A tourist dances with Kailash women. PHOTO: EXPRESS
The festival began in a traditional manner by commemorating the arrival of spring after a long and hard winter.
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The festival also celebrates the abundance of dairy products and other rich treasures of the area during the spring and summer season.
The Kailasha people, who are Pakistan's smallest ethno-religious community, decorated their houses with flowers to welcome the spring.
Foreign tourists arriving in Chitral
The festival celebrates the termination of hard days for women and removal of restrictions imposed on mothers with newborns to attend social gatherings.
A number of foreigners and local tourists had traveled to the remote valley to attend the festival. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tourism Corporation (TCK-P) had set up a tents village for these visitors in all the three valleys of Kailash.
A group of motorcyclists also rode to Chitral to participate in the adventure tourism activities during the festival.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 15th, 2018.
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