☰Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park

Hazarganji means "of a thousand treasures" — legend has it that armies passing this way (Bactrians, Scythians, Mongols, then the great migrating waves of Pashtuns) buried a thousand treasures in the folds of these mountains. Today the park, twenty kilometres southwest of Quetta, is best known for its protected population of straight-horned markhor, the dramatic wild goat that is Pakistan's national animal. The park covers 32,500 acres at altitudes between 2,000 and 3,200 metres. Park rangers can guide you on the access trails; a small natural-history museum sits near the entrance and the Forest Department maintains a rest house five kilometres inside the park for overnight stays.