Zajgay Hot Springs

Zajgay Hot Springs is a natural thermal spring in the Gojal region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, where chloride-rich geothermal waters emerge in the extreme high-altitude landscape of the Upper Hunza valley near the Chinese border — a region of extraordinary geological drama where the Karakoram Highway crosses the Khunjerab Pass (4,693 m) into Xinjiang and the famous Attabad Lake was created by a 2010 landslide that buried part of the former valley. The springs are used by the Wakhi-speaking communities of the Gojal region for therapeutic bathing in one of Pakistan's most scenically spectacular and geologically active zones, where major earthquakes and landslides periodically reshape the landscape of towering rock walls and glacial rivers. The Upper Hunza setting — with the Passu Cones, Batura Glacier, and the vast Karakoram peaks framing the valley — provides some of the world's most dramatic mountain scenery as the backdrop for hot spring bathing in this remote Pakistani frontier.