Thousands of Hindu devotees, including women and children, moved to Pahalgam base camps and Baltali two days before the cavalcade Amarnath pilgrimage, the first group of 73 vehicles carrying 2,096 Yatri officially flagged off in Jammu on Tuesday.
"We came here last weekend and it is to enjoy rafting, fishing and other sports. We also went to Aru (meadow surrounded by dense forest of pine trees near Pahalgam) and before that visited Mughal Gardens in Srinagar, hailed the Sankara-chary temple and the short is not skiing on Dal Lake, "said Manoj Kumar Savarkar from Surat, where he and his wife and two children after the foundation had suffered enjoy whitewater rafting in Pahalgam on Tuesday.
Tourism officials said the valley's leading resort, it has witnessed an unprecedented rush of vacationers during the last few weeks."Over the past few days, thousands of pilgrims who plan to Amarnath came too so it is difficult for us to organize an accommodation for them. On Sunday, more than 50,000 local day trips Kashmir Pahalgam, and had also turned up as it used to enliven summer before the start of sõjakuse, "said Firdous Ahmed.Some visitors complained they paid and hoteliers ponywallas.
Pilgrims are allowed to begin their journey through the rugged mountains of the foot to pay homage to the Amarnath Shivlingum at 12,729 feet high cave shrine on Wednesday morning as Baltali and Pahalgam base camps, 96 km north of Srinagar.
This two and a half months to formally begin the pilgrimage. The process will be completed in 13 August, which coincided with Rakhsha Bandhan.
Meanwhile, pilgrims from Rajasthan were killed by cardiac arrest is Baltali base camp Tuesday, reports our special correspondent.Fifty-five-year-old Rajinder Singh, a resident of Jagdamba Nagar Jaipur, waited with the others, to be allowed to start the trip on foot, dead cave shrine, where he had a massive heart attack and shortly after.
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