Ik Bar Chalay Aao - Street music near Kawai, Kaghan Valley

On our way to Naran we were stuck at the road near the town of Kawai for about ten hours (Naran is the main town in Kaghan Valley which is famous for the beautiful Lake Saiful-Muluk). A huge landslide had already blocked the road when we got there at about 2am. A lot of other cars were stuck there as well, some people slept in the cars, some spent the night on the roadside. This video is from the morning when these travellers from Peshawar took out their Rabaab and a makeshift tabla/drum. After the music show, the nice fellows offered us tea as well. Later, the bulldozers started their attempt to clear the road at about 8am but had to retreat after every few minutes because of falling rocks. The road was finally leveled well enough for the traffic to start crossing at about 12pm.
Photos from the trip:
http://www.pbase.com/waqas/kaghan_valley_and_lake_saiful_mulook

Original Version by Mehdi Hasan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUj2oPC8Qk

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Adventure
• Landslide
• Stuck
• Traffic
• Kaghan
• Valley
• Naran
• Pakistan
• NWFP
• North-West
• Frontier
• Kawai
• Travel
• Pathan
• Music
• Rubab
• Rubaab
• کاغان
• پاکستان
• صوبہ
• سرحد
• رباب

[rebelfromlahore]

just 3 days back we were stuck because of land sliding there as well...and did listen to him...lolzzzz its oct 2010 :P

[optimistsRUS]

@rebelfromlahore

Really? The same person at the same spot and the same reason for being stuck? LOL

[rebelfromlahore]

@optimistsRUS yes..lolzzz isnt that amazing ? ofcourse there is a three years gap. now the land sliding happened at Paras from last 20 days, we went back to kawai and next day after breakfast we found this singer at the restaurant :-) we have not had the video camera....gash that would have been an very interesting response to your video bro:)

[optimistsRUS]

@rebelfromlahore

True, that would have been interesting to say the least :) I think he probably visits the valley every year, my video is from August 2006 so that's 4 years ago, time flies!

I'm sure you guys had a good time.

[Pokhton]

rabab is cool

[ViMiK]

O Jeooooooo!

Sherdil Pakistaniyoon (k)

I can feel the presence of apnapan :)

Long Live Pakistan (L)

[Nkkhilji]

20 Rupeeeeeeeee Nice Moment.. i wish i was there ;)

[sultanoxforduk]

this is in the north of pakistan iv been past there...when i was going to Naran ...im from mansehra but born in uk its a beautifull area.

[rebelfromlahore]

@optimistsRUS yes Indeed it was a wonderful trip despite the fact that a local guy trying to cross the sliding just minutes behind us was caught by a falling piece of rock and died ! on our way back we choose to use the "dolli". just to be a bit safer o,0

[rebelfromlahore]

@optimistsRUS ah alright...we go to north west Pakistan every year...and now we are looking forward to establish a hiking and adventure trip organization for adventure lover from all over the world, so to get their trips organized with us.... exhibition of our pics from our last trip was really appreciated in London... which gives us to think why not to properly arrange trips ? and yes to invest the profit earned from it back to the local community...

[JasonCaesare]

@optimistsRUS Sons of Madai. I'm from the line of Gomer, I think. We have the same ancestor. Anyway, I recognized that as Urdu later because I've seen this song in some Pakistani videos, but I wasn't sure until you told me. I only know a few words of Dari, but enough to know that Persian words are present in nearly every language around the world.

[optimistsRUS]

@JasonCaesare

True, that culture is disappearing. This video is from Pakistan and the singer is a Pathan. The song is in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, which borrows a lot from Persian (along with Turkish and Arabic), but Pushto, the language of Pathans is even more close to the Persian language. The people of Pakistan are probably a mix of a bunch of ethnicities including the local ex-Hindus, ex-Buddhists, ex-Sikhs, and the Persian, Turkic, Arab and perhaps Greek and Macedonian people