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Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Craft towns, living traditions, and indigenous culture
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Riverside villages along the Neelum, where the valley narrows to a green corridor facing the far bank across the water.
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Terraced rice fields, wooden Kashmiri houses, and pine ridges in one of Azad Jammu and Kashmir's most picturesque valleys, open in the warmer months only.
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The capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, at the confluence of the Neelum and Jhelum rivers, and the gateway to both the Neelum and Jhelum valleys.
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The Neelum Valley's largest town, framed by snow peaks, and home to the ancient Sharda Peeth university ruins, once one of South Asia's great centres of learning.
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The last village of the Neelum Valley at 7,500 ft, wooden houses and meadows where the Kishenganga River enters Pakistan and becomes the Neelum.
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A 16th-century fort above the Neelum River in Muzaffarabad, its red sandstone ramparts overlooking the city and the river gorge below.
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A high viewpoint around 2,000m above Dheer Kot, combining forest scenery with an important place in AJK's history as the site of a gathering held on 23 August 1947.
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A compact hill town at about 1,372m and the administrative centre of Sudhnuti District, surrounded by green ridges above the Azad Pattan corridor.
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A lively hill town on the Poonch River system and the natural base for Tattapani, Teenda, Sehnsa, and the valleys of southern Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
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A green valley landscape in eastern Kotli District where springs, wooded hills, and village roads lead into Banah Valley, with documented rock-cut caves nearby.
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A 16th-17th-century hill fort surrounded on three sides by the waters of Mangla reservoir, associated with Kashmir's Muslim and later Sikh rulers, reached most memorably by boat.
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A small mountain lake at about 975m in Samahni Valley, watched over by a historic stone fort linked to Afghan, Sikh, and Dogra rule, and local tradition of Emperor Jahangir's final journey.
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Sakardu is a well-known town of Azad Kashmir.
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