Kalash Summer Festival

The Kalash are cheerful people, generous, witty and fond of rejoicing and merry making. Their women folk have an outgoing manner that is disarming, delightful and unexpected. As you join them in their festivities and see them dance and sing, you are taken right back into history.

The Kalash have four colourful festivals.To the Kalash these festivals are the culmination’s of religious life and, like the big funerals, they unite the people.

Uchal festival (August 20-22): In August marking the harvest of wheat and barley and bringing down of cheese from the high summer pastures. It is celebrated in Rumbur and Bumboret . Earlier in July it starts as the “ Ranat” with dances held on alternate days performed by the young girls and boys in order to safeguard the maize crop.

Facts

Range:                        Hindukush

Duration:                   12 Days

Festival Dates:           Aug 20-22

Altitude:                     Min 60m – Max 3000 m

Zone:                          Open

Trip Nature:              Soft Adventure

Best Time:                  August

I T I N E R A R Y
Day 1	Arrival Islamabad (Hotel).
Day 2	Fly to Gilgit or drive to Chilas in case of flight cancellation. Hotel.
Day 3	Drive to Gilgit on Karakoram Highway. Hotel
Day 4	Drive to Chitral. Hotel.
Day 5	Drive to Bumburet, Kalash valley. Hotel
Day 6-8	(Aug 20-22) Kalash summer festival Uchal and  enjoying the Kalash Girls’ dance. Hotel
Day 9	Drive back to Chitral.visit to Tooshi for Wildlife watching and Photography. Hotel.
Day 10	Fly to Islamabad 1 hour (subject to weather) or drive to Islamabad. Hotel.
Day 11	Full day at leisure and shopping in Islamabad/Rawalpindi.
Day 12	Departure