Boxer Banda Swat “A beautiful valley walk

At the height of every mountain in Swat there is a beautiful valley called Banda in Pashto, Banda in Pashto is any area where people go for a few months and then return. There is a pasture. These Banda Jatas are located in large numbers in Upper Swat.

Boxer Banda is also one of the beautiful bandas, located in Tehsil Bahrain, from Mingora city to reach this beautiful valley, one travels by car to Kedam Gurnai and after Gurnai the trek starts, and approx. Boxerbanda starts after 8 hours of walking.

The distance from Kedam to Aksarbanda is about 10 km, and this distance goes up along the river. The journey to Chidi is easy, but after Chidai Gul, a slope starts, which is almost like a wall, and walking on it is difficult. On the way to reach this Banda, many beautiful places, charming waterfalls and springs as well as forests attract tourists, tourists keep saving the memorable moments in their cameras and mobile phones.

There are Kohistani Qumabads in Gornai, but as soon as you leave the village and the difficult mountain range starts, then there are Gujjar Qumabads up to Boxra Banda, who are extremely hospitable. At 12 o'clock on the day we started walking from Gurnai to Boxer Banda, then in the evening we stopped in a Kota (rough house) to spend the night, then a local person who belonged to the Gujjar community came and invited us and in this rough house. We were taken to his house, where he entertained us well throughout the night. Imran Khan says that when we asked the local people what animals live in this valley, they said that there are a lot of mountain roaches which harm animals, especially sheep. They kill goats.

According to local people, this route was not as difficult as it is now because most of the route was flooded due to floods in 2010, and now people take the difficult route.

Imran Khan, a tractor going to Boxerbanda, says that the local people travel from Gornai to Boxerbanda in five hours, but we urban people travel in five hours or more.

After reaching Boxer Banda, you will be greeted by a vast and green field, when the tourists reach this valley for the first time, they find themselves in another world. and they forget the tiredness of their journey, right in front of this field, white snow mountains can be seen and according to the local people, on the other side of it is the area of ​​Debir Kohistan, where people can walk to Boxer Banda in six hours. reach from

Tourists and walkers who arrive at Boxerbanda definitely take cricket and football along with them, and make these few moments of their life memorable by playing on this hill.

Imran Khan says that most of the sheep rearing people come here who spend the months of May, June, July and August and go back. He proposed to the provincial government that if they build a road here, it will A new picnic point will be built, and tourists will be able to see the valley as well