My Top 10 Best Moments In Pakistan 🇵🇰

The last video of the series, and a compilation rather than a new day — Harry picks his own highlights from five weeks and recuts them. Almost everything in it is already recorded on the pages it came from, so this page is an index to those rather than a second telling.

Its value is the ranking itself: it is Harry saying which of fifty videos mattered, and the answer is weighted heavily towards Hunza and towards evenings with people rather than sights.

Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles. Where a figure here differs from the original video’s, the original is treated as the source — see the log.

What he picks, and where it is written up

• A lift from a stranger on the back of a bike, and the hunt for cheese paratha after dark — the running theme of the city days.
• Hussaini Bridge, the crossing itself, and the comfort-zone argument he makes halfway over: fear only harms the person feeling it, and it is what people warned him about Pakistan.
• The coffee stand on the far bank of that bridge — hand-beaten, cups warmed first, and the performance that goes with it.
• The village recording studio in Hunza, four instruments layered live and twenty people in the room by the end. His own pick as the moment of the trip, which is also what he says in the Q&A.
• The Karachi–Lahore overnight sleeper, with the compartment bought out so they could work — and the catering crew, which is the one thing here not recorded anywhere else.
• The Wagah border ceremony — thousands of people where he had expected a hundred, both flags lowered simultaneously, and a deliberately crushing handshake from a guard.
• The monkeys on the approach in Islamabad, where one charged him to within half a metre and locals gave him flatly contradictory advice about whether it was safe to walk through.
• The street barber in Islamabad: a 200-rupee shave, a 3,000-rupee tip, and the shop owner taking a third of it out of the barber’s hand in front of him.
• The traditional Hunza music and dance evening, and being told he had picked up ninety percent of the moves.
• The Lahore grooming package, four hours and 17,400 rupees — about $95 — including a clay mask, a manicure and a pedicure.

The one new thing in it: feeding the train

The only material here that isn’t in the bundle already is the sleeper’s kitchen. Harry is let in to film, and it is an assembly line: one man cooking the chicken, one plating rice, one wrapping, one stacking. Roughly a minute per meal, and 200 to 300 meals to make. With no shared language, he watches it and says the obvious thing, which is that they are working very hard.

It sits oddly against the advice on the same journey — several locals told him not to eat or drink anything served on board, and he didn’t.

Extracted pages

• Pakistan
• Hunza Valley
• Hussaini Bridge
• Wagah Border
• Lahore
• Karachi
• Islamabad
• Mac