CHITRAL Landscape Photography

Cliff, sky scraper It is not a skyscraper building, it is cliff near Kuju Payeen. This view fascinate me always. I took this picture some years ago. This naked rock had protected the village from intruders in past. In past people had defended their villages by building some defence packets at safe points over the village. This rock was more suitable to build a packet for defence. 

Posted by Javed Younus on  Sunday, December 20, 2015

Although Pumkin is the vegitable grown in hot summer but it is  called the vegitable of winter because all over the world people  use it in winter. In Chitral, specially people love it. In Chitrali language it is called "Shreen Alook". According to wikipedia.com  alone in  US its production is about 1.5 billion pounds  (680,000,000 kilograms or 680,000 tonnes). In Chitral production data for Pumpkin is not availabel. But it is  very popular among the masses. In winter every household in some way arrange  minimum one or two rather buy it or beg it  from some one. Here people  use it  as main dish coocked with more spices. Some time use it as sauce made of it along side main dish. 

Wood Work, Chitral, Pakistan History of wood carving in Chitral is very old. One can find its evidence in almost every house. But not patronizing by the government, it has declined.  Some good artisans have transmitted it to new generation. Mr, Rasool Muhammad of Mori Bala is one of them. He has mastered  his son Rashid in wood carving. The father of Rasool Muhammad; Loot Ustad, was a great master in wood carving. He was very famous in his time. He had decorated so many houses and important government buildings. DC office is one of them. Wali ur Rehaman(late) house situated at Zargarandeh is also decorated by him. This  pic is made by Rasool Muhammad and is showing his aptness in his work. 

Lawari Top in early winter before closure of the top. Taken from a 1 Mega Pixel mobile camera.

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