Valley Of Flowers Trek
Apr 21 - 29 '20 | 10:00 PM (IST)
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Valley of Flowers is one of the best trekking destinations in Uttarakhand Himalayas. This heavenly valley is located at the Chamoli district. The Chamoli is one of the districts of Gharwal Mandal, Uttarakhand. The base camp for trekking into Valley of Flowers is Ghangharia which is the small picturesque town near Govindghat, Joshimath. The valley is blessed by the several species of flowers where some of them are rare to rarest. The valley is a conservative area for endangered and rare species of animals like blue sheep, leopards, snow leopards, Himalayan bears, musk deer & many more. The attitude range of valley is 3352 meters to 3658 meters above sea level. This area comes under the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve and considered to be one of the core zones. The whole valley stretched at the length of 8 kilometers and it is 2 kilometers wide in terms of land.
It is the high altitude valley and cast spells on the visitors by showing its full spectrum of flowers. This valley is administered by the Forest Department of Uttarakhand. It is just as the paradise for trekkers, photographers and a kind of research lab for botany students. The discovery of the valley is quite interesting in 1931 it was discovered by the British citizen Mr. Frank S. Smythe. He and his team members were coming from an expedition then after losing the way they reached there and got influenced by its beauty they named it -” The Valley of Flowers”.
In 1982 this valley had been declared as Nanda Devi National Park then later it becomes the Nanda Devi Biosphere and world heritage site by UNESCO in 2004. The other nearby place to the valley is a sacred site named as Hemkund Sahib. It is the only gurudwara that is located at a high altitude. This is the place where Sri Guru Govind Singh Ji meditated and established the Khalsa methodology. There is a high altitude lake that is also situated near the gurudwara which is known as Hemkund.
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