Tour Planning

This has been observed that many travelers inquired about tour couple of days before the tour date, so this is recommendable to plan and book your tour at least 2 weeks prior departure date and two months before for international tour.

Packing

If you are planning for a tour, especially to Nothern areas then you must have warm clothes with you rather it would come in use or not but you must have with you on tour. Pack pants/trousers and shirts preferably casually and easy to wear an equal number of tour days. casual shoes or joggers are must along with an extra pair of shoes. A softy or sandals is also preferable. Also pack cap, shemagh scarf, sunglasses, bodyspray, torch, travel neck pillow, multiple pair of socks, and water bottle with you.

You need a travel towel

Always Have rain protections

Electronics

Always have an extra USB charger, Universal adapter/travel plug, Power Bank, headphone, portable hard drives.

Health checkup before you travel

Visit your doctor and dentist for a checkup before your tour departure. Few basic lab tests can also be helpful.

Invest in a good camera

Your photos will be some of your best memories, so invest in a good camera, selfie stick or tripod. If your budget allows then a good option is to have a DSLR / mirrorless camera and another option could be action camera like GoPro or insta360 type cameras, of course, take the time to understand how it works before you leave.

The Best Carry-On Travel Backpacks

Rucksacks or Dry bags are amazing for keeping your valuables safe on northern areas trips and for protecting any electronics you have in your daypack with you. Most of the rucksacks have the best feature or rain cover that protects the bag when it starts to rain. For a travel or hike daypack is the best option to carry necessary items with you by keeping left items at the hotel

Carry around CNIC or Passport copies

Always keep CINC or passport photocopy with you to provide in a hotel or security check post if demanded.

Carry a basic first-aid kit.

Accidents happen so be prepared for any unfortunate. You can take antibacterial cream, band-aids, and ointments for minor cuts and scrapes. Other then bandages you can have some basic medicines. You never know when you’re going to need it and you can’t always get it when you travel.

Travel day dress

For a long road journey always prefer to put a very comfortable dress and shoes along with a neck travel pillow. Always try to have a day pack bag near you by having power bank, headphones, external hard disk, laptop, first aid kid along with any medicine you use regularly, and some extra layer hoodies/ fleece-jacket for emergency use.

Use sunscreen every day

When you travel to Nothern areas, you’re in the sun that can harm your skin more. Wear sunscreen every single day, regardless of the weather and temperature, because you really don’t want your memorable pictures in tanned skin.

Take more photos of yourself

There have been so many times when I’ve been too shy to ask someone to take my photo in a place and I’ve almost always regretted it. After eight years of travel, I probably only have around 200 photos of me around the world. Photos of the beautiful places you visit are great and all, but when you get home, they’re not all that different from the ones everyone else has taken there, too. Photos with you in them are special and they’ll mean a lot more to you when you look back at them.

Back up everything in multiple places

There have been so many times when I’ve been too shy to ask someone to imagine how you’d feel if you lost every single photo from your trip. You really don’t want that to happen, so back everything up, in multiple places. You can have copies of your photos in the laptop, back all of the photos up to an external hard drive, and use abt cloud platform to backup the entire contents of your laptop to the cloud.

Bring ear plugs and a sleep mask

Every local city has its own language and traditions so You’ll gain more If you are joining a group tour or have a plan to share hotel/hostel room then you must have earplugs to any unavoidable noises you could disturb by or the same way you can be distracted by any light source so sleep mask is the best solution to that problem.

Travel in off season to save money and avoid the crowds

the off-season is a favorite time to travel for most of the traveler. The weather is usually mildest, everything is more affordable than in peak season, and there are fewer people visiting, too.

Give friends n family copies of your itinerary

From a safety perspective, it’s good to have several people back home who know where you’ll be. Especially while traveling in remote areas where some mobile signals can suffer, your friend n family should know which area/hotel you could be, so they can call you direct hotel landline to contact you. If you travel by a travel company then you can share your guide/driver number with your loved once.

Pack your luggage the night before travel

A professional traveler always loves to pack luggage at night so it will save time on the next morning to save travel time and always try to wake up and start travel to the next destination in the early morning.

Try the local food

Food is the most recommended way to get to know a place and food better. Don’t ask what it is, just put it in your mouth and see if you like it. If you put your guard up, you might miss out on some unusual and delicious local cuisine.

Get up Early

It has been observed tourists get up late and go for a destination late and reach the back hotel at night. As compared to the best routine of travelers who wakes up early and visits tourist points before getting crowded causing excellent photographs. photos of natural places in crowded places can’t provide that feeling that comes in isolation. Another fact of visiting lakes in the early morning provides you surrounding reflection to provide extraordinary photos.

Visit the local markets

Local markets are the favorite way to get to know a place and locals better. The best thing could be to love checking out the strange foods, seeing how the locals shop, and discovering what’s popular in a particular country. Night markets in Pakistan Northern areas are especially fun!

Give respect and take respect

Always try to give respect to others during tour especially Tour guides, porters, waiters, Hotel staff. They are with you to provide services, by providing service you will taking respect from them. If you get any problem from any of them then there is a way to describe the problem and find a better solution in a respectful manner rather then using hard words.

Inquire facilities before time

Always try to give respect to others during tour especially Tour guides, porters, waiters, Hotel staff. They are with you to provide services, by providing service you will taking respect from them. If you get any problem from any of them then there is a way to describe the problem and find a better solution in a respectful manner rather then using hard words.

Research about Travel and Transport first

Before Tour booking a tourist must-read plan sent by a tour operator to understand how many hours travel have to do each day and what is road condition there to avoid any excuses