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

Kalash Choimus Festival also known as Chitirmas festival celebrated in winters every year. Choimus festival holds great importance among the Kalasha people celebration with a colorful swirl of traditional dances, foods, and prayer chants to the Balomain spirit by the Kalasha tribe. The locals perform rituals for purification during the festival at the dawn of the new year.

Kalash Choimus Festival spread over days, this festival is an attraction for not only locals but also for tourists and travelers. As you get to dance around large bonfires on drum beats, there is plenty of locally brewed mulberry wine to cherish with. Women of the tribe hold special place in the festival due to their traditional black robes embroidered with colourful threads and huge headwear made of shells and beads.

Choimus Festival Kalash of tribal elders gather at hilltops to watch the rising sun of the new year that is followed by goat sacrifices made to the Goddess, “Jastak”, and the blood is sprinkled at the temple Jastarkhan. Let See The Departure of choimus festival 2019 dates.

Highlights –Kalash Choimus Festival

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

• 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 –Kalash Choimus Festival

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