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Travel expenses include:

1. airport pickup on your day of arrival and private transportation to your hotel
2. all transfers from hotel to National Airport or bus station, etc and back
3. Accommodation: Islamabad: *** Hotel Islamabad Hillview , Chilas: Shangri La or similar, Skardu: Concordia Motel or similar
4. Hotels with breakfast, lunch and dinner
5. All accommodation based on double room, double tent
6. Transport in air-conditioned 9-seater minibus for 1-5 persons, in 22-seater minibus for 6-9 persons, in 4x4 jeep for up to 4 persons from Skardu to Akole and Hushe to Skardu
7. Airfare Islamabad to Skardu (one-way) to the cultural and city sightseeing private guides private
8. transfer and entrance fees (as stated in the program)
9. a very experienced, well English speaking guide, help guide from 10 persons
10. meals three times a day: breakfast (tea, coffee, jam, bread, porridge, cornflakes). Lunch (various hot food, with cheese, biscuits, canned fish). 3-course dinner menu (soup, rice, lentils, vegetables, the first days also meat and chicken)
11. Camping gear: 2-person tents with sleeping pads
12. An experienced cook who prepares continental, Pakistani and Chinese dishes; Kitchen tent with all necessary kitchen utensils
13. a dining tent with folding tables (groups from 5 persons)
14. folding chairs with backrest
15. Groups of 1-4 people dine in bad weather in the kitchen tent
16. a toilet tent , sometimes solid toilets
17. necessary carriers with good Equipment carries up to 25 kg (12.5 kg of luggage per trekker, unused luggage can be stored at the hotel), if necessary rent for pack animals and their drivers
18. for guide, cook and carrier collectively paid salary
19. for guides, cook and porters on difficult treks and high passes around the 5000 m additional. Fee for equipment, camping food, tent tar, kerosene - according to the Ministry of Tourism's Law
20. for guides, cook and porters Life insurance
21. Trekking Permits, Natural Park Maintenance Fee, Summit Permits, all state and local taxes, if necessary
22. First- aid equipment for the crew
23. if necessary ropes, ice axes for the guides
24. return transfer from the hotel to the departure time to the International airport

Not included in the cost are:

1. International flights to Pakistan and back
2. visa fees for Pakistan
3. All personal expenses
4. Cola, Fanta and mineral water
5. All alcoholic drinks
6. Gratuities for the team and donations
7. Personal travel insurance such as international health insurance (please send a copy) and possibly luggage insurance (a helicopter flight costs about 6000 USD and has to be paid in advance, or has to be confirmed by the insurance company before)
8. for camping and lodge treks you need your own warm sleeping bag
9. first-aid kit and medicines
10. personal climbing equipment: for Mountaineering z. Trekking poles, harness, crampons, ice axes, jumars, carabiners, and abseiling
11. for smaller 5000 mountain climbs, possibly light ferries (chords)
12. all additional activities and optional tours deviating from the itinerary
13. unforeseen extra costs: for example, in case of impassability of a path due to landslide, high snow or flooding. For charter flights, flight cancellations, strikes u. This may include additional hotel accommodation, meals, transfers, transportation costs or higher and additional flight charges, which the customer must pay in each case on the spot. Riding horses while trekking.
14. even with short-term price increases, tax increases, higher admission and permit costs u. a. by the state the customer must settle the difference.
15. in case of illness or accident of a customer and thus premature termination of his trek, the travel expenses can not be refunded. It is common for the victim to be escorted back to the place of departure by a guide and porter and the rest of the group to continue their planned trek. The additional transport charges, accommodation and meals must be paid extra.
16. All service not mentioned above