When: Summers
Duration:09 days
Highlights: Chitral, Kalash Tribes

Uchal Festival Kalash is one of the top cultural festivals of Pakistan. Kalasha tribe celebrates many festivals around the year. Uchal festival celebration is to pay homage to Almighty for blessing them with good food and crops. They prepare corn, buttermilk, and cheese to celebrate the festival and rejoice Uchao.

Uchal Festival Kalash is celebrated in annual harvesting with singing, dancing and paying homage to the nature for blessing them with barley and wheat harvest season every year in August.

In Kalash Uchal Festival  they prepare special foods, cheese, buttermilk and cornbread for the event. Women in traditional dresses perform dances. During the festival prayers, a procession is made to a high plateau outside the village in Balangkuru where the long night of dancing begins

Highlights –Kalash Uchal Festival

Uchal Festival Kalash has a lot to offers. Given below are main highlights of Uchal Festival Kalash:

• Experience the winter festival of ethnic minority community of Kalash
• Participate and dance to the tunes of Kalasha music
• View of hundreds of peaks including Tirich Mir (7,708m) in the Hindukush Range
• Rivers (Kunar, Dir, Chitral), tributaries and streams
• Malakand pass, Lowari Pass (3,118 m) or Lowari Tunnel (10.4 kms)
  Valleys of Khyber including Dir, Chitral and Kalash
• Views of forts (Malakand, Nagar, Ayun & Chitral) and Mosques (Shahi Masjid)

Itinerary –Uchal Festival Kalash

Day-01: Islamabad and Rawalpindi
Day-02: Drive from Islamabad to Swat
Day-03: Drive from Swat to Chitral
Day-04: Drive from Chitral to Bumburet
Day-05: Visits in Rumbur and Birir
Day-06: Drive from Kalash to Swat
Day-07: Drive from Swat to Peshawar
Day-08: Drive from Peshawar to Islamabad
Day-09: Fly Back Home