Around TGD
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
The first thought that came into my mind after visiting Okara can be described by four words: milk, butter, mammals and farms. Peers also told me the same. Besides Harappan ruins, I did not know the area. But one thing I did know, though, was that I should be happy to say goodbye to the place. Two years later, I felt drawn to the area and its people and it was very hard for me to part. There is so much to be seen, so much to be done. Above all, it has spirited, sincere and full-of-love people living in Gogera, Dipalpur and Pakpattan historic trilogy. The distances in the hinterland are short but the landscape is so enormous that it had to be studied in parts like a large mural seen by a child.
Labels: Soft Tourism
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:10 AM,
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Rural Travels
Monday, February 11, 2013
Strong travel movements characterize our times. The infrastructure, good connections by land, water and air make travel easy and suggest that everything is easily available everywhere. The values of the traditional culture however are increasingly forgotten in this scenario, although it is these values, which give the city dweller – the local one as well as foreigners a new outlook and possibilities to show off people and places. Which is why it is recomded tha conveniences of city life be transfered to villages.
Tourists, visitors an travelers, for example to the Punjabi village Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka are best recommended to leave back their city ideas and thereby become more open for understanding the rural life and its rich, traditional culture. If the come with urban attitudes, the visitors will start pitying the village dwellers for the deficient possibilities. Currently the villagers there do not need gymnastic studios like the city dwellers, the dusty path from one village to another is sufficient for walking practice instead of taking rounds in an oval stadium, and so on.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:00 AM,
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Signs where civilization started
Monday, August 27, 2012
Foreign volenters who come to Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka - The Dolls and Toys Village - sure visit Harrapa to see where the civilization started many centuries ago. Here German volunteer Gundula is visiting Harrapa with Dr. Norbert Pintsch.
Labels: Soft Tourism
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:43 PM,
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More Visitors in the Dolls and Toys Village
Monday, July 16, 2012
Labels: Soft Tourism, Thatta Kedona, Toys, Visitors
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:03 AM,
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Ravians visit Thatta Kedona
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Students from Government College University Lahore (Ravians) visited Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka – Home of Dolls – some time ago. Students enjoyed their stay in the village where they were briefed about different aspects of the project, traditional culture and were also shown around the rural way of life.Labels: Soft Tourism
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:42 AM,
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