Hello, Local Guides,
After a wonderful Photo Walk in Nature at Thaddo Dam, we decided to go forward and explore more awesome places of #SoothingSindh
We started our journey from there and headed to West of the Sindh Province where we have Pakistan’s largest, the world’s 17th largest desert, and the world’s 9th largest subtropical desert with approx 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) area and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. About 85% of the Thar Desert is located within India, with the remaining 15% in Pakistan.
In India, it covers about 170,000 km2 (66,000 sq mi), and the remaining 30,000 km2 (12,000 sq miles) of the desert is within Pakistan.
More than 60% of the desert is situated in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and it extends into the states of Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana, and the Pakistani province of Sindh. Within Pakistan’s Punjab province, the Thar continues as the Cholistan Desert.
(Facts & Figures from Google)
The word Tharparkar means “crossing over sand.” It encompasses two words: “Thar,” which comes from “Thul,” which means sand ridges and “Parkar” means “crossing over.”
We all were fond of Thari Culture, which is the combination of Gujrati, Sindhi and Rajasthani culture. Indeed, the Rajasthani culture overwhelms the other two. The Thar music is also being stimulated by Rajasthani music, though it has its own soul, feelings and magic.
Thar desert is very rich in culture, folk music, folk dance, colorful & attractive traditional dresses, and jewelry.
The region of Thar has many languages, Thari Language (Dhatki, Parker), Sindhi and other regional language are commonly spoken in this wonderful region.
Jain & Hindu Temples, Sand Dunes, Wild Organic Food, Wild Vegetables, Open clean Sky with full of stars, glamorous full Moon Nights and Handicrafts are the main attractions of this amazing area.
Road to Thar :
It took approx 325 kilometers and 6 hours of drive when we reached our first destination Mithi, which is the Capital of Tharparkar district of Sindh.
We heard a lot about the Clock tower of Mithi city, so first, we decided to explore the city from the top of the mountain.
The city of Mithi is famous for its beautiful and historical Hindu temples.
After spending some hours, we started our journey again to our final destination which was not any other but the main area of Magical Thar.
We reached NagarParker in more than 3 hours which was around 130 kilometers from Mithi City.
After the wonderful season of Monsoon, the desert of Thar became like a beautiful
Oasis.
Please watch the wonderful Visual Story of Thatparkar by Naeem ur Rehman here ?.
We were lucky that we had Some of the best and masters of Photography from Karachi @Naeemurrehman and @siqbal. By these fantastic friends Before this trip, I learned many new techniques of Photography in our previous Photo walks and food crawls in Karachi. And indeed this trip of Thar was also the best chance to learn by these legends, and I tried it.
They also gave us some great tips, When we reached Thar, all the tips proved to be very useful like we bought first aid kit, some necessary medicines and dry food.
Further they adviced us to Always keep our cameras ready especially during sunset and sunrise.
I would like to say special thanks to honorable @amarfayaz and @memonsaeed who gave us the way to explore these amazing destinations. And Thanks to @sheeraz, @SwalayMuhammad @Bilal_shaikh
To made this event successful along with our photography legends Naeem Ur Rehman and Salman Iqbal.
Thank you @OmerAli for notifying me that something I missed in this post, and it was traditional food which we tried there. We stayed in a resort, and but for meal we visited Dhabas there, to explore the real and unique taste of the same food which we tried in other cities of Pakistan, but with the touch of Thar.
Usually in breakfasts, we took Anda Paratha and Malai (Fried Egg, Paratha and Milk Cream) and other food which we tried there were Mutton Sajji, Mutton Karhai, fried fish and Khatri Biryani. You can Check this Collage of different foods, which we enjoyed there.
We stayed at this tremendous and mesmerizing place for 48 hours and took a lot of photos. You can check some of them by this Google Photos album.
