Pilgrimage Hills near Pankot Palace

Hazy rolling hills stretch as the pilgrimage road to Pankot Palace. Elephants plod westward through dust and sun-drenched slopes, their silhouettes stark against a blood-orange horizon at afternoon's end. The mythic landscape compresses days of transit into one frame of endurance and isolation, heat bleaching the terrain while dust clouds mark heavy steps toward the palace's distant white towers. Quiet vastness underscores the caravan's burden and the adventure's growing stakes.