Attabad Lake

I am sure all you have already started imagining the picture of the lake, since it’s the most common and the most over-rated lake of the GB. I know it might have hurt your sentiments but I’ll be honest here. If not all, I still have visited enough lakes of the region and they all were breathtakingly beautiful. So whenever I think of Attabad, I unconsciously start comparing it with other lakes; and to be honest again, others win.

I don’t have any hard feelings attached to the place but it is just that. The place indeed is beautiful, no doubt. Especially I love how the tunnels are pierced from those magnanimous mountains. They appear no less than a miracle. And those mountains! The beautiful mountains! And that specific blue hue of the lake! You can always guess the lake with these hints.

I’m sure all of you know the story of its historical origin. Just in case you don’t know, it was formed as a result of a massive landslide burying the village of Attabad. Displacing almost six thousand people and damaging more than 20km of the Karakoram Highway, the river was dammed at the area, creating a new lake. Remember that this was the only route connecting this remote region and due to the creation of the lake, this part got disconnected. Then five years later, the route was diverted along the shores of the lake via tunnels.

Despite the beauty of the place and all the recreational activities there, the whole story is not quite picturesque; especially for the locals. And same I can say about me as well. This place haunts be a little inside. I feel the dread and death in its water. I did travel on the boat, did jet skiing also, meanwhile, touched and splashed the water as well, yet again, it contains a strange fear. I did tour the blue lake of Naltar on a raft like boat but that didn’t give me the goosebumps, like the proper boats of Attabad did.

Well, everyone have their own experience, of course, but I have an uncommon and different experience related to it. You might be thinking why I have been so brutally honest, it’s because nobody will ever write a blog like this one. And the obvious ones can be read anywhere.

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