Dear Friends,
Just had a wonderful trip of Mohadand lake swat from 12th Till 14th Dec, 2013. The experience was good. Although no hotels were open in swat. Only 2 hotels were open. We stayed in hotel Holiday Resort. It is excellent hotel with fair of just Rs 1000. Rooms were very good with hot water (in buckets) so we didnt try much bargening for rent.The owner Mr Afreen Khan is excellent guy. Mob:03149700618. We travelled in Shahid Coach 03009079701. Rent is Rs 1100. Guys mark my word this service is excellent and compets Daewoo in every standard. Your own head phone with three to four audio channels to pick along with movie as well. Where as Daewoo's rent is Rs 1600. We left at 10:30pm wednesday night and reached Mangora(Fiza Ghat) around 6am. Right there were toyota Hiace stand. It took around 4 hours to reach Kalam i.e. around 10:30am. Fair was Rs 250. Road is in pathetic condition from Bahrain onwards. But good news is that its all under construction. One word of advise is make sure to sit on front seat of toyota even if you have to wait for half an hour or so. We moved aroung swat on foot on thurday. Walked to pine forest then local village "Bayoon". Next day we rented a surf jeep and went for Mohadand lake. It was awsome experience. Though roads were blocked with snow and most of the drivers were willing to go only till "water Fall" but we convinced our driver to go further. But even then we had to walk through snow. It was very good experience. Lake was mostly coverd with snow. our local guide told us that in summer specially in swat festival there are camps erected even in lake area. But in our visit lake was all alone and lonley and had a awsome beauty of its own. It was great experience. Swat city its self is almost 95% closed. only a few shops and one or two local dhabas for food are open. You wont find any food after Magrib prayer there. Over all it was a great winter attraction. Thanks to all guys on PakWheel forum from where i got the guidance to plan my trip.
Zabardast....
lovely pics and trip bro.. perfect snow
Awesome trip bro!
Mahodand lake seems totally different that I saw in summer. Lucky you to have snow in your trip.
Thankyou sir ge, I tried to follow your foot steps
Sir they are nothing compared to the places you have been. But i try my level best. you guyz are my inspiration
zabardast!!!! Nice pictures.....
Nice thread, keep sharing.
Zabardast, yaar, nice pictures also.
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Nice trip dear
Superb
nice trip brother...in winters
lovely shots...........
Excellent !!!
Bro, how much u paid for SURF ride ? and the time of visiting lake ?
lovely trip
beautiful ,good to hear that they are working on kalam road , went there in june and the road was in horrible condition , swat valley is xtremely beautifull . . .
Lovely Snow Shots of Mahodand(H)Body language is openly describe the joy you earned from your snowy tour to Mahodand. Keep traveling and keep enjoying bro
Sir ge its negotiable. Season rate is Rs 4000. Offseason they can take you in Rs 3000 or ever 2500. We paid Rs 3500 because roads were blocked with snow and when we asked then we come to know that other drivers will take us only till water fall. but our driver took us almost all the way till lake. time was almost one and half hour in one way.
lovely thread... good to see some one visit kalam in winter ,as ppl now a days are mostly going to galliat and naran in winters....