Conceptual Pakistan

I was planning the venture of my life. There are places in Pakistan where flowers from heaven bloom, butterflies play hide and seek in the grassy fields, rivers are so transparent that one can see through to the bottom, where sky is so full of...

    What! Am I seeing? Is it real or am I day dreaming? Butterflies! Many of them; colorful and gentle; chasing each other in lush green fields full of flowers, surrounded by majestic mountains of Himalaya in bright sunlight. Yes! It was a sunny...

  Kalash Tourism is thriving and one can find small hotels with reasonable facilities in Kalash. It was internationally famous place as Greeks claim Kalash people, decedents of Alexander the great and the unique culture of this small community has also attracted foreign visitors for...

  Chilam Joshi festival, yes it’s a world famous festival in Pakistan and I had never heard the name of it before 11th May 2018. One of my student shared a post about this festival, asking, “Sir what is your plan? Let’s go to this...

Part 4: Kumrat Valley It took us less than two hours to reach back to Jazbanda. On our way back Sattar told me that the group of young boys and girls did not reach to Katora Lake they went back from the small lake way...

Part 3: Katora Lake Junaid was very excited on the other hand Sattar was calm and casual as usual and I was hoping that this track to Katora Lake would not be as steep as the track to Jazbanda. We were told that it would...

Part 2: Jazbanda At last I was at Jazbanda, it was amazing one could see snow covered peaks all around this lush green meadow. Sattar and Junaid were offering Magrib prayer when I reached to them. Camp was ready for camping I put my backpack...

Part 1: The Journey to Jandarai “I shall never come to the mountains again; this is my last venture. What have I done to myself? This is crazy. I have come too far in love of mountains. I should stop it now. I hope, I...

Day 2: It was very early in the morning when I woke up; I remember it was still dark outside. I got out of camp and went to the stream to freshen up a little. I was thinking to brush my teeth and wash my...

The Journey begins: “We are going to Chitta Katha Lake tonight” Abdul Sattar called me at 5 pm and said. He asked me what other places he could visit in his four days trip to Kashmir, as I had visited Kashmir twice. I gave him...