Experience the Tranquility of Keenjhar Lake from the Sky.
Mesmerising Drone Shots of Kalri Jheel.
Keenjher Lake or Kalri Lake is located 22 kilometers away from Thatta and about 122 kilometers from Karachi and 80 Kilometers from Hyderabad. It is one of the largest man-made lake in Pakistan.
Keenjher lake was build possibly in the 12th century by the local rulers as a water reservoir for the then capital of Sindh Thatta.
Today Keenjher lake is an extremely beautiful blue water lake which It plays an important ecological role in the functioning of the Indus River basin. It is extremely important for a wide variety of breeding, passage and wintering waterbirds. The mid-winter waterbird counts of the late 1980s averaged 140,000 birds per winter.
The famous legend of Sindhi legend of Noori Jam Tamachi took place here at this lake and was created into a sufi poetry chapter in the book of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. The legends main character Noori has still a shrine on an Island in the lake known as Noori's Island. Everyday hundreds of devotees visit the shrine.
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