Visit Pakistan's famous Hunza Valley and the Indus Valley Civilization
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Explore Pakistan
Our tours to Pakistan are all-inclusive packages and are led by experienced local guides. Browse our cultural and adventure tours to Pakistan's famous Karakoram mountain valleys and ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
Visit the famous Baltit Fort and Altit Fort built by Balti craftsmen in Tibetan architecture, the tourquoise-blue Attabad Lake, and more.
Visit the Empires of the Indus: Mohenjo Daro, Harappa, Kot Diji, and Mughal era royal Lahore Fort and the Badshahi Masjid.
Trek along the Baltoro Glacier to the base of K2, world's second highest mountain and Broad Peak, 12th highest in the world.
Drive to a Kalash Valley in the Hindukush mountains, home to pagans and nature worshippers. See "Chilam Joshi", Kalash's Spring festival.
Why Choose Us
Our Pakistan guides are born and raised in the regions you'll visit. They speak fluent English, hold professional government licenses, and will take you to their own hometowns to share the history and the local experiences.
We have a cap for every tour at 10 travelers. Small groups mean you actually get to sit with a Hunza family for lunch, walk through villages without drawing a crowd, and have real conversations with the people you meet.
We don't just show you the sights, our local guides let you participate in local life. Cook biryani with a family in a Karimabad, attend the Chilam Joshi spring festival in Rambur with the our Kalash friends, and celebrate Navroz with families in Gilgit.
All meals (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner), accommodation, private transport (and our experienced drivers), internal flights, tips, site entry tickets, and Mr. Karim Khan as your guide are included in the price. No hidden fees, no surprise costs. Just show up and have fun.
The Vacation Project is a licensed Pakistan tour operator based in Hunza. We are in the heart of the Karakoram mountains. We specialize in small group tours which follow carefully planned itineraries and private tours which are fully personalized. The Vacation Project started its operations in 2009. Over the years, we have operated a large number of cultural and adventure tours across Pakistan. Our itineraries have been tweaked over the years from the feedback we get from our esteemed travellers.
From epic roadtrips that cover idylic Karakoram valleys like Gulmit in the north to the ancient houses of Harappa in the south and cruising along the Arabian Sea, every tour is led by English speaking local guides. Our guests are experts who were born and raised in the regions you'll visit.
Our Pakistan tours are designed specifically for international travelers who want more than sightseeing, and want to experience the local traditions like making making Bhindi with a family in Sukkur. We take you into local communities to share stories over meals with families, walk you through bazaars where lapis lazuli and handwoven shawls are sold by the artisans who made them, and bring you to festivals like Taghm Festival in Gulmit or the famous Chilam Joshi in the Kalash Valley, and Navroz in Gilgit that most visitors never see. Our Pakistan tour packages are all-inclusive, so don't worry we cover everything: any meals, accommodation, private transport, internal flights, and an experienced guide are all included in the price. You just have to show up!
Our travelers are pleasantly surprised by what they see. Pakistan is home to three of the world's great mountain ranges in Asia which are the Karakoram, the Himalayas, and the Hindu Kush. 5 of the world's 14 mountains above 8,000 meters are in the north of Pakistan, including K2, the second highest mountain on earth. But Pakistan's appeal goes far beyond mountains. You may remember your middle school history teacher mentioning that Pakistan has the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the oldest organized human settlements that are contemporary to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The people of Indus left behind the remarkable cities of Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, which are the earliest planned cities of humankind.
The Mughal Empire built the royal Lahore Fort and the Badshahi Mosque, monuments so iconic and grand that even today they have a way of making visitors fall unusually quiet for a moment (before the cameras come out, of course). But the saga of the Indus is far bigger than any one empire or dynasty. Long before the Mughals, regional powers like the warrior-dynasty of Talpurs in Sindh and the wealthy Abbasi dynasty of Bahawalpur, along with various Nawabs, continued to shape life along Indus. Each empire add their own layer to the region’s identity and culture.
Traveling through what remains today, history doesn’t feel distant but it feels lived in. Our veteran Pakistan guide, Mr. Karim Khan, says that along the Indus, “every few kilometers, the language, the food, and sometimes even the sense of humor changes.” One moment you’re hearing stories of royal Bahawalpur courts and Cholistan desert caravans, and the next you’re being offered chai by a man in Chichawatni who insists you stay just a little longer.
In the Hindukush mountains, the Kalash people, who number in just over 4,000, are still practicing an ancient animistic mountain religion that predates Islam in the region by many centuries. It is a reminder that Pakistan’s cultural tapestry and identity is very diverse, and far older, than most people might think.
Whether you're looking for a Hunza Valley tour, a trek to K2 Base Camp along the Baltoro glacier, or a cultural journey through the Indus Valley, our Pakistan tour packages are built with years of planning, and full of experiences centered on history, people and places that make this country truly underrated. As featured in The New York Times and The National, The Vacation Project has been connecting curious travelers with the real Pakistan since 2009.