Jeejee Laghari Travelogue

 

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Travel log/ Jeejee Laghari /73/2k18

 Sanghar to Sehwanr shareef

 

This travel log will be about my journey with my friends. The journey will set out from my home town sanghar, to the great holy dargah of Sarkar Usman Marwandi Sehwan.

The journey starts with me waiting for my friends to pick me up from my home at 7:00am. We picked this time so we can set out and sight see as the sun slowly rises into the sky with a great view for our memories. My partners on this journey were my class fellows from my University all 5 of us decided to go on this trip on our own expense and create an everlasting memory. Ali was the one that quickly hopped on the idea of this trip he is always ready for an adventure. And Qurban helped provide us the transport for the travels, the rest of the crew wanted something to vlog about or write about just like me.

Well now that you are caught up with how we got to this point let's get back to me waiting for them to pick me up.

They arrived at about 7:20, and they quickly put my luggage in the car and wanted to set out as soon as possible so i grabbed my cellphone and said my good-bye's to my family. I got in the car and everyone was dressed and ready for the trip asking me if i brought the cellphone since i was gonna be the one who took all of the pictures.

We set out for the highway to nawabshah i hadn't even eaten anything and so have these fools they quickly wanted to set out on the journey and eat as we go. So we decided to make a stop at a local restaurant and have breakfast there. About half a kilometer on the road to nawabshah we saw a local dhaba or "truckers stop" as some call it we decided to make a stop their for some tea and paratha, some desi cuisine was what we were planning to eat. We parked our mehran and the boy's went to have a look if they had some family seating arrangements. Which they obviously didn't since it is a truckers stop, but being the gender equality connoisseurs that Ali and Qurban were, they told us girl's to come and sit together on a "charpaii" and have our breakfast together. The truckers were looking as they never saw a group of opposite genders sit together. Our group had 3 girls and 2 boy's. Faiza, myself and saira were busy eating our breakfast to realize anything, we were hungry infact we all were starving because nobody had ate breakfast from their homes. so we quickly finished our eggs and parathas with the greatest tea that I've ever tasted and thanked the local dhaba owner for the service he told us to come again and again because our group changed the whole vibes around the restaurant with our presence. Dont know what he meant by that but I guess we are a group of fun bunch.

 

It was 8:30am and we had still been traveling on the highway towards Qazi Ahmed because we had to take bridge and change our direction, our route was through the Indus highway after bridge of Qazi Ahmed, now we were on the Indus highway one of the most beautiful highways in Sindh and we were feeling like we are in Baluchistan because of some part of the highway is along with the hilly areas named Bagothorho. We made a stop there at the famous naturally Air conditioning cave. We took photographs of one and other and we climbed on hills but our real destination was not that we were getting late so Ali reminded us that now we have to leave for the dargah and start our travel again. After some distance we reached at Sehwan the city of “Jhuly Lal”. Everyone in our car was busy in making vlogs and taking pictures of the small city, our car was slowly moving towards shrine because it is located in centre of city and it is very congested area. We reached at shrine Qurban parked the car and said facilities have changed, but one needs to be prepared to be patient due to heavy crowd, because he usually visits this when he visits his village in Dadu. I have noticed one thing that winter will be the perfect time for older people to visit. Small hotels and restaurants exist, but there are no luxuries. Food is abundant and cost-free, given/distributed. One more thing I would suggest you don’t bring valuables, and as the chances of being snatched are high, ladies should avoid wearing gold. I highly suggest visiting the shrine and seeking the blessing of the great Qalandar, rewarding people with acquiring peace of soul. We five were walking towards the great Laal Qalandar's holy shrine. I find myself a traveller who is still in travel. We travel from childhood to adulthood, from young to old, and so on, even though our entire life is focused on travelling.  The surrounding of Qalandar’s hall is something else i can’t even express in words the way, people serving food , patients with hope and many more things. My friends were doing different activities so I decided to take interview from the person who is living in the hall of Laal. The guy names Allah Dino resident of west bank of river Indus said that “people usually came here with wishes and hope and Laal completed their hopes”. I don’t know what’s their believe is neither I’m talking about someone’s faith but the surroundings and environment made my full stunned. We had enjoyed our whole day at shrine and its surroundings and the time of sunset we head to back to our nest , on the way back we also made a stop for coffee and played music all the way back to sanghar where i got off and went home after saying my good-bye's and expressed gratefulness towards my friends for such memories. This was my epic journey i recommend you go make yours.

Practical work carried under supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi 

Media & Communication Studies, University of Sindh