Winter Off-Season trip to Kashmir (Sharda-Kel)

[asim.shah]

This time had plan to visit Kashmir in Winter survived with extreme weather
Days : 3 - Friday - sunday morning
4 friends and legendary cuore

Trip Itinerary :

-Friday night at 12AM we left Lahore
-1st stopover 6-7:30AM at Murree for breakfast
-2nd stopover at Neelum River view point kohala
-3rd stopover at Valley walkers hotel for river view
-4th stopover at Sharda to park car and took jeep on rent and moved towards Kel
-5th stopover at Kel at night and try to lit fire for bonefire..meanwhile partially successful bonefire had done on snow ..
next day came back to sharda - visit sharda university ruins and visit kutton at night for some refreshment

total cost = 6400 Rs /person

[fkhan234]

Great. I myself am planning to visit kel in coming weeks. Can you please provide some details?
1- Road Condition: Are Roads open till KEL?
2- Accomodation: Hotels and Food Available in KEL or Sharda? Any recommendations? Charges of Hotels?
3- How much did the Jeep charge u from Sharda to KEL?
4- How much Snow was there in KEL area?
Any help will be appreciated. We are a family of four. All adults.

Last but not the least, please share pictures of your tour. Thank you.

[asim.shah]

sure happy to share details,,,,,

1-roads are in good condition till Sharda. when we visited there is no snow .. so roads are clear we used cuore tilll sharda...
2- Our accommodation is good, hotel manager is very much co operative and also provide fresh and hot food,, quality is also good. Bill - one night stay - dinner -bf and kawa included 2300 almost
3- jeep cost us 3300 round trip ,, sharda-kel-sharda... we reached kel at 10:30 Pm and return next day morning at around 12
4- in Kel you will find full snow.... you may visit arung kel too,,, for more snow...

yes sure i will collect pics and will share soon ..

[fkhan234]

Thank you for your help.
Can you please share the name of hotel in KEL and phone number of manager if u have it?

[asim.shah]

bro its not far from main road of kel .. you just turn left from main road to reach the hotel ,, unfortunately forgot the name and number ... i will share if i get....

[nomee2004]

very nice waiting for pics

[asim.shah]

yes , sure i will share soon,,, i was uploading pics but unfortunately there is some error pop up on flicker when i m going to start uploading... let me try again tonight...

[rehankillbill]

asim bhai thread chala kar farar sir jee aisa nahi chalega waiting for trip pics and further detail

[asim.shah]

sir kya kren time ijazt zra kam kam daita hai..... bs pics ae hi chahti hain....

[asim.shah]

Kohala Bridge

[asim.shah]

[asim.shah]

another view of the bridge

[asim.shah]

River neelum

[trailatlas17]

Looks like a nice trip happened.

[asim.shah]

thanks dear, no doubt we had a great time...

[trailatlas17]

I'll look forward to more trip report from you.

[asim.shah]

sure i will update as i get some time..

[asim.shah]

neelum jehlum hydro plant ,,, working in progress...

[zxmco125]

Nice to see you visited the cool area. Ain't you gone to Arung Kel? is it not open in snow season?

[asim.shah]

Me on visitors view point