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Amarnath yatra going on smoothly, 3.50 lakh pay obeisance so far
7/29/2014 10:29:51 PM
Early Times Report

Srinagar, July 29: Pilgrimage was going on smoothly to holy Amarnath cave shrine in South Kashmir Himlayas where so far 3.50 lakh have had darshan of the self-made ice-Shivlingam since the commencement of the 45-day-long yatra from June 28. Weather is pleasent today though there was rain last night and pilgrimage was going on smoothly, a yatra official said.
They said that fresh batches of pilgrims, including women and sadhus left Baltal and Nunwan Pahalgam base camps for the holy cave early this morning.
Pilgrims who left Baltal will reach the cave shrine this afternoon, they said adding majority of them will start return journey after the darshan at the shrine. However, those who had night halt after darshan till last evening have also started their return journey to base camp this morning.
However, pilgrims who left Nunwan Pahalgam base camp this morning will have night halt at Chandanwari, the last motorable halting station on the traditional route. They said pilgrims, who had night halt at different halting stations on traditional route also started their journey towards the cave shrine. Those pilgrims who had reached Panjterni till last evening, reached the cave shrine this morning and paid obeisance.
A Met department spokesman said there could be rain on both shortest Baltal and traditional Pahalgam tracks during the next 24 hours.
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