kashmir trip 2011 part 1

This Kashmir trip was planned in March 2011 itself .All the flight tickets were purchased in March , so we got good deal , In rs-10000 per person we got the flight tickets for all the three - mumbai to jammu , jammu to srinagar , srinagar to mumbai , we were all 3 families , - 8 Adult and one child


Day -1 - 29th October 2011
we had booked Meru the previous day for drop to domestic airport , Santacruz , time 3.30 am .
Meru arrived on time , Reached the airport by 4.00 am . we had to wait for other members , soon they also arrived , and we checked in by 4.30 am , The flight was on time , Spice jet 5.55 am .Reached Jammu by 10 am . collected the baggage and proceeed to taxi stand , we booked two indica  for Rs-975 each for Katra
soon we were on the road . Had the lunch at Apna Bhaba (Kabutarwala ) , the food was as usual tasty ,
At the entry at Katra , we were stuck at the traffic for half an hour , Reached JKTDC tourist bunglow , Hotel Saraswati which was prebooked on the internet . we were tired and feeling sleepy as we had to get up early in the morning to catch the flight , we had a good sleep , In the evening had the Dinner at Jewel ,

Day -2 - 30th October 2011
Got up 2.30 am . got ready for Yatra by 3.30 am , we had already taken the yatra slip form internet . Reached Banganga by 4.00 am ,had the breakfast  at local dhaba , we reached Bhavan by 8.00 am , Had the bath with ice cold water and had the darshan . By 11.00 am we started to get down , on the way we had the lunch , reached  banganga by 3.00 pm . took the auto to our Hotel , he charged Rs-150.00 .per auto .
we had a good malish from the malishwala ,as our legs were paining .
In the evening had dinner at the JKTDC restaurant at the Hotel itself , we booked the Traveller for Rs-1300.00 for next day drop to Jammu airport


Day - 3 - 31st October 2011
Got up in the morning 6.00am  and got ready for return . had breakfast of tea and breadbutter at roadside chaiwala -by 7.30 we started the return journey and reached Jammu airport by 8.30 am . our flight to Srinagar was on time 11.45 . there was enough time at airport for time pass . Did some photosession , soon the military people stopped us from photosession .the flight was delayed by 30 min . 12.15 boarded the flight and within 25min reached Srinagar airport , we had already booked Innova for pick up from airport to Pahalgam from Hotel Brown . Our Driver Yusufbhai was waiting for us at the airport , Loaded the laugage and started for Pahalgam .

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