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AUTUMN SEASON OF THE SOUL

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The best time of the year and my favorite one is definitely fall winter, when you can witness some of the beautiful days while trees changes colour and mood changes because the winter is approaching.  🍁🍂 "Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale." - Lauren Destefano

FOLK FESTIVAL (LOK MELA) 2020, ISLAMABAD. PART 2

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Folk festival give such a nice glimpse of overall Pakistan's traditional and cultural heritage, visitors do enjoy the handicrafts. Pavillion of all provinces including Gilgit baltistan, Hunza and Azad Jammu Kashmir are presenting in a vibrant way, where the local craftsmen put their handicrafts on display. You can find the part 1 of festival by clicking here.  Artisan from all provinces, who are considered expert in their individual handicrafts showcased their work here in one place.  Lok mela usually attracts a large no. of visitors on sunday as majority of people join such leisure activities on weekends. No doubt it's popular in capital city but due to covid 19 it wasn't much crowded. Timings are flexible from (am till 10 pm. So people may visit according to their convenience without making any crowd.

CULTURAL FESTIVAL "LOK MELA" 2020, ISLAMABAD. PART 1

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Annually this 10 days long festival is held in Islamabad by "National Institute of folk and traditional heritage", (Lok Virsa) at Shakarparian. It's a kind of  folk festival that's truly depicting the colourful picture of Pakistan's heritage, art and crafts along with folk music and traditional cuisine. Here i shared about the event in two parts. Second half can be clicked here Visitors welcome this festival every year but this year it's kind of unusual due to pandemic. This year despite of current ongoing second spell of covid 19, still it's management offered the festivities of folk festival from 6th to 15th of november with strictly following SOP's and at the same time they made it possible to promote local traditional items at very reasonable prices. We should definitely appreciate their efforts to manage all and giving people a safe opportunity to enjoy cultural entertainment.     Multani blue Tiles designs on ceramics  Last but not the least my ...

SKYBRIDGE ZIPLINE. CHERAT, PAKISTAN. That you shouldn't miss out.

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Zipline is an adventure in itself, but it's even more remarkable to mention if you get a chance of doing that in the beautiful khattak mountain range near nowshera in Cherat, Pakistan. No doubt, it is one of the most beautiful location so far i have been to in Pakistan.   Exact Location:  The location is quite easy and straight until you don't get fooled and misguided by google map. It's easily accessible from peshawar, islamabad but bit longer drive from lahore as a day trip. But if you have enough stamina then you can do it from lahore as well. Leaving early morning and almost 6 hours drive through M2 to M1, exit at "Rashkai Interchange". Just follow the GT road/national highway, crossing Nowshera bridge towards Pabbi. On left side take a turn towards Cherat Cantt. Keep driving until you reach to the main entrance of cherat cantt. As this is the only single road leading to Skybridge Zipline till date, located inside Cherat Cantt.  My personal experience: "...

My Canon powershot SX730HS

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Am very late in reviewing  about my travel handy camera Canon SX730HS. Initially it was launched in 2017 but am using this since 2018. First of all before discussing it's other features , let me share what i personally liked about this pocket size travel friendly camera.  It has a full HD video recording and the most interesting "Hybrid auto" mode bcoz this capture a 2 second video automatically before you capture any shot and in the end compiling them together as a video, making this more interesting to use.  This feature is great for holidays and events etc because of this the camera looks unique from other pocket size camera available in market. It comes in two colours only. A black and silver. Front of the Canon powershot SX730HS             Rear of the Canon powershot SX730HS It can be easily connected to both Android, iOS devices and laptop wirelessly to transfer photos via WIFI connection. All you need is to download a ...