{"id":45837,"date":"2023-07-15T11:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T06:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/?p=45837"},"modified":"2023-07-15T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T06:06:43","slug":"amarnath-yatra-over-7000-pilgrims-leave-for-twin-base-camps-from-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/amarnath-yatra-over-7000-pilgrims-leave-for-twin-base-camps-from-jammu\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Yatra: Over 7,000 pilgrims leave for twin base camps from Jammu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 62-day annual pilgrimage to 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath began on July 1<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Jammu, July 15<\/p>\n

A fresh batch of over 7,000 pilgrims left Jammu city early Saturday for the twin base camps in the Valley to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, officials said.<\/p>\n

The 62-day annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas commenced from the twin tracks\u2014the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag and the shorter 14-km Baltal route in the Ganderbal\u2014on July 1.<\/p>\n

The officials said the 13th batch of 7,392 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in a convoy of 272 vehicles amid tight security.<\/p>\n

While 4,024 pilgrims left for Pahalgam in a convoy of 146 vehicles, 3,368 devotees left for Baltal in 126 vehicles around 4 am, they said.<\/p>\n

With this, a total of 80,181 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp for the Valley since June 30.<\/p>\n

Pilgrims from across the country undertake the Amarnath Yatra to pay obeisance at the holy cave shrine that houses a naturally formed ice shivlingam.<\/p>\n

At 24,445, the highest number of pilgrims offered prayers at the shrine on Friday. So far, over 1.90 lakh devotees have undertaken the yatra.<\/p>\n

This number is likely to cross the 2-lakh mark by this evening, the officials said.<\/p>\n

The pilgrims are being provided all the facilities by the departments concerned round the clock, they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 62-day annual pilgrimage to 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath began on July 1 Jammu, July 15 A fresh batch of over 7,000 pilgrims left Jammu city early Saturday for the twin base camps in the Valley to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, officials said. The 62-day annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,16185],"tags":[24311,24319,20883,24306,24323,24312,24313,24320,24317,24321,24308,24310,24322,24314,24309,24316,24307,24315,24318],"class_list":["post-45837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-national","tag-amarnath","tag-amarnath-guide","tag-amarnath-yatra","tag-amarnath-yatra-2023","tag-amarnath-yatra-2023-latest-news","tag-amarnath-yatra-2023-update","tag-amarnath-yatra-baltal-route","tag-amarnath-yatra-helicopter","tag-amarnath-yatra-latest-update","tag-amarnath-yatra-live","tag-amarnath-yatra-news","tag-amarnath-yatra-news-today","tag-amarnath-yatra-opening-date","tag-amarnath-yatra-pahalgam-route","tag-amarnath-yatra-registration","tag-amarnath-yatra-rfid-card","tag-amarnath-yatra-update","tag-amarnath-yatra-vlog","tag-amarnath-yatra-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45838,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45837\/revisions\/45838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/presskitaquat.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}