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Imported (Moroccan, Afghani, Nepalase) Hash photo's and discussion....

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kuk

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just back from parvaati, breathtakingly beautiful as allways and i was very lucky with the weather while i was there with clear blue sunny skies during the day, as i had been told it had been raining heavily just a week previous.
sadly my man from 2006's place was not still there and i ventured up to tosh valley, i had been to kasol and as far as manikaran but on the way to tosh the amount of ganja plants hanging by the side of the road got me pretty excited and i just wantedto get out and start rubbing (which i did very poorly in tosh) and sadly i had also came just to early! they are only just starting to rub farmed, and not much cream available but also some forom last year now it is not as solid but oh my god the high is incredible and is while giving you a perma grin and an afinity to talking shit in a good humoured way the charas can not be beat in my opinion, i got some fresh too, hopefully pics of the cream and the 3rdish qualitu if i can get cam to pc, sshouldnt be a problem
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kuk

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mriko said:
No, Afghanistan has no commercial production of hand-rubbed charas. This is all gardah and cooked charas overthere. By the way, the word charas is not used only for hand-rubbed resin, but also for sieved resin after it's been cooked, in Afghanistan/Pakistan.



Practically indeed as it rather seems to be a Turkestani practice, the industry moving Southward to Afghanistan after the Russian Revolution. Although the shrine of baba Kuh (the one holy man who is said to have "invented" charas) is near Balkh.



Hand-pressin is actually just one of several traditionnal ways, the one for private use, easy & quick to do. For larger quantities there are larger presses, the traditionnal ones consisting into a large stone mortar underwhich a fire is lit, when the mortar is hot enough, the gardah is poured in the bowl and a heavy stone is manned by one, two, or more people so as to pound the gardah while it is cooked and turn it into charas.



More than you think actually, but the good one mostly goes to neighbouring countries, such as Pakistan and Turkestan nations, Iran & Middle-East countries (Saudi & Emirates) plus Russia, and also Czech Rep for some reason...



I'd rather say it made it to expand as dry sifting is also a traditionnal techniques in the Himalaya. What made it to reach such an extent would rather be the Western influence, through the travellers who've brought with them sieving bags & cloths.



There is commercial export, definitely, but the quantities are nowhere near that of the Moroccan production, making charas a treat indeed, an expensive treat... A pretty large chunk of the Himachali production ends up in Italy (actually, if you know where to look, on Google Earth, you can even spot the house some mafia guy got built in the middle of Parvati valley ganja fields, so as to control the work being done by Nepalese seasonnal migrant workers. Big money to be made up there !



Indeed, depressing it is. So much have been lost, but there still is a lot to preserve ! For how long... ?

Some Kashmiri Twisted Gardah here from 2007, my I love this stuff ! Sorry for pic quality...



Irie !
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just typed a long reply to that then presed delete by accident !!:weakestli shit

anyway mr iko i was just saying thanks for the lesson on himalayan hash history, as it is something i am interested in, and thought most afghan was charas (hand rubbed, not gardah) also can you call gardah charas or is gardah only called gardah? that garda thats been twisted (I love doing that on grade A himalayan) but it looks alot like "cream" i had in parvati in 06, which i think was hand rubbed, but it looked alot like your gardah, was some of the strongest stuff, not looks either it packed punch too. reminds me by looking at your gardah, that its made by completely different process.

By the way, when you say they cook the weed to make gardah, what part of the plant are they cooking (buds/hand rubbed resin/sieved materlal) (and at what temp would you estimate? and for how long, before finished product?)

im going to have a look on wiki on this now actually because ive seen you rave alot about gardah on these threads and i dont think ive ever tried it but would love to, would you have to go to some "hot" areas for lone westerner in pakistan to find some, or can you get it in india or nepal. or even not hot parts of pakistan (what is the pak side of kashmir like these days compared to pre 9/11, is it more dangerous now?)

great stuff to know,
thanks again :tiphat:
 
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how do you make pics that r opened on the thread,ie instead of having to open a link like these theres pictures not links
 
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Edit your post in Advanced reply and click on "My Photos [Insert]" on the right under the smilies and then just click on each image to add it to your post to be displayed

Nice pictures by the way, some tasty goodies
 
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Mr.iko... where abouts would be the best place to get grade A cream gardah, taking safety into consideration for caucasian mid 20's european
 
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^Amsterdam ask the locals. local's coffee shops are better than tourist traps. I liked de kuil.
 
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