Hotel Asia Shripati Katra
Katra Vaishno Devi Katra, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180003, India
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Jammu und Kashmir
... hab dann auch mal ein anderes probiert "godfather" - hat mich stark an den beercontest an irgendeine fernoestliche pfuetze (japan oder china) erinnert - eine 650ml-qual.
am naechsten morgen den bus nach srinagar - mit pausen ca. 10h fuer die etwa 300 km - viel verkehr und kurven - es geht in die berge.
bin mittlerweile in srinagar im kashmir - bericht folgt morgen - hab jedenfalls einen sonnenbrand.
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A Rest
Ah. Finally. A rest. 26 hours it took to get from Leh to Jammu. Pretty good time actually. 750 KM in 26 hours. Average of 30km/hr. Well, for the road we were on, its pretty damn good.
Our final stop in India was Mumbai. We were going to make a stop for a day to break up the journey. We figured we'd have to go through Delhi. The trains to Delhi were booked (as ...
The Yatra
... they absolutely love this music. As for me, I find it a little difficult to focus on a spiritual experience while the radio is blasting "main lal chunariya laiyee, maiyya tere liye"!
It had rained heavily the previous night and apparently one of the two main roads to Katra was blocked by landslides, a common phenomenon here. After a couple of U turns and detours we got onto what is presumably a major highway to Katra, but which was now extremely crowded because ...
Stopover in nondescript Jammu en route to Srinagar
An early start this morning, like 4am, so I could go to the Golden Temple one more time and get some pictures at dawn. Then off to the bus station to catch a bus to Jammu; from there on to Srinagar tomorrow is my plan. There isn't much else of interest in Amritsar to keep me here and it's a typical Indian city in that it is overcrowded, noisy, dirty and polluted.
There isn't anything worth seeing ...
Pink Eye and and Truckstop stays - Jammu
... its path through the floor of the valley.
We checked in at the tourist sign post and after we’d signed our lives away headed into the belly of the beast, a 2.5km tunnel right at the entrance to Kashmir that delves into the depths of one of the valleys walls. Instantly the temperature drops and as the darkness becomes more prominent it would be easy to imagine you’d taken off for a day’s spelunking in New Zealand rather than a summertime ride in India. The ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Hotel Asia Sripati



