A number of treks begin from Nathiagali and range out in every direction. Each of the routes passes through lush green pine forest. At every turn the trekker is presented with a new beautiful scene of nature with surprisees and attractions provided by flora & funa colourful birds, insects, animals and plants. A few of the main treks are:
* Mushkpuri Trek
* Meranjani Trek
* Ayubia National
Park
* Dugri Trek
* Dungagli Pipe-line Trek
Mushkpuri Trek:
This is a three hours safe hill trek to Mukshpuri Top and is the
second highest
Hill of Galyat at 9452 feet/3150 metres above sea level approx. This trek
start
starts from the Pines Hotel in Nathigali spiralling upwards through the
beautiful
green Pine Forest displaying natural beauty. Hikers on their way to Mushkpuri
top are presented with colourful fairy fragmented carpet of flowers in
the green
Meadwos of Mushkpuri.(especially at the end of the rainy season).
From here one trek descends to the other side towards Dungagali giving
you the bird eye view of Ayubia National Park down below, this trek is
not
advisable for for people with fear of height the park starts from Dungagali
and
extend towards the river Jehlum. The trek up to Mushkpuri Top can also
be started from Dungagali. It's a good trek for the famalies to go out and
enjoy the
beautiful Natural Pine Forest of Galyat. There is a very small water spring
at the
top in a small nullah cutting
Meranjani Trek:
Meranjani is the highest hill of Galyat at 9754 feet above sea level
approx. Two
treks to the Meranjani Hill Top starts from the same point in Nathiagali
near down and the below famous Governer House, one of the beautiful English Rule
establishments in Galyat. One trek takes you in semi-circle around Mreanajani
slowly ascending towards the top through a hill village Namlimera, displaying
the style of a Hill Village Culture, this is a very easy and safe trek for
famalies venturing to the top, however it takes a little longer time. The second takes you spirally up through the low ascending hills in the
forest towards the top. This trek is little hard as you gain height at
every step
and almost at the angle of 60 to 65 degrees near the top as you start the
last
stretch of the trek. This trek is advisable for young ones above 12 years
of age
and adults upto 45 years with sound health. There is no water avalible
on this
trek, one must take water as you surely would need it.
Ayubia National Park:
This 2 miles long trek is the most intresting and straight walk
in the Pine Hills of
Galyat passing right through the heart of Ayubiaa National Park.This park
starts
from Dungagali and extend towards river Jehlum across Ayubia and Khanaspur
boundries with numer of small villages located here and there as villages
were
there before the official establishment of the National Park. This park
host a
large number of beautiful birds, planst, insects and a few four leged animal
species. People who are intrested in bird watching in Galyat must vist
this park and
if they are very lucky they can have the gimps of the hill cats. Brown
Monkeys
are located easilky. The most common seen are the Yellow Beaked Magpie, Red Blood and Yellow Body Finches, White Chiek or Crested Grey Finch and
many other birds. A family starts walking from Dungagali reaches Ayubia
in
around 2:30 hours, most of the famalies use this route whenever going toAyubia
from Nathiagali (walking).
Dugri Trek:
Dugri is one of the most dense pine forest reserve in Galyat and
is know by the
name (Home of Leapords) as the place is quite isolated from the populated
road access areas in Galyat.The trekkes are offered two choices here either
they can trek to Dugri rest house by the longer trek through Namlimera
around
the Meranjani hill or can take the shorter trek (tough one) to Meranjani
Hill top
and continue trekking through the forest towards Dugri rest house which
could
be seen clearly from Meranajani Top but inactual it takes four hours of
good
walking small trek
From Thandiani to reach Dugri rest house trekking duration takes two day
and one night at Berangali.From Nathiagali to reach Dugri rest house the
treking
takes one full day via Meranjani trek staring from Governer House Nathagali. This trek is advisable for pople with some good exprience of treking in
any pine
forest with camping before. Water is again advise to be carried along.