Discover yourself. Reconnect with your heart. This place will fill your heart with love for those who sacrificed their lives for the well-being of the people of the country. The serenity in the ambience speaks for itself about their honesty. The place that then made me realize that people under the same sky can live with an altogether different goal. Here is one who is dying to live for self, and the other who is living to die for others. I do hats off to such emotions that exist among people.
With not much awareness of the offerings the place and nature are going to bestow on us, we headed straight towards Kargil from Srinagar. This post is all about my exciting journey to Kargil after we were done with Srinagar. Until the Srinagar effect, there was greenery all around. The valleys of Kashmir proved to be a paradise on earth. And I bet that this paradise has no limit if you continue to travel further. No doubt we made the right choice to complete our journey till Leh – Ladakh and return via Sarchu and then Manali, otherwise we would have witnessed only a limited paradise.
The more we traveled towards Kargil, the more we realized the change in shades of the valleys. We left empty-handed to let nature show us all its form, and thus we can’t say NO to any of its offerings.
A Short Stay in SONMARG on the Way
The local houses and markets were vanishing from view as we moved ahead to our destination out of Srinagar. The Kashmir Valley confronted us, or shall I say, the Paradise on Earth opened its arms to let us breathe in there. It was all fresh. The Air was so damn fresh. The road with the green hills sideways and a small river below it converted the childhood storybook images into reality. The landscape was all changed for the better, and there we were at the spot. SONMARG.
We parked the car somewhere at the corner of the hillside. It was not just one time. We could not stop ourselves from clicking with the utmost beautiful nature all around us. We made a halt at more than 10 stops, I guess. It was unbelievable, and our excitement was unwavering, too. The place is incomparably beautiful, and I wish I could be there for hours admiring its beauty.
What Kargil offered us was awestruck??
Now is the time to continually climb up the never-ending rocky hills. After moving further from Sonmarg, we had to make our way straight to Kargil. We had a target to reach by the evening so that we could search for a nice place to stay for that night. Climbing up to the rocky hills in the Himalayan ranges as we were moving ahead was somehow scary and exciting. The view was awestruck, but the move was dangerous. Yuhuuu.
Kargil War Memorial is located at the foothill of Tololing hill on the Srinagar- Leh highway at a distance of around 50 kilometers from Zojilla Pass and is built by the Indian Army. This War Memorial is open throughout the year from 7 AM to 8 PM. And there is no entry fee for the same. This is one of the must-visit places while on a visit to Kargil that will surely evoke the feeling of nationalism and patriotism. There is one memorial house too that describes the major events of the war with pictures. We went in there and left a note saluting the bravery of our soldiers. There also exists a Sandstone wall where the names of all soldiers who died are inscribed. One of the soldiers there narrated the story of the entire War, and the pride of being part of the Indian Army was quite evident from his voice. The place is also well-maintained and neat, and clean.
