Meet Your Host
Najma Mehmood
Cultural & Women-Led Travel Specialist
I'm Najma, a UK-based community host and cultural curator with a deep love for culture, heritage and meaningful travel. My work is rooted in curating thoughtful journeys that bring people closer to places, history and themselves through connection, adventure and shared experience. Alongside travel, I've been passionate about creating greater access for women in outdoor and nature spaces through hiking and community-led experiences. Over the years, this has evolved into co-hosting and leading culturally immersive women's trips across destinations including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. I'm drawn to travel that feels intentional, grounding and emotionally enriching — experiences that combine culture, wellness, adventure, storytelling and human connection in a meaningful way. Through the collaboration with Facing North, I hope to help others experience the warmth, beauty and depth of Pakistan in a way that feels inspiring, immersive and deeply personal.
Overview of the location
Ten days that take you from a capital built in the 1960s to a fort that was already old when it was built, by way of the Karakoram Highway – the paved descendant of the Silk Road – and a cricket ground cut into a mountainside with a 7,788-metre peak standing behind the boundary. Three valleys, two 400-year-old kitchens, five peaks over seven thousand metres in a single frame – and a film crew with you the whole way, so you come home with the footage as well as the memory. Co-hosted by Najma Mehmood – a woman-led journey, open to women travelling together, families, friends and solo travellers alike.
What's Included
MEAL
9 Breakfasts, 8 Lunches & 9 Dinners
Transport
Toyota Grand Cabin & 4x4 Jeeps
Group size
8 - 12 pax
expert team
Trained English speaking guide and resident director
ACCOMMODATION
All accommodation as outlined in the itinerary. We’ll make sure room sharing is matched by gender unless otherwise requested
ENTRANCE FEES
entrance fees for sights mentioned in the itinerary
FITNESS RATING
Moderate
BOOK WITH CONFIDENCE
All Flexible booking conditions regarding transfer and cancellations
Bonfire
1x Bonfire Night
Tradtional musical night
1x Tradtional musical night
Souvenirs
1x Souvenirs
Culinary experiences
Traditional Hunza & Balti cuisine
What's Not Included
International flights to and from Islamabad
Pakistan visa fees – we prepare the documentation, you pay the fee
Travel and medical insurance – strongly recommended
Optional activities – zip lines at Upper Kachura and Hussaini Bridge, polo match entry
Spa and wellness treatments on Day 9
Lunch on Day 1, and lunch and dinner on Day 10
Beverages outside the included meals
Laundry, telephone, paid Wi-Fi and personal items
Personal shopping and souvenirs
Tips for guide, driver and crew, at your discretion
Medical costs, evacuation and rescue
Costs from landslides, road closures, weather or flight delays
Anything not explicitly listed as included
Map and Itinerary
Itinerary Section
10 DAYS 9 NIGHTS
The Capital, Before the Mountains
Arrival at Islamabad International. Your guide meets the group in arrivals and the vehicle is already waiting. Transfer to the Ambience Hotel, check in, and time to shower off the flight before the city opens up. Faisal Mosque first – Vedat Dalokay's Bedouin-tent design folded into the foot of the Margalla Hills, and one of the largest mosques in the world. Then the Pakistan Monument on Shakarparian ridge, four granite petals opening over the city, and Saidpur Village, a 500-year-old Mughal-era settlement swallowed whole by the modern capital. Up the Margalla Hills road to Monal for the arrival dinner, with Islamabad laid out below you in a grid of lights. Your guide runs the route briefing over dinner. Back to the Ambience for an early night – tomorrow is a dawn flight.
01 / 10Dates And Prices
Pakistan: Around Karakoram: A Woman-Led Journey
All prices below are quoted on double occupancy and exclude international flights. An advance of 50% is to be paid at the time of booking and the remaining amount to be cleared prior to 30 days of departure. Please read the terms and conditions carefully.
Around Karakoram: A Woman-Led Journey
Hosted by: Najma Mehmood
Year-round · on request · 10 days
£1,750 / PP
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