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RE: Places To Remember - Hunza Valley, Pakistan
I like photo #3 (contrast of green and gray) and photo #8 (snow-covered mountain peak) the best. I am sure that your travels have changed how you view life.
When I lived overseas, arranged marriages were still common in the rural areas. This is a hard concept for people who come from the west.
Yes, this family we got invited by was special since it was just the mother and 4 daughters in the house. The father had passed away, but they were all just so happy living together in this house of women, so they really couldn't imagine leaving, having to suddenly be under a man - it is still the tradition that the bride moves in with her husband's family and that the man of the house has the last word. But they didn't do so much in arranged marriages as far as I understood, and could choose by themselves. The thing she found amazing was that we (as a couple) were not married and could choose to be together the way we wanted. For them it's more an either, or solution, married in your husbands house or single in your mother's (or father's for most)