Khyber is a small Wakhi village in Gojal, sitting along the Karakoram Highway between Gulmit and Sost at around 2,700 metres. It is one of the lesser-known stops in Upper Hunza — most travellers pass through without stopping — but it has its own quiet charm and a couple of reasons to break the journey.
The setting is classic Gojal: a strip of irrigated terraces and apricot orchards squeezed between the Hunza river and the steep flanks of the Karakoram. Two small hydropower stations on the side streams supply electricity to neighbouring villages, and the green of the cultivated land contrasts sharply with the bare grey-brown slopes above. Like elsewhere in Gojal, the people are Ismaili Wakhi speakers, almost universally literate, and famously welcoming.
There is no hotel of note and only a couple of roadside tea shops. If you want to stay, ask in the village — homestays are arranged informally and the family that hosts you will likely insist on cooking dinner. The walk up the side valley behind the village leads to good views over the river and back towards the snow peaks above Passu.