Picture of the Day: Lake Saiful Muluk Kaghan Valley, Pakistan

Posted by latif

Source/Credit: Wikipedia, the free on-line encyclopaedia

Lake Saiful Muluk (Urdu: سیف الملوک) is a lake located at the northern end of the Kaghan Valley (34°52′37.34″N 73°41′37.71″E) near Naran. It is in the north east of Mansehra Districtin the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. At an altitude of 3,224 m (10,578 feet) above sea level it is amongst one of the highest lakes in Pakistan.
The weather here is moderate during day time while the temperature drops to minus degrees at night.

A fairy tale called Saiful Muluk, written by the famous sufi poet Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, is associated with the lake.^[1] It is the story of prince of Persia who fell in love with a fairy princess at the lake.^[2] The impact of the lake beauty is of such extent that people believe that fairies come down to lake in full moon.A poet and writer from Balakot Ahmad Hussain Mujahid wrote the story of Saiful Muluk in prose depicting the local version.

Posted by latif on July 19, 2011. Filed under Picture of the day. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

6 Responses to Picture of the Day: Lake Saiful Muluk Kaghan Valley, Pakistan

Anisa

September 29, 2011 at 7:43 am

Enchantingly beautiful and tranquilizing
TAHIR

October 2, 2011 at 5:13 am

I have been to this place about 3 times during my HIKING expeditions and beyond this lake you can find high very lovely and virgin places and its very lovely to hike here and beyond ………
And the early commenter has very rightly said ” TRANQUILIZING”
TAHIR

October 2, 2011 at 6:07 am

you have given two pictures whereas the FIRST picture is NOT of this place as the lake is at the height of 10,500 feet, which is above the tree-line and in this picture whole forest is being shown and in actual one cant find so many trees there. I think it has been added by mistake . please check it again
Nemat Ali

October 3, 2011 at 5:35 am

Lovely.
Nasir

January 10, 2012 at 7:55 pm

I was going to say same as Tahir sahib.First Pic semms to be of North America.
Terry Moore

January 19, 2012 at 11:57 am

Your picture of the day above of LAKE SAIFUL MULK is actually of MORAINE LAKE in Canada! Your source needs to be informed.
Hope this helps
T