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Tourist season starts in April and ends around mid October. This in largely because of could winters in Hunza and the fact that most visitors are en route to China, via the Khunjerab Pass, which closes in winter.
For the intrepid traveller, however, the area offers many rewards to the winter visitor. As the winter snows cover the mountain slopes, the scattered villages are surrounded in vibrant while. The mountain monarchs, the Himalayan ibex, decend in search of clumps of grass on which to feed, and every the elusive snow leopard becomes less wary at this time of year in its desperate search for prey.
Attacks on livestock are not uncommon nowadays, due to population reduction in its major prey species, the ibex. Unfortunately, these starvation induced attacks do nothing to help this beautiful but scarce creature and it is often persecuted as a result.
