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Hill Station in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Photo: Saroj Kumar from Bangalore, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Patnitop is a small hill-station town in the Jammu Division of Jammu and Kashmir, far away from the military tension in the Kashmir Valley.
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There are Dhabas too. Although you do not see a semblance of a town, this is apparently the place where tourists find a short cut walkway to the Meadows.
There are dormitories and family in the midst of the trekkers paradise and the forest. This is the point where Great Natural Heritage Trekking Expedition passed through or took off.
Good budget hotel providing double rooms at ₹200 a night.
The location of this hotel is Highway touch and from here one can walk up the Meadows and Forests that makes Patnitop famous. From here one can catch local buses to Srinagar passing via Batote, Ramban and Banihal via the famous 2.5-km Jawahar Tunnel.
Mid-Market Hotel
Vardaan welcomes guests with a log fire and a view clear view through the building and its architecture and the landscape beyond. The welcome emphasises the location, in the wilderness of the mountain top, adjacent to the wildlife protected area and surrounded by forest.
By train
The nearest rail station to Patnitop is Udhampur, which has two trains per day that arrive from New Delhi.
Most of Patnitop can be seen around on foot. You can even hire ponies or taxis for longer distances.
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