Re: Amarnath Trek
Pranam
EM, it seems you have been mis informed, the yatra to Amarnath has a very small window. Use to be about two months but this has gradually shrunk to about 5/6weeks. Generally this yatra begins around late June to aug. I think the last day of darsan is on Rakshabandhan. 40000 pilgrimage could not have made this trip already this year.
I think around 150000 faithful make this arduous journey every year, I am sure a lot more then this amount of people would make this journey if it was not for the political situation in Kasmir, terrorist. Army is deployed and stretched all the way to the top. Last year, despite the effort of our army, sadly friend of mine in laws,she was from UK,became victim of this terrible terror.
To begin this yatra one has to first fill registration form and provide medical certificate, no children or anyone above 75 is allowed the trip.
Yatra to the cave of Amarnath which is about 14000ft high, begins from Chandanwari some 16kfrom Pahalgam, this is the furthest I have been, only recently dec2012 on my trip to Vaishnodevi. I only explored this place because on our way back to Jamu from Srinagar the road were closed due to heavy snow fall. I must say I was mortified when we got stuck in the tunnel for three hours all kind of thought went through our mind which we did not speak off at the time but confirmed it when we crossed back to Jamu.
In my estimation the yatra to chardham is no different to Amarnath yatra, perhaps there is more trekking to do on Amarnath if you exclude trek to Go-mukh and beyond to Tapovan. Off course the higher you go difficult it gets, so far my experience tells me Kailash being 19000ft high trek does test ones resolve. I shell try to relay more information of my trip to this place hopefully soon Believer.
Jai Shree Krishna
Last edited by Ganeshprasad; 20 March 2013 at 09:57 AM.
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