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River Rafting Is The Major Part of The Adventurous Kashmir Tours

Written by Adolf Jamie

Topic: TravelPublished March 19, 2012
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River Rafting Is The Major Part Of The Adventurous Kashmir ToursrnBoth Jammu and Kashmir have airports to commence the Kashmir tour from either of the Stations, which will be by road to various hot destinations giving the pleasure of Kashmir Tourism, such asrn•Srinagarrn•Gulmargrn•Phalgamrn•Sonmargrn•Patnitoprn•Sanasarrn•Katra for Vaishno Devirn•Leh/Ladakhrn•Kargilrn•Zanaskarrn•Nubra ValleyrnThere are different kinds of Kashmir tour packages offered by Travel Agents, taking care of the traveler’s accommodation, local tour cab arrangements, breakfasts and dinners, apart from Shikara ride and accommodation sometimes in House Boats in Lakes or Deluxe Tents. Adventure Tour packages are special kind of packages which the tourists will enjoy to the hilt and for instance, the itinerary for one such package for 13 nights/14 days will be as follows: •Day 1 the travelers fly from Delhi to Leh, sight-seeing and overnight stay therern•Day 2 they go round Leh and have a full day’s sight-seeingrn•Day 3 they drive through Leh, Lamayuru and Kargil for 5 hours enjoying panoramic view of the mountainrn•Day 4 they drive to Rangdum from Kargil, which is at 12000 ft heightrn•Day 5 again 7 hours drive from Rangdum to Pheyrn•Day 6 travelers have 18 km rafting to Karsha, where they stay overnightrn•Day 7 again 20 km raft from Karsha to Pidmu for 4 hoursrn•Day 8 one more raft for 25 km involving 5 hrs to Nyerakrn•Day 9 this time 35 km raft to Markha for 6 hoursrn•Day 10 the travel party hikes to Kaya and Skiurn•Day 11 one more day with the same hiking adventurern•Day 12 Raft Nimu-Saspul which is 20 km and 3 hours, and visit to Aalchi gompa •Day 13 a bit of relaxation and •Day 14 return from Leh to Delhi by flight. In this entire tour package, rafting is given prime importance since this sport is Leh’s most entrepreneurial travel event on the river Indus, and there are two different stretches of river used for rafting, one from Spitok to the Indus Zanskar confluence at Nimmu and the other from Nimmu to the ancient temple complex at Alchi, which are really long stretches of rafting. Travel agencies have online booking facilities through their websites for Kashmir tours and all the traveler has to do is to look into the right kind of travel package and book the tickets on line, as all the travel agents have the payment gateways linked through Credit Cards or net banking. Kashmir tourism department has provided lot of facilities for travelers and Kashmir tours can be one’s life time experience.

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