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The Elusive Kaobal Gali

kaobal gali and the kaobal sar also known as the draupadi kund

The Kaobal Gali with the Kaobal Sar or Draupadi Kund at its foot

The Kaobal Gali stands at an Elevation of 4167 metres (app 13600 ft) on the main Great Himalayan Range has traditionally connected the Tulail and Gurez Valleys with the Mushkoh Valley in the Drass Region. Interestingly people on both sides of the Pass are Shina and speak Shina language just like their fellow Dardic Shina people in Gilgit. This is a peculiarity as usually when you cross a Pass on the Great Himalayan Range the Culture Language and People change. 

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tags: kaobal gali, kaobal pass, kaobal sar, draupadi kund, tulail, gurez, chakwali, mushkoh valley
categories: Himalayan Geography
Monday 09.04.23
Posted by Prashant Mathawan
 

Gurez and Tulail : Then and Now

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The Habba Khatoon Peak with the Kishanganga River in the foreground

Gurez is a Valley in the north of Kashmir. It stretches from a short way above Gurais Fort to below Sirdari. The main road, leading from Kashmir into the Valley, crosses the Rajdihgan Pass ; the distance from Bandipura, at the head of the Wular lake, to Kanzalwan, on the left bank of the Kishanganga, being about 25 miles, which is usually divided into three stages. The entrance to the valley is exceedingly picturesque, as the river comes dashing along through a rich meadow, partly covered with lindens, walnut, mud willow trees, while the mountains on either side present nothing but a succession of most abrupt precipices, end alpine ledges, covered with fir trees. It is nowhere above a mile in width, and is surrounded on every side by lofty peaks, chiefly of mountain limestone, rising far above the limit of forest which covers their lower slopes.

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tags: gurez, tulail, kashmir offbeat, kishanganga, habba khatoon, bagtore
Sunday 11.13.22
Posted by Prashant Mathawan
 

The Border River : Kishanganga aka Neelam

The Kishanganga River in Gurez

The Kishanganga is the main River flowing through the enchanting Gurez Valley rising in the Kishansar Lake (which is a part of the Group of Lakes commonly referred to as the Great Lakes) and flowing through some great Mountain scenery until its confluence with the Jhelum around Muzaffarabad in Pakistani held Kashmir. The River was renamed as the Neelam in Pakistan in the 1950s. Old Maps and Books still refer to it as the Kishanganga.

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tags: kishanganga, neelam, gurez, burzil, line of control, border river, tulail
Saturday 07.02.22
Posted by Prashant Mathawan
 

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