The region is home to all sorts of tourism activities just try to discover by trekking hiking, mountain biking, white water rafting or just amuse yourself enjoying the nature having stayed in the Gulmit Continental Hotel.

Traveling along the Karakorum Highway is breathtaking and unending experience and recalls for revisiting the unique and unmatchable beauties. Natural beauty changes as the journey continues ahead. The Karakorum highway is the ninth wonders of the world after heavy toll of lives and millions spent on this mega project and eventually the dream came true restoring the world class highway introduced to the public. This amazing and unusual road now remains the perpetual accessway to the world.

The length of this world wonder is some 9 hundred kilometers starting off thakok and ending at the far end of the roof of the world is a real miracle not only the world wonder but has also changed the life style of the local people of gilgit Baltistan. Some of the phenomes lying on the Karakorum highway are the nangaparbat on the way to chilas. The marvelous rakahposhi.  The towering Gulmit tower seen from the road in Gulmit and can also be viewed from the Gulmit continent hotel. The mount Tupopdan known as the passu cones is the most beautiful mountain with a golden color look makes it more enchanting for the viewer to enjoy its glamour. There are various languages spoken in the Karakorum region such as shina burushaski wakhi khwar hindku domaki and so on but the majority of speakers are the wakhis spoken in three central Asian countries. There are some rare species of wild animals and beasts such as the snow leopard, the marcopolo sheep the markhor.

On route from Islamabad one enjoys the various views of nature as moving ahead such as hassan abdal havelian Besham and still many other villages and towns reaching thakot is the place where the fwo road meets the Karakorum highway with the Indus river flowing beneath and its source of flow is the Khunjerab with a length of 310 kilometers.Construction of the Karakorum highway was a great feat of Chinese engineering which took some 20 years to complete.10000 Chinese engineers and 1500 Pakistani worked alongside. This project took some 900 lives. It was this sacrifice which eventually took shape in the form of a world wonder which the world community wasn’t really aware that such a amazing mega project would ever startle them of the human achievement. In 1978 this great world class highway was opened to home and abroad.

Khunjerab pass 4733 m is the junction point of this highway. The Gulmit Continental Hotel lures you to show you round the majesties of the Karakorum highway and Karakorum mountain resorts with the comfortable stay and dine facilities it provides with only a few hours drive it conducts to such various destinations.

According to the geologists the northern areas is the very ideal resorts for the tourists, travelers the photographers. The national park 4733m on the Khunjerab kkh is a utopia for the nature lovers remains open from the 1st April till the first December.