Makran Coast

The Makran coast is one of Pakistan's strangest and most beautiful landscapes: wind-carved sandstone figures like the Princess of Hope and the Balochistan Sphinx, the mud volcanoes and lunar canyons of Hingol National Park, and the long, almost-empty beach at Kund Malir where the Arabian Sea meets the desert.

We'll be straight with you. The coast sits in Balochistan, which foreign-office advisories (UK FCDO, US State Department) currently rate do-not-travel, and foreign visitors need a provincial permit and a police escort to go at all. For that reason we don't sell it as one of our standard journeys. If it's on your list, write to us, we'll tell you honestly how conditions look, and more often than not point you to somewhere just as remarkable that we can run with confidence.