{"id":6015,"date":"2024-04-09T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookmydestination.com\/kashmir\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2022-02-15T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:22:35","slug":"sonamarg-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookmydestination.com\/kashmir\/sonamarg-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonamarg Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Sonamarg Tourism<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sonmarg is a hill station in Ganderbal district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir about 80 km north-east of Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>Sonmarg, which means \u2018meadow of gold\u2019 has, as its backdrop, snowy mountains against a cerulean sky. The Sindh meanders along here and abounds with trout and mahseer, snow trout can be caught in the main river. In late April when Sonmarg is open for road transport, the visitors can have access to snow which is furnished all over like a white carpet. Private vehicles are not allowed. Visitors have to hire taxi and it is controlled by taxi mafia. Ponies can be hired for the trip up to Thajiwas glacier a major attraction during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>The climate of Sonmarg is very bracing; but the rainfall is frequent though not heavy, except for two or three days at a time in July and August with fine spell in between. From Sonmarg, trekking routes lead to the Himalayan lakes of\u00a0Vishansar Lake,\u00a0Krishansar Lake,\u00a0Gangabal Lake\u00a0and\u00a0Gadsar Lake, stocked with\u00a0Snowtrout\u00a0and\u00a0Brown trout and Satsar, glacier-fed and surrounded by banks of alpine flowers.<\/p>\n<p>A close by excursion is to Baltal, 15\u00a0km east of Sonmarg. This little valley lies at the foot of the\u00a0Zojila, only a day\u2019s journey away from the sacred cave of\u00a0Amarnath\u00a0is a base camp for\u00a0Amarnath yatra. Trekkers can also reach the starkly splendid roof-top of the world\u00a0Leh, by crossing over the Zoji La pass.<\/p>\n<p>At Sonmarg the Jammu and Kashmir tourism department\u00a0is organising river rafting tournaments yearly, which has recently seen the participation of teams abroad.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0A large number of Hindi movies have been filmed in Sonmarg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonamarg Tourism Sonmarg is a hill station in Ganderbal district in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir about 80 km north-east of Srinagar. Sonmarg, which means \u2018meadow of gold\u2019 has, as its backdrop, snowy mountains against a cerulean sky. 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