The usual monotonous scenery - dry mountains everywhere with absolute zero population and a river flowing down below. Not a single restroom on the way. No cellular network. It's funny that you come to see mountains but you see too many of those in one go, and you get sick of them.
This is in line with my impressions from my tour in the Himalayas in 2017... I was breathless, speechless and literally enraptured by the atmosphere - but at the same time found it hostile and repellent. I was looking for solitude, but found confinement in all the vastness. Maybe I'll manage to complete my trip...
The mountains here are dry with almost no greenery. I wonder at mother nature that every mountain range is different from the other in terms of landscape, color, rockiness, greenery and ambience. When we visit such places, it does feel like too much of the same rocky structures surrounding and engulfing you. But at the same time, one can't stop marvelling at these giant beasts.
We from plain areas can appreciate them for short periods after abstinence of long periods. 😌
I have literally felt that with mountains of skardu. I would wander in night in front of our restroom lodges and sometimes could feel the breath squeezed in my chest... Sometimes, I would chalk it upto, maybe, low oxygen level at high altitudes. But, there was definitely a sense of confinement sometimes!!!
You are so right. Mountains of Naran & Kaghan (the fairy meadows) feel like a breath of fresh air. As you go forward, the mountains get bigger and it feels like all the life and green is being sucked out.
I get what you are saying. I didn't feel this way when I was in Hunza, but Skardu... although equally beautiful, made me feel trapped. The scenery along the road to Skardu was so off-putting, I'd never want to travel on that route again. I couldn't put a finger on what I was feeling at that time. But yeah, I felt confined.
I thought it was just me because my husband couldn't relate to me on this.
Next time, check out Pakistan's version of Himalaya. But if you don't want to feel confined again, we have pretty mountains too. ;-)
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