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Billman: custom tours of northern Pakistan

Website for Billman, a Lahore tour operator running private trips to northern Pakistan: a 3D map of the North, eight trip plans and a price calculator that sends the plan on WhatsApp.

Fig. 1 — Billman
Engagement
Studio project, designed and built by us
Client
Billman
Category
Web app
Live site
billman.pk ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Billman plans private trips from Lahore and Islamabad to northern Pakistan: Hunza, Skardu, Fairy Meadows, Naran, Swat, Neelum and Chitral, for honeymoons, families, friends, companies and schools. Customers usually ask on WhatsApp what a trip costs and how long it takes. The site answers both before they write.

What we built

  • Fly over the North: a 3D satellite map of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalaya. Tap a place and the camera flies low over the real terrain to it, then opens a collage of real photos
  • 69 places and 8 trips: each trip has a day-by-day plan, its best season and the groups it suits
  • Plan and price: pick a trip, start city, dates, travellers, rooms, hotel level, vehicle and extras, and see a price range, a per-person price, a cost breakdown and the itinerary update as you go
  • Season-aware routes: trips that cross Babusar Top switch to the Karakoram Highway outside June to October
  • WhatsApp-first booking: the finished plan goes to Billman in one tap, with a WhatsApp button on every page
  • Search-ready: a page for every trip and place, with social cards and a sitemap

How it is built

  • Next.js and React with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, hosted on Vercel, with no backend to run
  • Mapbox GL JS with satellite imagery and real 3D elevation, and an automatic fallback to open satellite and terrain tiles if Mapbox refuses a request
  • Trips, places and rates kept as plain data files, so Billman's details can change without touching the code

Where it stands

Live at billman.pk.

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