The Princess of Hope (Urdu: امید کی شہزادی) is a natural rock formation in the Hingol National Park of Lasbela in Balochistan, Pakistan.
It is of the type known as a hoodoo or "fairy chimney" and which could fancifully be construed (see mimetolith) as resembling a crowned and skirted female figure looking toward the horizon.
[2] The curiously shaped rock pinnacle is located in the Hingol National Park in the Lasbela District of the province of Balochistan,[3] the mountainous landscape of which is riven with picturesque gorges and features unusual formations of mud and rock, shaped into their present forms by the forces of erosion.
[1] The formation was given the name Princess of Hope by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who visited Pakistan - including the Hingol National Park - in the year 2002 as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
The name (conceived by Jolie on the spot as a spontaneous, personal reaction to the form of the monolith) stuck, having evidently appealed to then-current local sensibilities.