MoAnRa Travels

Enjoy our other Blogs -  MoAnRa Stories  |  MoAnRa Speaks Kasheer and Kushir || Pahalgam   ||  Gulmarg By Moutushi Ghoshdeysarkar From the sweltering heat of Delhi we reached the wet and cold capital of Kashmir. It was nothing like the Meluhan Srinagar but a city just like any other in India. Cars and traffic jams and flyovers and ongoing construction work, all the same. But then came the mighty Jhelam in sight and the mightier mountains to frame its calm and serene nature which she portrays once on these flat lands. The Kashmir valley is about 100 kms wide and is at an average elevation of approximately 6000 feet. The Pir Panjal range (inner Himalayas with average elevation 16000 feet) surrounds it in the south and west (where we have the LOC with Pakistan). Gulmarg is on one of the shoulder’s of one of the peaks (Apharwat) on these ranges. The north eastern sides of the valley are flanked by the mighty Himalays. The Ama...

Enjoy our other Blogs -  MoAnRa Stories  |  MoAnRa Speaks Gulmarg and back || Pahalgam   ||   Kasheer n Kushir By Moutushi Ghoshdeysarkar We the people of the plains, living near the sea level have a remarkable attraction towards the mountains and specially the white ones. The mountain people can hardly live away from them if not forced. Either ways mountains are revered by one and all, possibly because it is close to the perceived heavens. Whatever the ethos, man has always found the beauty of a snow capped mountain supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Well I wanted to use that word because it kind of suits the grandeur of those high peaks. It simply means wonderful. Pardon my idiocy. Gulmarg is just an hour and a half, tops two from Srinagar. It is a steady ascend from Srinagar at 5200 ft to 7021 ft till Tanmarg that is the base of the mountain atop which the ‘meadow of flowers’ lies. We started from Srinagar with a slight drizzle and took a ...