Ancient Kings Used to Live Here but then a Catastrophe Happened

Dmytro Komarov visited Karakoram - mountain system in Pakistan. This is one of the most mystical and mysterious places on the planet. This place is located on the collision line of the plates, so Pakistanis believe that it has extraordinary powers. Supernatural phenomena control people's lives here and it is said that it is at the collision of the plates where extraordinary shamans who can foresee the future live.
These places are associated with the mystical land Shangri-La, which holds the ancient secrets of mankind and the secrets of longevity. A great many expeditions have died trying to find the legendary treasures.
Dmytro arrived at the valley of the Hunza River, where the Hunzaite people lived for hundreds of years. The kings of this people trace their history back to the conquests of Alexander. Some 50 years ago a real king ruled here, but now it is the territory of modern Pakistan, and the kings have lost their influence and merged with the local people. Dmitry promised to find the descendants of the local dynasty of emirs in order to find out more details.
We will visit Altit - a local fort, which along with its neighbor - Baltit fort, for hundreds of years served as royal palaces to local rulers and protected the population from enemy raids.
Visiting the royal palace we will learn how the ancient kings lived, how their castles differ from European castles and what was considered a real luxury of the Hunzai emirs.
Then, along the Karakoram Highway, we will visit Attabad Lake - a place according to the predictions of local shamans 200 years ago, a great tragedy was to happen.
And it happened on 4th January 2010 as the result of a major landslide in Attabad villiage. The landslide killed twenty people and blocked the flow of the Hunza River for five months
At the cost of dozens of lives and a natural cataclysm of colossal proportions, such an amazing beauty was formed that it is now one of the most visited tourist regions of Pakistan. Through the story of a local family affected by this tragedy, we learn the amazing history of this place.

Timestamps:
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00:00 Introduction - what we will visit in this episode
02:33 A short history of Hunza region
05:33 Arriving at Altit in Hunza Valley in order to visit royal palace which is 1100 years old!
07:59 How the local emirs lived - welcome to the king's bedroom!
16:08 On the Karakoram Highway you can accidentally come across a gorgeous view of the eight-thousand-meters-mountain - Nanga Parbat
18:02 Ten years ago this lake did not exist! We arrived at Attabad Lake. A short history of what actually happened 4th January 2010
19:44 A couple stories from locals who survived that landslide
24:13 Together with a father of one local family we will visit the remainings of a place that used to be a big village - Attabad. Almost whole villiage was destroyed during the landslide
37:06 Together with the castle keeper we will study the history and life of the dynasty of local emirs
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About World Inside Out:
Dmytro Komarov is famous Ukrainian TV host and author of "The World Inside Out" alongside with Ukraininan filmmaker Oleksandr Dmytriev travel to countries that are not usually visited by tourist tours.
They manage to go to places where a man has never set a foot. Dmytro himself creates the route, learns the features of the new place in advance and tries to survive on his own in the practical primitive conditions. But the real thing is that he is actually trying to get used to the role of the natives, not just like a stranger but as part of the team, actively trying new crafts and ways of getting food, learning the local traditions and laws.
Dmytro and Oleksandr have visited more than 20 countries, and without a doubt these were not passing journeys but thorough cultural studies.

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