@Vaishnodevi #katra,jammukasmir Trip

we started trekking from here by foot , its around 14 km to travell up the mountain .

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This is the vaishnodevi temple situated in katra, zammu kashmir ,India . This is a place on the peaks of around 5,148 feet
where it's not easy to reach before but due to the facilities provided by the Jammu and Kashmir Government, it becomes far easy now.It is totally 14 km from down to up till temple. It will take the 6-7 hours for a middle-aged person to reach the temple without bog breaks the Facilities of Horses and Pitthu is available there. Special services are there for the handicap and old aged people. On the way to temple, you will get shops of water and other eatables easily but they charge us double the price. and seating arrangement is there for rest in between. You will find crowd everytime as its tourist attraction also. It's easy to reach there but buses are going at particular times. and you will easily get the auto's from here to go anywhere and explore the city. for shopping its good to Bargain. It is Situated about 40 kms from Jammu is Katra from where one starts the 'yatra' on foot for about 14 kms to reach the holy shrine. Chanting Jai Mata Di' the worshippers gain energy and confidence that the can reach the holy shrine. Enroute there are many food and refreshment stalls. Helicopter, pony and doli service are also available. Katra is now accessible by train also.

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we was at the top of the temple where we can see the whole zammu kashmir , all the mountains, the starting point where we started trekking . we were too exhausted and deciede to take rest and ate to get energised .you should know these things before going to jammu .
One must take yatra parchi free of cost from katra bus stand before beginning journey. Also you can take yatra parchi online from vaishno devi shrine board site.
Whole area till bhawan is maintained by vaishno devi shrine board. They have set up lot of self service restaurant along the way which provide food at reasonable cost. You can walk on foot, take pony ride or palki ride to bhawan. Please note - try to start your yatra early morning so that you can get pony at cheaper rate. Do bargain here a lot as they charge you a bomb. One having small chikd can take pitthu who can carry child and bags for you. Keep water bottle with you as the journey is long. When we reach half a way - Ardhkumari, we found long queue at Ardhkumari temple. We took token for temple and continue our journey. There are two seperate ways from Ardhkumari. If you are on foot, please take "hatnikund" way as it is quite simple, more develop, less steep and comfortable. Beware of monkey on the way. Please note no eatable, mobile, leather item, bag, shoes allowed inside main temple. You can buy prasad from shop from Shrine Board. We had great darshan after standing in Queue for 3 hours. There is place of stay near main bhavan where you can relax, stay if you wish to stay longer here. Also there is bhairav temple more 2km above main temple which is must visit. For climbing down one can prefer to take stairs at it is much faster.

this is the railway stationm where we arrived in jammu and we took local taxi to go katra city . we reached in around 1 hour to katra bus stand and we bought lockers to lock and secure our bags and took a small school bag to go for trekking with some foods , water bottles then bought tickets free of cost .

this is my favourite site where we took around 100 photos of ourself at there . most awesome view .

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we choose train to reach jammu kashmir , it was very comfortable and easy way to go there . we slept in train , enjoyed alot , singing , listening .

we enjoyed a lot there . I adviced you to go there , it was great journey with no fear , just go and experienced a great trip like this . there are many locations in india and i m going to share with u all in next post . good luck........!