Bahrain is a popular hill station located in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, 60 km North of Mingora at an elevation of 4600 ft on the right bank of Swat river.
It is famous for its riverside tourist resorts, local handicrafts and offers a superb view of gushing river Daral and its merging with river Swat.
The people of Bahrain are expert in the cottage industry of wood carving, that's why wood work can be seen everywhere in the region. Similarly, it serve as perfect base camp of a charming trail that leads to Daral & Saidgai lakes.
A quarter of an hour past Madyan, the road squeezes through Behrain. Tourists stop to shop or have a look around for beautiful carved wood chairs and tables and other handicrafts. Behrainis are a mix of Pashtuns and Kohistanis (Torwali). Behrain is ten kilometres north of Madyan and only slightly higher, at about 1,400 metres (4,500 feet). It is another popular riverside tourist resort, with bazaars worth exploring for their handicrafts. Some of the houses have carved wooden doors, pillars and balconies. These show a remarkable variety of decorative motifs, including floral scrolls and bands of ornamental diaper patterns almost identical to those seen on Buddhist shrines and quite different from the usual Muslim designs. Because of intersection of two rivers this place is said to be call Bahrain. (intersection of two Rivers)
