Explore The Unseen Kashmir – Watch “Escape To Kashmir” – A Travel Film

 

Great Lakes Trek – Kashmir

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Hello, travelers, our guest authors, filmmakers  & Travelers ( not necessarily in that order )  Tina & Debarup Mukherjee are back with a wonderful photo story and travel film – “Escape To Kashmir “about the  Kashmir Great Lakes Trek.  Check out the images, article and the short travel film that is winning hearts and inspiring travelers around the world to travel. Kudos to Debarup &  Tina for sharing their passion to travel & making this beautiful movie on Great Lakes Trek in Kashmir – Escape to Kashmir . Needless to say, this is a real trek not like the Bollywood Style Treks  shown in our movies 🙂

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Over to Tina & Debarup Mukherjee 

There is only one World, one life and only one you. So, why wasting time!? Don’t be the one who says not traveling, not perusing their dream is their biggest regret.

Well, even I don’t want to regret myself also. That is why I took the final decision to visit Kashmir this year in July 2018. But it was not a normal trip of Kashmir like visiting Srinagar, Gulmarg, Sonamarg, going for sightseeing etc. It was an alpine trek called Kashmir Great Lakes or KGL Trek. Many people don’t know about this trek till now. So it is quite unexplored by most of the people.

Well before I give you the details about this trek, I am requesting you to watch this travel film made by me on this trek and it is called “Escape to Kashmir”

As the situation of Kashmir is not stable most of the time, it was quite hard for me to take the decision for traveling in Kashmir and doing this trek. Most of the people only said negative things about Kashmir, they were giving me negative all the time. But I and my wife were determined to this. So we started our journey on 7^th July 2018 from Kolkata and rest is history. We completed a life-changing journey of our life, trekked through 7 unknown lakes in the breathtaking valley, crossed 3 high altitude passes and completed nearly 80 km in 7 days.

 

So here is the detailed itinerary of the Kashmir Great Lakes Trek

• Total Trek Days: 8 Days (Basically it takes 7 days but you should keep 1 Day as Buffer day)
• High altitude you will gain during this trek: 14,000 ft+
• High altitude passes you will cross: 3 (Nichnai, Gadsar & Zazpass)
• Total Lakes you will see: 7+
• No Physical test needed
• Trek Season: June end week to September first week
• Difficulties: It is a moderate trek

 

Day 1: Fly to Srinagar – Drive to Sonamarg Base Camp, Shitkadi (4 hrs of travel by car)

Day 2: Sonamarg to Nichnai Camp via Shekdur – 9 km trek (6-7 hrs)

Day 3: Nichnai Camp to Vishansar camp via Nichnai Pass – 11 km (6-8 hrs)

Day 4: Vishansar Camp to Gadsar Camp via Vishansar Lake, Krishansar Lake twin lakes and crossing Gadsar Pass and Gadsar Lake – 10 km – (6-8 hrs)

Day 5: Gadsar Camp to Satsar through Satsar lakes – 12 km (6-7 hrs)

Day 6: Satsar to Gandarbal & Nundkol twin lakes Camp at the foot of Mt. Harmukh – 9 km (5-6 hrs)

Day 7: Gandarbal to Naranang – 11 km (6-7 hrs)

Naranag to Srinagar by Car.

You can contact local Kashmiri trekking agencies for this trek. They are very very experienced, reliable and well organized. We got a good tent, sleeping bags, food, and guides.

This trek is the prettiest trek among the other treks in India. This is one of the beautiful treks where you can get all variety of natural aspects like the lush green meadow, grassy shores of the lakes, glacier lakes, wide valley where sheep graze, horses run, crossing the streams, Maple forest, boulders crossing, colorful flowers and divine view of snow clad mountains.

Lastly, I would say, not everyone gets chance to go that close to nature, if you want to go and feel the nature truly then Kashmir Great Lakes Trek is highly recommended for you. Go and get lost into this ethereal beauty.

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About Author 

Debarup Mukherjee

Hi, This is Debarup. I and my companion Tina are the Travel Blogger & Travel Couple from India. We are traveling together for the last 7 years. We started traveling and trekking in 2013. While traveling, we like to explore the nature & mountains. These leave us in wonder about the mysteries behind each and every curve of it. That’s the reason we started a travel blog called Top Five Buzz to share our travel experience with you. Top Five Buzz is a Travel Blog with a readership of over 5000 travelers. Come join us in this travel community and share your travel experience, photos & videos. Till then, Travel, Share & Inspire. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram

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