Spread over seven acres, the 'Craft Bazar' is animated with shops and pavilions offering an endless variety of knickknacks, folk furniture, well- crafted utensils, exquisitely embroidered garments and bed linen, gemstones, onyx goods and works of carved wood. Hot and appetizing Pakistani food is also available on the stalls. Folk entertainers -singers, dancers, village bards and puppeteers, dressed in rainbow coloured traditional costumes of innumerable varieties, enthral the visitors with their performance. Wandering minstrels, dancing dervishes and rustic bards also entertain the visitors with folk, mystic and epic songs.
A colourful display of traditional folk dances from every province and comer of Pakistan is held during the festival, at intervals, as an open-air attraction. Amongs1 the folk dances performed at the festival, the most popular one~ include Bugti, Dharees, Sheedj and Khattak. Puppet theatre and magic shows are also arranged during the festival week.
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