Trekking journey through 3 passes over 4,000m of Vietnamese female tourist

Kashmir is the most remote region in the northwest of India, with a natural landscape so beautiful that it is often called “paradise on earth”. Previously, Kashmir was referred to as the Kashmir valley located between the Himalayas and Pir Panjal mountain ranges.

Today, the name refers to a larger area that includes the Indian territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh; Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan; and China-administered Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract.

Among them, Srinagar city is famous as the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir, attracting a large number of domestic and international tourists to visit from May to October.

Vietnamese tourists may have heard of Srinagar's tourist attractions, but not many have set foot on the trekking routes in Kashmir. The photo shows the first stop of the Kashmir Great Lakes (KGL) trek - the most beautiful hike in India's summer. The photos were taken by Huong Chi, a tourist from Hanoi, during her recent journey to explore Kashmir.

Unlike Vietnam, where the trekking and mountain climbing season starts from September to early April of the following year when the weather gradually turns cold and it is easy to hunt clouds on high mountains, Kashmir from July to the end of September is the most attractive time for trekkers when it is not too cold and there is thick snow and ice.

The most special feature of Kashmir summer is the blooming of a variety of wild flowers all over the mountainsides and grasslands.

The carpet of yellow flowers stretches endlessly on the breathtakingly beautiful KGL trek. Currently, there are no professional, all-inclusive tour operators from Vietnam. Visitors who want to go to KGL or other treks in Kashmir mostly search for information and join groups in India.

Vietnamese tourists who want to go will often buy flight tickets from Vietnam to Delhi, Delhi to Srinagar, prepare visas and book land tours for 16,000 - 17,000 rupees per person (4.8 - 5.1 million VND) to experience this route. KGL is a trekking route that lasts 7 days and 6 nights in an area without electricity or signal; the land tour here will include a kitchen to prepare 3 meals, mainly vegetarian food, tents, sleeping bags, local guides, shuttles to the starting point of the trek, and permits for tourists.

The KGL journey starts from Sonarmag, passes through 3 major passes: Nichnai (4080m), Gadsar (4180m), Zajibal (4080m) and many rivers and lakes whose water source is from melted ice on the mountains and ends at Naranag village. Every day you wake up, a 360-degree picture will open before your eyes with pristine mountains, green meadows and countless turquoise lakes that are breathtakingly captivating.

There are places where the hills and valleys are covered with flowers, tiny wildflowers blooming and covering the ground.

However, this is not an easy walk and requires the trekker to have good physical strength to overcome many different types of terrain. You will experience from rugged forest roads, scattered rocks, cold lakes and streams, slippery ice, steep rocky slopes and especially adapt to the altitude of 3,000 - 4,500m. Each day the trek lasts an average of 11-15 km continuously going up steep slopes and down deep into the valley.

In return for the difficulties encountered on the road, the natural landscape and people in Kashmir always surprise you. In addition to the carpets of bright yellow, purple, and pink flowers spread underfoot, majestic mountains with snow-capped peaks surrounding, the deeper you go, the more stone huts you will see, people herding cattle and many goats, sheep, cows, and horses leisurely grazing. They are allowed to graze on fresh grass all summer and in the fall and winter they will be brought back to the village to be harvested for milk and wool.

In case you are not strong enough to trek for 7 days or have health problems, you can rent a horse for about 2,000 rupees per day (equivalent to 600,000 VND). Horses are also the main means of transporting luggage for tourists as well as other necessities for local people.

Tourists stop on the mountainside, between fragrant flowers on one side and bare rocks and white snow on the other.

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