Mushkpuri Top

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Mushkpuri is located above the Nathia Gali Hills in Nathia Gali Union Council.

Mushkpuri Top (Template:Langx) is a Template:Convert mountain in the Nathia Gali Hills, in the Circle Bakote Region of Abbottabad District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan. It is Template:Convert north of Islamabad, just above Dunga Gali in the Nathia Gali area of Ayubia National Park. It is the second highest peak in the Galyat Region after Miranjani which is located at Template:Convert. Much of the mountain is covered with Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests. In 1858 following a survey carried out during the British Raj it was described as being "clothed with deodar to its summit, and pines, firs, oaks, rhododendrons, walnuts, and other forest trees."

The peak

The route from Nathia Gali on western side of mountain is a steady and Template:Convert climb. The mountain also has a route on the Dunga Gali side, with a steeper slope. There is a bird sanctuary on this side created with the help of the European Union.

From the top of Mushkpuri peak, on the eastern edge of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the following areas can be seen: — Circle Bakote, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Jhelum River, the Bagh District of Azad Kashmir, in the south the city of Murree and the Murree Tehsil, as well as Islamabad.

Gallery

• Mushkpuri mountain and the Nathia Gali in Ayubia National Park
  Mushkpuri mountain and the Nathia Gali in Ayubia National Park
• The top of Mushkpuri peak
  The top of Mushkpuri peak
• View from Mushkpuri
  View from Mushkpuri
• Conifer forests on the mountain.
  Conifer forests on the mountain.
• Mushkpuri Top
  Mushkpuri Top

See also

• List of mountains in Pakistan
• Galyat region - the local region and its towns
• Muree - adjacent in the Murree District

References

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