The Offical Website of Gulmit Continental Hotel, Gulmit Gojal Hunza

Gojal valley is famous for its rich natural wealth, picturesque locations, lofty mountains, breathe taking, scanic beauty wildlife, nature gilttering glaciers, villages of lush green foliage and fruits, beautiful meadows and pastures. The valley is comparised of 25 villages including Ainabad, shishket, gulmit, ghulkin, hussaini, passu, khyber, ghalapan, moorkhon, jamalabad, gircha, sarteez, sost, khudabad, misghar, avgarchi, raminj, yarzrich, kirmin, reshit, sharisavz, kumpirdiyor, zawoodkhun, boibar, and shimshal. Gulmit is Gojal’s largest settlement and tehsil headquarters.

Gojal is geographically the largest tehsil of hunza nagar district in Gilgit-Baltistan spreading over an area of about 8500 sq.kms.

Gojal is the home to the world’s largest concentration of snow-clad mountains of over 7800 mts high including dustughal sar, kuyang chish, batura, kanjut sar, shisper sar, yukshin garden, passu peak, gulmit tower, mamhal sar, mulangudi sar, tupopdan sar, pamir sar, yazghil, lupghar sar, qaroon koh, kumpir diyor.

A great mass of glaciers shatubar and gulmit glacier, batura, mamhel, mulangudi glacier, destgoz, chuckhel, sarnichin, paryar, boibar, khurdopin, yazghel, verzherav, passu glacier, ghulkin glacier quronkoh and sukhtarabad glaciers. There are many stratagic passes connecting the region with china, Afghanistan and other asian republics, including khunjerab pass, mitika, kilik, wakhjir, shimshal and chafchingol, these passes have served as entry point for caravans and traders coming from china and Afghanistan via the ancient silk route. Gojal valley is rich in different fauna and flora because of varied climatic conditions and ecosystems and different altitudes from shisket to khunjerab. The valley hosts some of the species of mammals and birds like marcopolo sheep, blue sheep, markhor, blackbear, brown bear, chakor, tibetanred fox, tibetan wolf, blue sheep, tibetan wildass, ermine, alpine weasel, stone marten, golden marmet, lynx and migratory hamster.