Sacred Rocks Hunza valley

Introduction:

From Ganesh village you can walk on across the road bridge to the so-called sacred rocks, about 400 meters beyond the bridge, between the KKH and the Hunza River below Altit Fort. Called “the guest book of the Silk Route” by professor A H Dani. Pakistan’s famous archaeologist, the rocks record 2,000 years of travels along the road to and from China. The inscriptions are in Kharoshthi, Barhmi, Gupta, Sogdian and Tibetan. The rock carving and inscriptions around Ganesh village give proof of the Buddhist influence in the area. The inscriptions are in four different scripts and the carvings are of human and animals figures.