a view of Swat River at Behrain, Swat Valley, Pakistan

Well the crux of all the scenario was; there is no electricity (these were good old days when we were not forced to enjoy loadshedding), no proper arrangement to stay there and there is no chance that one can have his celluler network working over there. They also told us that there is another glacier, and as per them we can cross this one but the next was a BIG THING.

At that time we all made a wise decision to go back to BEHRAIN and explore that place. In our way back to BEHRAIN we spent some time at 2 or 3 places in order to fix the jeep. There was one guy name SHERI with us, while at one place the jeep was being fixed and we all were busy in clicking photos and all that, he put binoculars on his eyes and started to look around. Suddenly a PATHAN appeared and he accused that this boy with telescope was staring his wife. That was a scene in the making but we all made that young “Pathan” man understand, he went on his way and we were back to BEHRAIN now.

After having lunch I and Bilal roam about in the bazaar and we bought a comb and a set of playing cards. Bilal then went to search Ball n Bat and I decided to get shaven. Well got back to the room offered ASAR prayer and asked Azeem about Bilal. He was also unaware about Bilal, so we decided to look for him. After some time we spent in search of MODEL of our group Mr. Bilal, we came to know that he was playing cricket with the “local cricketers of the place”

As soon cricket was over we decided to check out the mountains around. On our way we met an old man, his name was Umer and he has been in the tourism department. He was there to help us in exploring the interior Behrain.

This exploring mission began with an ancient Bazaar of Ghee. As per Baba Umer this Bazaar was here since the era of Mughals. The doors of the shops were looking quite strong. And than Baba Umer started to point out at different direction and letting us know that which is the city behind this mountain and which behind that one. According to our “guide”; a young man can reach the valley of KAGHAN after a 6 hour walk. Well I think this young man of Baba’s description can not be the one of this generation.

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