We reached Baltal at around 8:00PM and we had to walk around a kilometer or so to reach the place where there were tents to sleep. The tents were quite good with warm blankets and all. There were a lot of food stalls where they were serving food for free. The kind of service that is provided to the yatries here is simply unbelievable, I haven't seen it anywhere else in India. People just go beyond the boundaries, they would never let the yatries wait for food, would always be around to provide the chairs, water etc. A salute to the J&K people.
We started at 5:00AM from the Baltal base camp to the Amarnathji ki guha, the holy cave where the shiva linga gets formed out of ice once a year.
We took the ponies. This time the name of my pony was 'Soldier', dad's was 'Badal' and mom's 'Raju'. Going to the Amarnath cave by ponies is probably one of the most adventurous things once can do and it is quite dangerous too as the path is very narrow and a mistake can take two lives (pony's and the rider's). The reason why they cannot make roads or lay railings there to reach the cave is because of the landslides that happens frequently. Given all this, the training the ponies would have undergone is something that amazed me, they hardly make any mistake!
Well amidst all this, we go there mainly to enjoy the nature which is just out of the world. One shouldn't miss going to this place at least once in a lifetime. I got a feeling that our country has such rich natural resources after crossing so many mountains, seeing so many kind of trees, the rivers, the snow. It was a place where rivers originate, the snow that falls on the mountains become ice rocks which then melts and flows as a river.
The entire journey is through these huge mountains, the himalayas. we spent around twelve hours in the valleys and peaks of these mountains. The sceneries are awesome, absolutely wonderful! I was so very glad for having been there, I am grateful to all those who are responsible for it. The pictures that follow is an attempt to substantiate my claim :-)
We took the ponies. This time the name of my pony was 'Soldier', dad's was 'Badal' and mom's 'Raju'. Going to the Amarnath cave by ponies is probably one of the most adventurous things once can do and it is quite dangerous too as the path is very narrow and a mistake can take two lives (pony's and the rider's). The reason why they cannot make roads or lay railings there to reach the cave is because of the landslides that happens frequently. Given all this, the training the ponies would have undergone is something that amazed me, they hardly make any mistake!
Well amidst all this, we go there mainly to enjoy the nature which is just out of the world. One shouldn't miss going to this place at least once in a lifetime. I got a feeling that our country has such rich natural resources after crossing so many mountains, seeing so many kind of trees, the rivers, the snow. It was a place where rivers originate, the snow that falls on the mountains become ice rocks which then melts and flows as a river.
The entire journey is through these huge mountains, the himalayas. we spent around twelve hours in the valleys and peaks of these mountains. The sceneries are awesome, absolutely wonderful! I was so very glad for having been there, I am grateful to all those who are responsible for it. The pictures that follow is an attempt to substantiate my claim :-)
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