Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan has been named among top 25 destinations worth visiting in 2025. The list was made by CNN.
Gilgit-Baltistan in CNN list
According to US-based channel, “The Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Karakoram Mountains isn’t the easiest place to get to — flight schedules can be unreliable, roads can be blocked off seasonally — but it has more tantalising peaks than a lemon meringue pie.”
“It’s home to five of the 14 ‘eight-thousander’ peaks recognised as the world’s highest. That includes K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain but No. 1 in terms of difficulty and danger,” the broadcaster said.
This stunning region in the Karakoram Mountains is a haven for adventure seekers and nature lovers.
It is pertinent to mention that the region is very popular with mountaineers, with over 1,700 foreign adventure tourists applying for permits to climb peaks in 2024. Of those, 175 people aimed to scale K2 in the summer, according to a top government official.
CNN’s 2025 list also include Almaty in Kazakhstan, India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bolivia, Germany’s Chemnitz, Morocco’s Rabat, Vancouver Island in Canada, Turkiye’s Kaçkar Mountains, England’s footpaths, Eswatani and Mpumalanga province in South Africa.
In 2023, Pakistan was the ‘best performing destination’ in terms of tourism during the first nine months of 2023, according to the ‘World Tourism Barometer’ published by the World Tourism Organisation of the United Nations.
Pakistan was among the top 10 “under-the-radar” travel destinations for 2020.
The Forbes’ list also features Armenia, Chad, Eritrea, Guatemala, Mongolia and Saudi Arabia.
