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We woke up early in the morning in of the boat house at Dal Lake (Srinagar) and make ourselves ready for one of the most memorable trip of our lifetime. DAY 1  Srinagar We took a sharing cab from Srinagar Taxi Stand and headed towards Kargil (10 hrs drive) via enchanting Sonmarg and dangerous Zozila Pass (11,575 ft). We started near by 10am from Srinagar and reached Sonmarg by 12:30pm after that started heading towards Leh via Zozila Pass-the mountainous road was very narrow. We reached Drass by 15:30 and ate our drunch (lunch at drass) popular meat & rice and headed towards Kargil War Memorial within next 10min we reached there. It was just next to the Tiger Hill and well maintained by Army after that within next 2hrs we reached Kargil Taxi Stand and we took a hotel for our night halt. The hotel was just near the Taxi Stand facing the Suru River which is flowing towards Pakistan. Expenditure - Sharing Taxi for Kargil - 900/person Hotel at Kargil - 500/ room for 02 person...

I reached Uttar Kashi late evening from Barkot. Once reached found a cheap hotel for my night stay & slept. I woke up early in the morning and gone to the ganga ghat for a dip.The name of the ghat is manikarnika ghat. After breakfast i checkout from the hotel and went to pay a visit to the very famous Kashi Vishwanath Mandir near the bus stand. Now i have already heard that for Gaumukh trek one do not need guides as mandatory, but for Tapovan one must need govt permit & govt authorised travel agencies guides.  Some co-travellers were also with me who also wants to trek to Gaumukh.So accordingly we went to the Uttar Kashi Forest Office at Kotbangla.  " Tapovan   trek   permits   is   only   organised   from   Uttar   Kashi ". It is situated on the Uttar Kashi - Gangotri highway near by the taxi stand. On reaching the office we told them our interest to trek to Gaumukh & Tapovan. (Note-They will always tell you not to go the...