places and people

A very happy and meaningful new year to all my reader friends.  May all your dreams come true without creating any nightmares for others 🙂 This is my last post on this series  and I would like to end with  Pahalgam, which is called the Valley of the Shepherds quite aptly.  Everywhere we went, shepherds with their herds were seen as if Pahalgam and shepherds were integrated. We were told that in winter they go down to Jammu and in summer they come back to Pahalgam, but always live in the open, with their herds. All cars going up or down have to respect and give first right of passage to them at all times.  We liked this courtesy to the children of the soil  🙂 Pahalgam is situated at about 7200 feet up from sea level and very picturesque.  At one time between 1960 to 1980, this was one of the favourite shooting spots for Hindi film industry as

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