The fabled Kingdom of Hunza (Pakistan) is situated in a spectacularly narrow gorge amidst the Karakoram Mountain Range, between China, Afghanistan and India. So remote was the region, it wasn't until 1887 that Sir Francis Younghusband became the first European to reach the area, during the Great Game. The Hunza Valley is so beautiful and removed from 'the main track' it was said to be the prototype for the mythical Shangri-La in James Hilton's novel Lost Horizons. The delicate softness and subtlety of the terraced fields stand in sharp contrast to the surrounding mountains ... it is a paradise. Nature creates all without erring ... she acts without contrivance or special intention ... stay still to absorb a boundless imagination.