{"id":30413,"date":"2025-07-03T05:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=30413"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:46:55","slug":"amarnath-yatra-begins-as-pilgrims-set-out-from-baltal-nunwan-base-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/amarnath-yatra-begins-as-pilgrims-set-out-from-baltal-nunwan-base-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Yatra Begins As Pilgrims Set Out From Baltal, Nunwan Base Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Jul 3: The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a naturally formed ice-lingam, officials said.<br \/>\nThe yatra started early morning from the twin tracks \u2014 the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route and the 14-km Baltal route.<br \/>\nThe batches of pilgrims, including men, women and sadhus, left from the Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag, and Baltal base camp in Sonamarg area of central Kashmir\u2019s Ganderbal at the first light of the day, the officials said.<br \/>\nThe chants of \u2018bum bum bole\u2019 filled the air as the batches were flagged off by senior officials from the respective base camps, they added.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday (July 2, 2025), the first batch of 5,892 yatris was flagged off from the yatra base camp in Jammu\u2019s Bhagwati Nagar by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.<br \/>\nThe pilgrims reached the Kashmir Valley in the afternoon and received a rousing welcome from the administration and locals.<br \/>\nThey will pay obeisance at the cave shrine, which houses the naturally occurring ice-lingam formation.<br \/>\nStringent security arrangements have been put in place for the smooth conduct of the yatra.<br \/>\nThousands of security personnel from the police, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and other paramilitary forces have been deployed to ensure security. Aerial surveillance will also be carried out.<br \/>\nThe 38-day pilgrimage will conclude on August 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30414\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30414\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Amarnath-yatra-1-1536x1026-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Amarnath Yatra Begins As Pilgrims Set Out From Baltal, Nunwan Base Camps\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amarnath Yatra Begins As Pilgrims Set Out From Baltal, Nunwan Base Camps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Jul 3: The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a naturally formed ice-lingam, officials said. The yatra started early morning from the twin tracks \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-header","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-national"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amarnath Yatra Begins As Pilgrims Set Out From Baltal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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