Hotel Asia Sripati Katra

... adjacent platform and there was all of a sudden a big commotion as people started running and jumping on to the train even before it had stopped. The train attendant was shouting at def ears. Some people looked as if they were moving home with trolley loads of metal cases and boxes. I'm glad I had a reserved sleeper seat.
My train eventually arrived an hour later than scheduled and with the wrong destinations marked on it but luckily the guy realised this was our train so he ...

Notre cher Javen nous amène le matin tôt en chikarak à la rive, un grand adieu et nos deux grands sacs, le chauffeur et nous deux partons en Tuc-tuc pour la gare routière. Arrivés sur place, nous nous répartissons les rôles comme d'hab dans les pays à dominance masculine dans la sphère publique : Je surveille les bagages, David se renseigne. Les prix des « shared taxis » n’est pas autour de 350 Rupees (7sfr) comme on nous avait dit, mais ils ont ...

... br> Then a miracle happened, we had Bulbul in our group and she has an army background. She made few calls and in a matter of 4 hours we had 6 VIP passes which is issued only to army. So finally we started our climb at 11:30am with the sun blazing on our head. At 5:30pm we reached the Temple and because we had VIP passes we got direct entry to the temple. After that we climbed another 2km to reach Bharavnath Mandir. At 5200 feets you can not even see the ...

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Patni top is a delighful picnic spot, magnificent views of mountains and Chenab basin. Here you can see an amazing dense forest of pine and chinar.

We visited the the famous Shiv temple. And then the garden!!
Wow! what a nice garden, full of flowers and tall straight pine trees. The green bed of the garden was attracting us, my son went to roll over on the green lawn.

One girl was holding 2 ...

... sight of ice mountains.
Then there is a big tunnel of aroung 3 km which is the boundry line between Jammu and Srinagar. This tunnel is one way and is the lognest one. Security is provided from both the sides of the tunnel. The tunnel is closed everyday in the evening.

Then there is one more tunnel near to Srinagar "green tunnel". This is with the trees. Big trees from both sides are so close and they appear as if it is a tunnel.

We reached our hotel in Srinagar around 8.30 pm

... to reach to the temple. You can hire palki, pony (horse), helicopter or walk.Most of the people prefer walk with the religious thought. For small kids "pithu" facility is available, we had hired one pithu for my kid, see the photo.

But we took the shortest and easiest way while going. We had been told that it will take 5-8 mins by helicopter but we reached in 2.5 minutes after crossing many mountains.
Then we ...

... bow and arrows with her, and was always surrounded by langoors (apes) and a ferocious looking lion. Bhairon Nath was enamored by Vaishnavi's extraordinary beauty, and losing all good sense he began to pester Vaishnavi to marry him. Meanwhile a staunch devotee of Vaiashnavi, Mata Sridhar organised a Bhandara (Community meal) in which the whole village and Guru Gorakh Nath along with all his followers including Bhairon were invited. During the course of Bhandara Bhairon ...

... shrine.After this visit as planned we also visited the mountain top, Patnitop and Sanasar . We had one and half days in hand , before travelling to Jammu,at Delhi.Hence, we took days trip to Jaipur. While on our return journey ,we travelled to Chandigarh. So in a span of 12 days , out of which six days were in the train as we were travelling from Bangalore, we could cover four destinations.So we guess it was a well planned trip.

... could never show the true be*uty *nd *m*zing-ness of them. I've seen tons of photos of them in m*g*zines *nd books, but you c*n't re*lly see the true unbelieve*bility of them until you see them for yourself. We w*lked out of the pl*ne *nd were surprised *t how m*ny soldiers there were, it seemed twice *s m*ny soldiers th*n in J*mmu *irport. I w*s quite fre*ked, bec*use e*ch one of them w*s c*rrying * huge m*chine gun str*pped *cross their ...

... though, so he looked out for us and found out what was going on. It turned out that extra carriages were to be tacked on to the end of the train once it had arrived at the station, so after a worrying start we got onto our carriage and found our seats without a problem. We were really grateful for his help and it made us realise that although, with the constant hassle, it's easy to think that they're all out to get you, there are actually lots of lovely helpful people too. (R)