{"id":12893,"date":"2023-07-15T05:31:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammukashmirlinks.com\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2023-07-15T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T05:31:12","slug":"amarnath-yatra-over-7000-pilgrims-leave-for-twin-base-camps-from-jammu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/?p=12893","title":{"rendered":"Amarnath Yatra: Over 7,000 pilgrims leave for twin base camps from Jammu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jammu :<\/strong> A fresh batch of over 7,000 pilgrims left Jammu city early Saturday for the twin base camps in the Valley to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-day annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas commenced from the twin tracks \u2014 the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag and the shorter 14-km Baltal route in the Ganderbal \u2014 on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said the 13th batch of 7,392 pilgrims left the Bhagwati Nagar base camp in a convoy of 272 vehicles amid tight security.<\/p>\n<p>While 4,024 pilgrims left for Pahalgam in a convoy of 146 vehicles, 3,368 devotees left for Baltal in 126 vehicles around 4 am, they said.<\/p>\n<p>With this, a total of 80,181 pilgrims have left the Jammu base camp for the Valley since June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims from across the country undertake the Amarnath Yatra to pay obeisance at the holy cave shrine that houses a naturally formed ice shivlingam.<\/p>\n<p>At 24,445, the highest number of pilgrims offered prayers at the shrine on Friday. So far, over 1.90 lakh devotees have undertaken the yatra.<\/p>\n<p>This number is likely to cross the 2-lakh mark by this evening, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The pilgrims are being provided all the facilities by the departments concerned round the clock, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu : A fresh batch of over 7,000 pilgrims left Jammu city early Saturday for the twin base camps in the Valley to join the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, officials said. The 62-day annual pilgrimage to the 3,880-metre-high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas commenced from the twin tracks \u2014 the traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jammu","category-latest-news","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jammukashmirhighlights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}