentioned places are the hidden treasure for those interested in exploring Pakistan's north.
The visitors are recommended to have the name pf these places with them while visiting Chunda Valley. The drivers, and guides should be pressed to take the guests to these places as well. Most of the time tourists are get trapped in the hands of people who either don't know these places or they don't want the adventure loving people to visit these places just to serve their own interests.
It's expected that people of the region especially the local social media influencers & activists will help explore this stunning place and unlock it to the wider world thereby showcasing Pakistan's soft image which is otherwise blurred by international media.
✍️ Engr. Shujaat Ali
