Ideal Duration: 8-10 Days
Open Time: Throughout the year
Best Time: 1st July - 30th September
Nearest Airport: Srinagar
Nearest Railway Station: Udhampur
Kashmir Great Lakes is one of the most beautiful treks in India. No question, it validates Kashmir mythical status as heaven on earth with wild, rugged mountains, rolling meadows including turquoise alpine lakes.
Each day you can enjoy just perfect lakes surrounded with snow-capped mountains making it more beautiful. The alpine lakes are extremely beautiful. However, out of these alpine lakes, Gadsar may be the most untouched of the lot.
The thundering silence of the Kashmir lakes and its virgin beauty is spellbound. As a trek, you need great physical fitness with work on your health prepare yourself before arriving here.
Trailing within the Maple trees uphill, trekkers can enjoy the crystal clear view of the nearby villages downhill and especially the Sonamarg village. Massively tiny brooks struggling through the meadows and snowy peaks of small mountains mark the land of Shekdur.
Shekdur is the only campsite with trees on this trek. The trek to the Kashmir Great Lakes Trek will provide to the trekkers a perfect flavor of all hues of terrain- innumerable meadows, snow-clad glaciers, and pinnacles, passes, rocky barren lands, struggling streams. It's an extraordinary experience you can only feel that by visiting here.
For high altitude trek you have to carry essentials mentioned below:-
1) Trekking Shoes 2) Backpack 3) Cloths: a. 3 T-Shirts b. Insulation layer c. Outer layer d) Two Trek Pants 4) Sunglass 5) Suncap 6) Synthetic Woolen Gloves 7) Woolen Cap or Balaclava 8) Socks(3 pair) 9) Headlamp 10) Trekking Poles(a pair) 11) Rainwear 12) Rain cover for your backpack 13) Daypack : A Toilet Kit, Cutlery set, and Plastic Covers.
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