I had already heard about it from my Urdu teacher, when I was in Germany, but I couldn't imagine to what extend it would be.
Every now and then by looking around you'll see the kites over the roof tops of the next houses. And there's also a kite-flying-festival every year. My host always says: people get so crazy about the kites that they forget where they are. And if they should be standing on the rooftop, they will even fall down, just because they are to buisy with their kites...
The only thing that might still top the kite flying is cricket. There are young boys up to businessmen playing cricket in parks and on the greenery next to highways nearly everywhere. In times of Ramadan they install even lights at special places to encourage "night-cricket"...
Another striking thing are the henna painted beards and the hair both of older women and men. I tried to find out more, why they colour their hair in such colours varying from deep red to orange. One explanation given from a lahori friend, was that Islam tells the people to take care of themselves and to beautify them, even if they get older. (well,...different kind of taste, I guess ;-) Another more practical explanation seemed to be that the henna colour cools while the heat of pakistani summers...
Most of the kiosks look like this:
Pepsi, Coke...-advertisement (whatever american brand sponsors) decorates the outside of the shops.
Transport can come in different ways (this is the electric cable of a flatiron)...
And even the nature looks different to me...(but that's maybe just because I'm not enough knowledgeable about botanics)
And what do these guys do at every corner of the street in Rawalpindi?
They are musicians. They wait for work all day and night long, sometimes they practice, on the street. Until someone comes to hire them. Then they get in a car all together and drive off to their gig:
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And people think that it's us English that are crazy about cricket....really, we have nothing on the Pakistanis and Indians...I'm afraid I disappointed them with my batting when I was dragged into street games, but they where still happy to play.
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