Baha Lake (Urdu: باہا جھیل, Khowar: باہو چھت) is situated in Shandur Valley Tehsil Gupis of Ghizer District, Ghizer District, the westernmost part of the Northern Areas and northernmost territory of Pakistan. This lake is an important source of fresh water with full of
trout
Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salmoni ...
.
Location
Baha Lake is located in
Koh-i-Ghizer
Golaghmuli Valley ( ur, وادی پھنڈر) or Koh-i-Ghizer ( ur, کوہ غذر) or Valley of Martyrs ( ur, وادی شہداء) or Shandur Valley ( ur, وادی شندور) is a high mountainous valley in the present day Gupis–Yasin District ...
of District Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is . Its direction is from north to south. To reach Baha Lake, a person must take the
Karakoram Highway
The Karakoram Highway ( ur, , translit=śāhirāh qarāquram; known by its initials KKH, also known as N-35 or National Highway 35 ( ur, ) or the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway) is a national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in ...
from Islamabad to Gilgit. And then take Gilgit-Chitral road west from Gilgit, and then continue his journey straight towards Chitral. When it comes in Langar, the main road goes toward Shandur and on the left hand side to south direction, Khukush Nallah starts. One cannot take any bike or bicycle as there are bothering trek road to reach Baha Lake. It takes 2 hours from Langar to reach at Baha Lake.
Physical appearance
Baha Lake has sky blue colour. It is the longest natural lake in
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan (; ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory, and constituting the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region which has been the subject of a dispute bet ...
. It is 5 kilometers in length and 750 meters in width. It is not an easy job for a person to complete a trip round the lake.
References
External links
* https://books.google.com/books?isbn=443155369X
* https://www.infona.pl/resource/bwmeta1.element...ae7b.../contributors
* https://web.archive.org/web/20160709045004/http://gbepa.gog.pk/Downloads/Reports/LNYE2009.pdf
* https://visitingfun.blogspot.com/search/label/Shandur%20Pass
* https://web.archive.org/web/20150924101238/http://www.shandur.chitralstudio.com/history/
* https://www.uh.edu/~sdkhan/pubs.html
* https://wikimapia.org/15521100/Baha-Lake
Camping in Pakistan
Ghizer District
Lakes of Gilgit-Baltistan
Reservoirs in Pakistan
Lakes in Ghizer
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