Awesome Photos From Andrew’s Trip To Northern Pakistan

Hey Sweet Hearts 🥰

Hope beating positively on the rhythm of life ♥️

I believe you gonna enjoy today’s post more because it provides some awesome glimpses of higher northern parts of our country Pakistan!  They are new to me as well as we have traveled to Kashmir but not much farther.  Once again heartfelt thanks to dear Sue who brought these stunning and remarkable images to me. Actually one of her close friends Andrew Heppleston has visited Up higher northern areas of Pakistan recently . Andrew joined the tourist group for two weeks trip . Sue found it interesting to share the link of photos with me because she knows that I have great fondness for travel and watching our strikingly beautiful areas of up north. If I haven’t mentioned this before then Sue and I talk on video call once in a while and it’s when she told me about it. I asked her if I can share photos on my blog and she asked Andrew ,special thanks to Andrew who allowed me to do so🙏🥰

I am sharing this message as well in which Andrew has mentioned the names of places he visited.

 Here is what Andrew said about his trip to Pakistan.  "First week we went up the Karakoram Highway ( a 810 miles highway that connects northern Pakistan to western China , the highway is known for the highest paved road in the world ) by jeep into Kashmir in northern Pakistan. Stunning Karakoram Range scenery, good food and really friendly people. High altitude passes, glaciers and trek to Nanga Parbat 8,126m base camp at 3,550m.  Second week in Northern Pakistan we explored the Hunza and Yasin valleys with huge glaciers, landslides and floods. Crossed the infamous 194m Hussaini suspension bridge and zip-lined back."

I found these photos incredible dear friends.it was amazing and such a pleasure to peek in higher and farther parts of my homeland that are famous for their breathtaking beauty throughout the world 🤗🥰♥️

  This photo has my two most favourite things in nature water and mountains,third is man mad but still serves nature’s purpose of connecting two ends , I felt grateful to Andrew while looking at each single image because being from northern part though not that higher I have great affection for these natural phenomena 🥹♥️

 Breathtaking! I used to stare at hills surrounding my village for hours as growing girl,they just fascinate me. They seem to say that a height can be achieved by slow and gradual movement in desired direction!

    I believe this is Andrew Hepleston  standing on Babusar top 13700ft high from sea level. Board behind him is showing names and distance of all places around it. All these places are very popular for national and international tourists. Andrew visited in June yet mountain peaks were still covered with snow which means when other parts were suffering with severely hot weather upper north was cold and pleasant!

   Another excellent shot of bare but very beautiful mountain, they look like their snow melted just a while ago,so neat and stunning 🤗

    Dear Sue had a zoom meeting with me this Saturday so we can go through the photos together,precious Gabi joined us as well. Sue asked why only men are out and no women. I told her that despite things are changing slowly here like other places our country too has few parts where people are conservative and women stay at home mostly. Men are seen out playing,chatting and dancing but women are not allowed to wander around. But it’s not true for all northern places. When we travelled to Kashmir a couple had good chat with hubby throughout the journey and I was happy to see how the wife was participating confidently. It was reflecting how minds are enlightening gradually☺️

    Polo is famous game of higher north here, Shandur polo ground is considered highest polo ground in the world where yearly festival takes place in July in which rival teams compete and cultural events are held. So many tourists go there to attend the festival.

    Ah ,that reminds me my childhood days when one of my uncle had two trucks, both were decorated so beautifully,one was run by eldest cousin.sometimes when trucks would get ready with loads of watermelon we children would rush to the place they were parked and our cousin would hand each with a watermelon.it was fun🤗 I grew up seeing such jewelled trucks and their walls written on wise phrases or best wishes 🥰 I can bet that such decorated trucks and beautiful uplifting quotes would have inspired so many who encountered with them. Talking with personal experience and observations! I consider this part of our culture not just fascinating but very important contribution to senses and perception of the people ♥️👍

    Very familiar sight as I grew up in tiny village. I recall those old beautiful days when people were much more close to each other and nature . After the harvest people would help each other out to carry such hay stocks or dry crop loads to drop at covered areas so rain can’t spoil them . In return people were favoured by similar help or portions of grans. Things are changed back in my town now as machines have replaced the people.but in rural areas progress is slow until now.thanks to hubby who recognised the corn man is carrying. Yes in thirty two years few things are blurred 😅

Another gorgeous truck embellished stunningly 👌♥️ it has three phases,first most above says “ God’s will “ prefers to faith that this journey from start to finish is on God’s will whether safe or harm everything is because God wants so! Second in Arabic on windscreen says” God is the best provider” 🙏 third below on the windscreen is a praise for the town driver belongs to it says long live town of  ,sorry couldn’t get the name correctly 😔 everything so positive and sweet isn’t it 🤗

I didn’t know but according to dear friend Sue Andrew told her that these horses were being taken to polo ground for the game. I wonder how that vehicle carried many horses and still running,maybe they don’t weigh more as I think they should be 

   Around the world people living in higher parts of the land look different than rest who live in plain land , this is really fascinating how nature favours everything in their growth so they can fit in and survive in certain places and conditions 🥰 this is view of simple family life with less opportunity to earn more. Talking through personal observations of past village life. Many men worked hard in fields, men with no piece of land did labour work in surrounding areas. Some flee to the big cities like my father to earn bread and few went to other countries of Middle East.

I assume this is Buddha’s temple from two thousand years back,such temples are scattered around the country but sadly not much cared by authorities specifically in northern parts.  This is impressive how Buddha’s message of love and peace was delivered throughout the subcontinent !

I think Andrew has captured a family sitting front of their house, it’s lovely picture despite lady has covered her face .what I find nice is that in June they have worn the warm clothes,how cool 🤗 we feel imprisoned in compressing excessive heat in June instead 😭but I am happy for them at least 🙏🥹♥️

                              A cute child with a pretty hat 🥰👍 

  Sue could spot a hut beside the water and I wish I could have stayed there for a while 🤗 such an elegant and tranquil place,captured with mastery I believe 🥹♥️

    Great. Shot of a man who reminded me of some old British army in red uniform with massive beard,I think i might saw that in some historical Netflix show

   Looks like it had been a water passage for long time but now water flows through it only in rainy seasons or when ice melts in summers ,I love that snowy peaks though 🥰

                   A busy bridge ,must be quite populated area 

     Mesmerising scenery and  intriguing  pattern of mountains that provoke curiosity to know how it formed that way, I mean very spiky peaks😄

A busy road indeed, maybe seeing cattle on busy road is rare sight for you but it’s pretty common here except the few big cities,everything though adds vibrancy of life to the this image 🤗👌♥️

    Captivating and spectacular view 😍😍😍♥️♥️♥️♥️ worth framing 🥰 fiery sunset colour has created a magical affect in this capture 🥹♥️loved it ♥️👍

    A sweet waving by little fairies,look how cute and pretty they look 🤗🥰♥️ so much happiness and excitement in their eyes and innocent smiles 🥰 may life treat these precious souls kindly ♥️🙏🥹♥️

Thank you for being with me so far dear Friends 🙏♥️

Your support is my strength 🥹🥰♥️

Please share your thoughts about Andrew’s photos,I am thankful he allowed me to post them on my blog ♥️🙏

Health,peace and happiness to you and to all you love 🥰♥️🙏

Happy Birthday And Some Beautiful Photos

 

Hello kind hearts 🥰

Hope beating on the rhythm of life with positivity and hope regardless of  odds 🙏

If you think I am bit late please accept my apologies. As you know that winter means a mild weather which allows people to visit each other often and attend family functions and gatherings. We are in the same situation these days dear friends.Even right now I am having guest at home .

On pleasant note dear Gabi our son’s girlfriend had a birthday on 7th of October 🥰 Dear Sue shared with me a clip of video of birthday gathering which is so sweet of her🤗🙏

I will trying to visit your blogs asap . Sharing a beautiful photo of birthday girl with her sweet boyfriend 🥰🥹♥️

Happy Birthday To Dear Gabi ,Wishing both of them a happy and prosperous life ameeen🥰🙏♥️

This photo is shared by younger son who visited some interesting place with friends,sorry forgot the name ,loved him looking at Buddha smilingly 🥹♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

                Our last day at out most favourite rental this year during summer trip to Islamabad 🥰

Taken in a saint’s shrine my friend asked me to visit while she was staying at our apartment,it was two to three kilometres away from where we stayed.I liked it’s  elegant architecture and soothing colour 🥰

     Few pictures of flowers I took during our evening walks in Islamabad 

                                         Isn’t it delightful 🤗

     One of the my most favourite flowers,they appear in our yard in mild weather but in Islamabad they were bloomed in July ♥️

       If I can remember correctly  dear friend Sue has shared the lovely sunset from one of the her trips 

                                           This gorgeous bloom smiled in our yard this summer 

            Lake view park Islamabad, a beautiful day and tranquil nature offers deep sense of healing 🥹

Heartfelt thanks for being with me precious friends, and thank you for all the supportive words you leave in comments 🥰🙏 I really appreciate your kindness  🙏♥️

Health ,peace and happiness to you and loved ones 🙏🥰

Freedom ! A poem by Me

He  was weird he was strange 

Tried hard though couldn’t change 

His  stupid  habit  of  loving  all 

Without boundaries 

Without man made wall

Some people would look him down 

For many he was such a clown 

Always ready to give up his will

Just to make others feel chilled 

It would leave some people annoyed 

Some puzzled and some surprised 

How a such thing is even credible ?

Doesn’t he  wanted to be respectable ?

Doesn’t he have some cast or name ?

With everyone this man is the same !

Most imprisoned in chains so hefty 

Couldn’t imagine that he was free 

From the shackles of  discrimination 

Cradling in the lap of realisation 

Of being able to see beyond closed doors 

Governing everything underlying force 

A Sad Transition Of Places Where Common People Lived Differently

 Hello Beautiful Souls ♥️

Hope finding life interesting despite all odds around the world!

I often think about the days of innocence that I lived not long ago. I think it’s just hardly three decades ago when world was peaceful place as compared to today. I mean don’t you feel that certain desperation , ruthlessness and selfishness have been rapidly growing recently?

I know that world was never a utopian place ever since it’s been created. But things were not that bad,specially before the arrival of media and internet. Like everything is made in pair knowledge comes with price  of depression,anxiety and constant stress over what is happening and what can happen next . When look carefully it seems so obvious that few power seeking individuals are pushing the world to the edge of destruction!

Anyway I was thinking about days of innocence. Actually hubby and me watch an interview show regularly,one episode daily while having our morning tea.  The guest actor was answering why new movies are not being made in Pakistan anymore. Specially when our country had fair and very successful history of creating beautiful and great movies rich in cultural flavours and moral values.The golden age of Pakistani movies is considered from 1960 to 1980. The guest replied that the downfall of success ratio accrued when basic way of entertainment available to the masses was snatched away by capitalism. The old cinema building were demolished or converted into something else. Those cinemas were easier and cheapest source for the public to escape the physical and mental hurdles of reality struggles . The new movie theatre were built in the other highly maintained locations called cineplex situated in shopping malls. Such places are great attractions for rich to show off but are simply beyond the approach of common people specially the labourers and those working on daily wages.  This was heartbreaking change for those who were deeply attached to this mode of entertainment since years . This shift hurt the self confidence and self esteem of a common man. He felt that he was unable to provide his family a simple way of pleasure and enjoyment!

Today only some can take advantage of cineplexes that are few and in big cities only. Filmmakers spend so much on making and marketing but loosing main audience is stopping them from making new movies.

Hubby and me have talked on this topic many times before,  specially when we go to cinema in Islamabad and watch movie. It makes me feel sad because I remember that not much longtime ago I also once was among those people who would enjoyed going cheap cinema on regular basis for long. Yes as I mentioned many times that I belonged to lower middle class family but luckily my parents and hubby’s as well fond of cinema. Both families were neighbours for few years . I was little girl then ,according to hubby less than six maybe. My parents and his parents both loved watching films. And because it was only way to enjoy after hectic day so it was a regular routine after dinner to watch movie together .Even this  small city had three cinemas can you believe. Our families would repeat the movie if all three movies in different places were watched. These are the memories told by hubby. When we moved to our native village my parents visited hubby’s family once or twice a year. So in my memory chest I too have very shiny pearls when we would stay here for a month or two during summer holidays ( my mom hated increasing heat afterwards but she said back then heat was bearable so she wouldn’t mind to stay for a while) 

We would spend days in playing with girl cousins but evenings would bring lots of vibration of family get together and outing adventure of movie watch. We children feel so excited about our coming adventure. Elders would get busy in choosing what to wear.Dinner was made and served before 8pm and everybody was dressed up and ready to go for theatre.That  joy and excitement was something so priceless I miss today. It makes me think how important is being carefree attitude in life and having days of innocence when our minds were pure and quiet,no noise of worries or unrest in emotions because thousands of crazy things to deal with.

I wonder if you all or few friends have witnessed similar or any other kind of such sad  transition ?

Thanks for bearing with me dear friends 🥰🙏

Health Peace and Happiness to you all and to all you love 🥰♥️🙏