{"id":3049,"date":"2015-06-23T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T04:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T04:30:53","slug":"hemkund-sahib-trek-opens-25-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hemkund-sahib-trek-opens-25-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemkund Sahib Trek opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2068\/3534351507_8330b9d090_o.jpg?resize=500%2C332&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hemkund Sahib Gurudwara<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">The famous pilgrimage in Himalayas Chardham opened from \u00a0May \u00a0, <strong>the Hemkund Sahib and Lokpal Temple 10 km trek is open from Gobind Ghat to Ghangharia and then 5 km steep climb to the main shrine<\/strong> . Each year Advance party \u00a0a team of Indian Army soldiers first climb up this trek and declare its condition to open the route ,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGroup of priests and pilgrims then follows to reach the valley with a Lake called<strong> Hemkund ( Pool of Ice )\u00a0a high-altitude lake (4329 m) surrounded by seven\u00a0snow caped mountains collectively called Hemkund Parvat.<\/strong> According to the Dasham Granth , Bichitra Natak ( Authored by 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji) he meditated at this place in his previous birth . This place has a high regards among the Sikh Community\u00a0\u00a0. There is a Star shaped Gurudwara where pilgrims pay their respect .<br \/>\n<strong>According to the Hindu mythology\u00a0Rishi Medhasa of the Markandeya Purana and Lakshman, the brother of Lord Ram also meditated here .<\/strong><br \/>\nPilgrims are not allowed to stay overnight here , they have to return for a night stay at Ghangharia where \u00a0there are many guest house and camps, also there is a Gurudwara one can stay in dormitories with common private facilities.<br \/>\nFrom Govind Ghat palkis , Mules and helicopter service is also available till Ghangharia .<br \/>\n<strong>For more information please contact<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> + 91 9810506646<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Callers from outside India contact <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">+\u00a044 7700093414\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Email:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> promark@promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blog:<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"> www.promarktravels.com\/blog<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous pilgrimage in Himalayas Chardham opened from \u00a0May \u00a0, the Hemkund Sahib and Lokpal Temple 10 km trek is open from Gobind Ghat to Ghangharia and then 5 km steep climb to the main shrine . Each year Advance party \u00a0a team of Indian Army soldiers first climb up this trek and declare its <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hemkund-sahib-trek-opens-25-may-2014\/\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,11,12,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,26,27],"tags":[343,495,591,864,865,929,930,1020,1022,1023,1044,1045,1119,1616,1782,2328,2592,2594,2822],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-helicopter-charters","category-himalayas","category-history","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-sri-badrinath","category-sri-kedarnath","category-trekking","category-uttarakhand","category-wildlife","tag-bichitra-natak","tag-chardham","tag-dasham-granth-bichitra-natak-authored","tag-gobind-ghat","tag-gobind-singh-ji","tag-guru-gobind-singh","tag-guru-gobind-singh-ji","tag-hemkund","tag-hemkund-parvat","tag-hemkund-sahib","tag-himalayas","tag-himalayas-chardham","tag-indian-army","tag-lord-ram","tag-markandeya-purana","tag-rishi-medhasa","tag-sikh-community","tag-sikh-guru","tag-temple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}