The Story Of the Goddess and the Valley of Kashmir

By Mirza Sanyal

Recently, I visited to Vaishno Devi in Kashmir. It was a great journey for me and my friend. We were seated in train from Ghaziabad Station. It was a whole night journey to reach Jammu station. Early in the morning we were on the Jammu Station. After reached their we took our seat in the bus for Katra Station. The actual Journey Start from Katra. In Katra, first of all we got the yatra ticket, which was absolutely free, and then we both had a bath. It was nice to see that most of piligrims were visiting on foot; some were on horse because they could not walk. We were young so we were walking faster as compared others. There is one thing, I would like to inform that there are three main places in this yatra one is Ardhkuwari, second is Mata's Bhawan and third is Bharav Mandir. Till afternoon we reached at Ardhkuwari where we again took the darshan ticket then we got the darshan of Ardhkuwari.

After Ardhkuwari darshan we started our yatra for Mata's Bhawan and till evening we were in the Bhawan. There we again took bath and got the Mata's darshan. After that we went Bhairav Mandir. It was a beautiful night for us. In the night we had our dinner at 10.O'clock, in the night we slept in the open place, many other's were their. Next morning we start our yatra to came down. After coming down we took bath and took rest after rest we visited in Katra market. We spent our money in the market shopping. Till night we were in the Jammu Station,(the entire night I was thinking of other high altitude places where I could see the snow. My thoughts took me to places like Shimla, Himalayas and Manali) where we took the return ticket and the next day we were in Noida, near Delhi. It was a great visit for us.