Kurdish people Love to party. They love dressing up, they love music, they love dancing, and they look for any and every reason to celebrate. All around town, there are places specially designed for families to have BBQ's and picnics, and places to dance the traditional Kurdish dance, called Halperke. Silemani is a very crowded city, its about half the size of Columbus, with just as many people. Most of the houses are attached, and the cost of real estate is through the roof. The city has grown more and more the past few years, and even real estate at the very edges of the city are very expensive. A plot of land enough to build a 2 bedroom, one living room, one kitchen home in the city will cost you about 50K to 80k, while the same plot of land at the very outskirts of the city will cost you betwee 25k to 40k.
These picnic and resort places are usually built on the edges of town, or about 30 minutes to an hour away. The place we went to, which is called Chaq Chaq (weird name even for Kurds) is just on the edge of town, situated on a little hill overlooking the city.
We went with my favorite cousin and his wife and kids. We grilled meat, played games, ate, talked, and had a really nice time. Its always nice to out in the evening with the lights and cool breeze.
Bad view of the city
The place we hung out at
This delicious layered chocolate and cookie thing my cousins wife made, we at two huge ones!
My cousin eating yummy grapes
Randome pulling game
My cousins daughters adorable expression
What was the chocolate thing made out of? It looks good..we should try to recreate it for one of our iftars inshallah! Your cousin here looks like Rozh, mA
ReplyDeleteIt was soooo good, it was basically tea cookies with chocolate creme on top spread over it, layered about 4 times, then topped with coconut and M&M's, its really easy we'll deff make it inshallah
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