CHITRAL Landscape Photography

Paper Birch Tree, Chitral, Pakistan, Our group is crossing through Paper Birch trees in Koghuzi Gol, Chitral. Koghuzi Gol is is famous for transhumance. Too many herders take their goats to Koghuzi Gol  in summer. Koghzi Gol is rich in grazing areas.

Paper Birch Chitral Pakistan Paper Birch tree is one of the oldest native trees of Chitral (Boliak o Kan in local language). Industrially its wood is used in the production of paper. Local goatkeepers use it to preserve Cheese in it. The goatkeepers peel off sheets according to their requirment and wrape it arround the Cheese. It bark is as thin as paper. It is to be said that in old times it was used for writing purpuse directly. In Koghuzi Gol only number of countable on finger tips have reamind.