Travel Through Beautiful Pakistan.: Sharan Forest

I have traveled to Sharan along with my 6 friends from the platform of K2 Kings Tourists Association of Pakistan. It was a wonderful journey and we have enjoyed it alot. We started our journey in mid night at 1:45am from Babu Sabu, Lahore. We reached at Paras around 4:00pm and after the lunch break we started traveling towards Sharan Jangle. Once we see the road from Kaghan road it frightened us. It was like a snake moving upward to the mountain and on some places it looks just straight up. Anyways we started our journey and as we crossed the bridge the road was steep moving upward and it was quite rough road with round stones. As we crossed the first dangerous height I stopped to see the moral of riders and there, one of the rider came to me and asked, look dear what are we going to do? It is like hell, STOP and let us go back. I along with other encouraged him to move forward and again journey started. After that I tried to move and not to stop. In the meanwhile we crossed a village named "Bayla" and just after that i saw we are only 3 and others are not behind us. We waited for 15 minutes and there was no body behind us. There was something wrong. We moved back on foot because it was very difficult to turn the bike and go back, so we 2 started moving back after some time we saw our fellows. There was problem with the bike of friend who was saying to go back. We arranged a jeep with the help of local and sent him back to Paras and started our journey. During all this process daylight vanished, it was maghrib time. From here, the horrible journey started. There was nothing to see other than the lights of bikes and rough road with fear of wild. After covering 4 to 5km we were at a point where there were 2 ways. Now where to go? We stayed there for few minutes and thanks God there were 2 locals coming from one way. They asked us to go to the way on right side. After covering the distance of few kilometers suddenly thick forest started. Now on our both side there were huge trees. At that time i think everyone was afraid of inside and showing as he is not :). The road was looking like it will not end up for the whole life. The only hope which our club president told us was pipeline going in between the road. He encouraged us and told us to follow this pipeline it will take us to our destination. Again the journey started with fear of bear, leopard, baboons and wild dogs. After covering 3 to 4 kilometers we finally saw the wooden milestone hanging along a tree. We all take a sigh of relief and thanked Almighty Allah that we are on the right way and near to destination.
From this point TCKP – Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhutnkhwa site was almost 1.5km away. Finally we were at our destination. At that time, as we entered the place we saw the solar lights on the huts and far away there was moon on the sky. These moments were unforgettable. There Mr. Ghalib who was waiting for us arranged night stay. After relaxing, having joks and chit chat for some time everyone went into the world of dreams with hope that how this romantic place will be in the morning?...... Continued

We visited Sharan Valley on 21st to 23rd October 2016. This tour was amazing and we faced many challenges and at the end we see the ultimate beauty of Nature! It was Sharan listen this name many years back but now i think what i have listened about Sharan was less. It is beautiful place that can't be described in words only you can go and see the beauty by yourself.

The 16 kilometers dirt and stone road to Sharan branches off from the main Mansehra-Naran highway at Paras, 79 kilometers from Mansehra and 31 km from balakot. There is an KPK Forest Department Rest House and a Youth Hostel (which are very pathetic in condition) in Sharan and now KPK Govt. has installed very beautiful Camping Pods where tourists can stay. Transport to Sharan can be arranged from paras, Kawai or Balakot. But we have travelled this on our bikes Suzuki GS 150.
Below are few pictures taken in Sharan Forest.