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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.

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 ...

There is not so much to do in Abu Dhabi in comparison to Dubai but it's more greener and peaceful as the capital city of UAE and mostly suited to the residential and king palace.  Al Ain is further situated about 2 and half hour drive away from Abu Dhabi is bit more greener and with beautiful views. But the liveliness and warmth that can be felt in Dubai can't be found in Abu Dhabi. So I must suggests for travelers and tourist to visit Dubai first then Abu Dhabi. Here don't miss the famous dates markets where you can get very tasty dates chocolates. Etihad towers UAE heritage village Old times chandelier 🙋‍♀️🌴🇦🇪 Inside Sheikh Zayed grand mosque Sheikh Zayed grand mosque

 Asian beauties are usually crazy for having lots of bangles  if they glass made, metallic, silver or gold. They love all. I personally like to collect more then to wear in actual on daily basis because it doesn't feel comfortable to carry them on regular basis. But i would prefer at least one standard size hand cuff, bracelets then having lots of glass made bangles.

There are many cultural hubs almost every where in the world. It may be based on theaters presenting the cultural shows and dances, the restaurants serving the traditional food, café, book stores and museums etc. The cultural hub is basically a building or outlet that promotes culture and arts. Some times keeping traditional stuff on the display  I came across a few days back one such cultural hub,in the city of Abbotabad , facilitated privately by a group of persons. Here i found some handcrafted kundan Jewellery sets , fabrics, and ready to wear clothes. Apart from the traditional clothes there were certain traditional shoes on display. Locally these shoe are called as " KHUSA " made of leather. They were not locally made rather bought from Faisalabad as I have seen such designs there. Keeping in view the latest trends there were both western as well as eastern style of dresses on the display. I found the famous branded Burberry short shrugs in differen...