Diana Australis' photos
HFF….(cage)
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River crossing. Chitral, Pakistan.
Sending best wishes for a splendid weekend. Keep well, safe and happy. And take photos!
Kalash woman
HFF
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Village river crossing, Phandar Valley. Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan.
Thank you so much for any visit and or comment…truly appreciated.
Wishing you a fantastic Friday, and a weekend filled with cheerful moments and happy photographic opportunities
Kalash children, Kafiristan. Pakistan.
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The Kalash are an Indo-Ayrian minority group in Pakistan, living in remote valleys adjacent to the Pakistan border. As non Muslims they come under pressure from extremists who feel these women should be in hijabs and be subservient. They are, in the contrary, confident, boldly dressed in their traditional clothes, and educated. Education is very highly valued. This is a school. Kids have UNICEF bags. The back view of the girls in their daily headgear coming off the field from a game of cricket in school PE lesson.
The picture at the bottom is an imposter ( me) at a village ceremony with local friends.
HFF
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A Kalash girl in a remote area of hard-to-reach Pakistan, adjacent to the Afghan border. The Kalash are a small ethnic minority (14000 people) who are not Islamic. They follow their own polytheistic religion, and culture, which is under huge pressure from a hardline Islam seeping across the Afghan border. The women and girls wear these colourful dresses all the time, even as school uniforms, together with the eye-catching headdresses. They are loud, open and cheery. Also well educated. We spent several days in their remote valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains with them in an area named Kafiristan.
This girl had just come home from school and was playing.
Happy Friday, and a wonderful weekend to all.
Another King of the Road
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The mind boggling details on yet other Pakistani trucks. The leader photo is a close up of the extraordinary detail on the front of a fairly new vehicle. They look amazing sailing along the roads!
The bottom one is an Imran Khan truck
King of the road
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Pakistani trucks are extraordinary. The amount of art and decoration on them defies description. This oldie is one of the veterans plying the road. Every bit of the vehicle is painted, embellished, and decorated with wild extravagance, down to tinkling chain skirts and hand carved and painted doors. They are like giant sailing ships on the road, with the prow at the top often full of goats, people and/or cargo.
Modern ones are equally overly decorated. It is a definite art form, and owners are inordinately proud of their trucks, carefully maintaining and updating the decor.
I absolutely adore them.
HFF
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From Shimshal, at 3500 meters in the high Pamir mountains up near the Pakistan border with China. The thrifty subsistence farmers here use every scrap of precious wood to be found…for heating and cooking..,and for gates! Trees are scarce at this altitude
Thanks for any welcome visits and comments, which are truly appreciated. Enjoy your Friday, and may the weekend be full of photographic treasures!
HFF from Shimshal
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The village at 3500 meters in the High Pamirs, near the China border in Pakistan.
The village at the end of the road I posted a video of. It is a land of rock and snow melt.
It is shut off during winter with temperatures around -40C. The hardy villagers grow wheat and potatoes, apricots, stone fruits and walnuts. They raise sheep, cattle and yaks, which spend the summer in the much higher Pamir pastures several days from the village. In winter there is danger from bears, snow leopards and wolves.
Have a super Friday and a most agreeable weekend
Where mountains dominate
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In the Karakoram Range in Gilgit-Baltistan, North Pakistan. Here, there is almost no flat land.
Have a fantastic week. Love from Australia
HFF
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Hussaini Suspension bridge, North Pakistan and below…me facing my terrors
Wishing a happy Friday and a really enjoyable weekend to everyone. Thank you for your visit.
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Pakistan
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View over high alpine meadow to 8,126m Nanga Parbat (The Killer Mountain) in the Western Himalaya. This is in the North east of Pakistan in the Baltistan area.
Hussaini Suspension bridge HFF
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Hunza. North Pakistan.
I have just today come home from 6 weeks in the remotest parts of Pakistan. I will get back to visiting and commenting soon. Have had no internet.
Have a fabulous Friday and weekend. Big hugs to all.
Huge gaps in the foot treads, an unsteady ‘ fence’, raging glacier melt river far below, and 500meters to the other side…not for the faint of heart. Plus a fierce wind. The locals run across carrying baskets
Allée des Baobabs
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Morondava, Madagascar
Just looking at a few favourite travel pics. This is a magical spot. It felt so very special to watch the light changing at sunset.
Sending hugs and best wishes…❤️
HFF…or stone terracing walls, in fact.
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North Pakistan, Hunza. Near the border with China and Tajikistan.
This is a scan of an old photo, but I am going back there in September and October. Can hardly wait for the adventure!
Sending a Friday hug and wishes for a pleasant weekend. Hopefully not too hot and no fires near you.
Diana
Havana afternoon
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HFF to all. It is very cold here just now, so a photo of a lazy sun washed afternoon in Havana seemed a happy memory to warm me up today!
Wishing a lovely weekend…warm, happy and filled with enjoyable moments..and fruitful photo ops.
Best hugs
Diana
HFF from Canberra
For George HFF
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Kyabram tank art, Victoria, Australia. This is part of a rural silo trail of painted silos and concrete water tanks. It has a splendid depiction of a Major Mitchell cockatoo, one of our beautiful native parrots. Behind a wire fence.
HFF to all, and a wonderful weekend….from the singing snapper!
I am on a solo driving trip at present…singing as I drive!
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