Swat, Kalaam Malam Jabba Tour

Swat’s average elevation is 980 m resulting in a considerably cooler and wetter climate compared to most of Pakistan

With lush forests, verdant alpine meadows, and snow-capped mountains, Swat is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations

Swat was a major center of early Buddhist thought as part of the Gandhara kingdom, and today is littered with ruins from that era

Kalam is a spacious sub-valley of Swat, at an elevation of about 2,000 meters  above sea level, and providing rooms for a small but fertile plateau above the river for farming

Here, the metaled road ends and shingle road leads to the Usho and Utror valleys

During the winter, the Mahodand lake freezes and is covered by heavy snow while in the summers, the basin of the lake is surrounded by a sheet of alpine flowers