Kalash Choimus Festival
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
- All domestic flights and road transfers
- All hotel accommodation (twin sharing room)
- All trekking accommodation
- All camping site and bridge fees
- All trekking logistics (all tents, non-personal equipment and tools etc)
- All meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
- Licensed professional guide (government requirement)
- Government trekking permit fees and paperwork
- Waste management fees (government requirement)
- Support staff (cook, assistant(s) etc)
- Porter for personal luggage (15 kgs)
- First aid medicine kit (basic)
- Satellite phone for emergencies
- D3V sleeping tent, Toilet Tent, Shower Tent.
- Personal travel insurance (suggestions only)
- Visa to Pakistan (five supporting documents will be offered)
- International airfare
- Personal equipment (e.g. trekking shoes, down jacket, walking sticks etc)
- Personal mountain equipment (crampon, mountaineering boot, ice axe, harness, two carabiners, helmet etc)
- Extra nights in Islamabad (hotel check in/out is 12pm) - additional USD 49 per night
- Tips/gratuities for guides, porters, staff etc
- Miscellaneous (minibar, bottled water, phone calls, laundry, souvenir etc)