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 Mata Vaishno Devi tour plan with Helicopter

We have visited on 16th Jan 2025 in winter. While planning your trip to Vaishno Devi with helicopter or otherwise following tips will be very useful. 

1.    If you are planning with old age parents, they should be prepared to at least walk 1.5 km. With all facilities also, it is a little tiresome job for them to get darshan. If they can't walk at all, better not to take them there.

2.    If you are looking for helicopter ride for your tour, you must first book your helicopter ticket at https://www.maavaishnodevi.org/ two months before the trip and plan your trip according to helicopter date. 

3.    Your helicopter may travel if atmosphere is clear. If fog or snowfall comes, ride gets cancelled and full refund is provided. You need to cancel the tickets on either departure or arrival station. 

4.    Please go as early as possible to helipad even you have later slot, they accommodate early as well. Atmosphere is clear generally in morning early hours and can get worse as day progresses. They will group you by weight and your group may be divided in to 2-3 depending upon your group size.

5.    If your helicopter gets cancelled and you can not walk around 12 km (one way) you have option of horse and "Palkhi". Fixed rates are there. Horse around 1200 and palkhi around 3750 one way.

6.    Helicopter will leave you at Sanchichhat from there temple is 2.5 km. Again option of horse and palkhi/pitthu will be available. 

7.    Horse from Sanchichat or from main entry will leave you al least 1.25 km away from temple. Palkhi will leave you 750m away. From there if weight is not too much, baby tram can be taken for old age people to drop to some more distance. Wheel chair can also be taken from the office where palkhi leaves you but it is very tiresome to move the same as surface is not smooth at all. 

8. Yatra registration counters are everywhere for facility of the visitors like Niharika Bhavan, main entry, near bus stand, etc. You will need Aadhar card for the same. Online can also be done but card collection to be done at some counter after reaching there. They will give you RFID card which shall be returned while coming back. 

9. For helicopter riders, no advance registration is needed. It is available at pick up point. Do not forget to get your VIP pass after getting down from helicopter which will allow you to enter from gate 5 and save your time in queue. 

10. Niharika Bhavan (accommodation provided by Shrine board) is good. Can be used. Many other series hotels also available like Sarovar portico, Marriott, Ramada, ITC, Radisson, etc.

11. Same day return ticket for helicopter is good for only shrine darshan. If you want to visit bhairo baba, better to stay at sanchichat and plan next day return. If you are very energetic and rush is less, you may cover in same day trip as well. For that, book ropeway tickets of Bhairo baba in advance on same website above. If you want to cover ardhkumari darshan as well, plan one way helicopter and horse on the way down. 

12. Your pre-paid sim will not work in J&K. Post paid connection will work. You can take yatri sim at 500 rupee there for communication. Advised to take as you may end up missing each other in rush. 

13. Reach in night to Katra and stay rather staying at Jammu. 

14. Carry shoes, extra pairs of socks, socks warmers if travelling in cold season. Eat breakfast before you start. Be prepared for weather change anytime. Carry candies if sugar patients are travelling. 

15. Old shrine is now open, be prepared for few twists for your body. If you have been operated in legs or hands avoid. 

16. If you have more queries, you may reach me at 99600 99074.

Wish you all the best for your trip. Jai Mata di!! #jaimatadi

The other side of outbreak (Corona and me)!

Living  the paid retirement break!

The outbreak is not an occasion to celebrate but it is beyond our control and we can do a very little about it. So the unconditional acceptance of the current situation is the first step to get out of the worry. The opportunist like me will love to focus more on what's in it for me and how can I capitalize on it. So I am putting my prospective below and hope it helps you all to get out of worry and capitalize what we have actually got into!!

On the verge of this global lock-down, suddenly everyone ended up with a lot of spare time in hand and me being no exception to it. It is just the the start of lock-down here in India, however I am already feeling so fulfilled and thankful to Almighty for being able to use my time the way I want. I completed all pending works from office, cleaned up my home office, arranged my documents and even contributed to household mundane works as well, as all maids are also under lock-down. Still I have got time in hand. This is such a rare and great feeling to cherish.

It has been long since when I last posted. This post I am able to write today is also a gift of the lock-down as I got the required break to ink my pen back in action. Also the topic I am writing is  the cause itself. It helps me not to feel lonely in home as I am interacting with you all through this blog and being able to express myself freely. It feels so enriching to empty out myself  for the cause of betterment of others. I feel this is the time to dwell upon the core interest of oneself and capitalize this time for fulfilling the long awaited desire to be able to act upon. Everyone out here may be one of the drawing artist, singer, dancer, sculptor, writer, composer, musician and what not. Lets meditate deep inside and find out to awake the real self. 

The whole world probably needed a break to recreate itself and it has come out in the form of outbreak! With sudden break on human activities the jungles will now develop back their flora and fauna, animals will get more food, their life cycles will be placed back in position,  pollution will come down, the whole ecosystem will realign, the climatic changes will be reversed to some extent and the earth will become a better place to live! It seems to an action of bounce back to get more durability of the earth. This virus seems to be a mechanism  of nature to regulate immunity levels in humans and probably human will come out of this with better immunity and stronger genes. After all the survival of the fittest it the Nature's rule!! Lets rejoice the journey of pollution to purity.

It is the wonderful gift at our doorstep (actually inside home 😁) which has passively come like cloud with the silver line. Although there is genuine threat to everyone, it is important here to understand what we focus more upon that matters. Are we focusing more upon fear, anxiety, restlessness, uncertainty or we are focusing on what action we can take during the same? While following all the precautions with the best possible way, lets accept the fact that we can do a very little about it!! So when we can not do much, lets do what we can, keeping all these negative things away!! 

Let's spend quality time with family like never before, live every relation once again, explore deep inside each one in the family, lets visit their likes and dislikes, know them freshly, close all misunderstandings if any,  love them from bottom of heart, observe the children closely, become one to play with them, let the romance be in air with spouse, lets observe wrinkles on face of parents, lets call all our friends, reduce the distance virtually (as you observe social distancing😁), pour the self out and feel fresh and rejuvenated. Mother earth is reforming let's tune to the same song!

It is the time to create masterpieces from the pictures on hard drives, making the playlists which resonates with inner self, decorating the house to home, making everything alive with the personal touch, closing the eyes in gratitude, forgiving the past, mediate, exercise of brain and body, cultivate new habits, learning something new, sharpen required skills, align the whole life to the real priorities of self. Redirecting the focus on life than the death can give us the wonderful results and the best thing out of this is at least for now we are getting paid for it !!! 😁😁😁

Happy new year 2014!!!

As such there is nothing like a new year starting on Jan 1 of 2014. All that we mean is our counting has reached 2014 since when we started. Nothing changes overnight and there is nothing which will significantly change with the change in the date very next day. All that it gives is a chance to refresh ourselves mentally and we can restart the things once again which we wanted to do and we left them just like that. On this note, lets say a new year is started... and thus I wish a very happy and successful year to all..

 

Till wishing it is alright but will it happen automatically without we being thoughtful about it? The answer is obvious no. So the idea of new year is to use it's newness to our benefit by reviewing our last year's time-frame for achievements and setbacks both professionally and personally. Once we jot them down, the same list will give us the agenda to work this year. 

Achievements are results of good habits and these habits needs to continue. Setbacks are results of lack of enough efforts and thus they give us areas to work upon. Additionally we need to give a thought to what we want to have this year which we never had. Adding this together we shall derive the agenda for the year. Last step needed is to convert this agenda into small doable actions which will need our commitment to bear fruits in this year. This is how the bar can be raised every year.

Indians have already decided to change for positive and the changes are evident in the just declared election poll results. Delhi is on fast track with AAP. Interesting to see the winds of positive energy. Lets take inspiration from this and start contributing individually to self development by raising the bar which will indeed contribute to great cause of nation. I am on it and lets see how many gets benefited from the post. If you get some inspiration from this post, please do not forget to comment and let me know that I am not alone.

Overcoming the past..

Today as I take a moment to stop and observe my own life which I walked so far, I am filled with satisfaction and believe me it is a great feeling!!! I am very happy with my progress in the life and where I am today, the choices I made and the outcomes of them, the balance I had with my work and life, the report card of my responsibilities and the feeling of self contentment.

I had a few regrets in past and today as I am writing this post, I have overcome all of them and they do not exist. I am totally light and I would prefer to die in such any day where I have this feeling in my heart!!!

On the other way, as our last day is not in our hand in this world, it is great to look forward to it and be prepared. I live life on that term and thus I am content today.

One golden rule: think like today is last day of our life and note what are the important things in life are still left over. What you will note are the things which actually matters and next morning is the best time to start perceiving them. May be you do not have all possible next day, but you will get the direction of your life what to hold on to and what to leave... I feel sad about many lives which are wasted in perceiving what they did not actually need!!!

Missing my angel..

Now I understand what it takes to become father and how much one cares his children being a father...

You come home tired of work and just enter the door and she gives a smile and then makes sound for you to lift her in arms to play with her.. No matter how tired you are you will get refreshed in seconds!!! This miracle I am experiencing these days!

No matter how many times in the night she wakes up and makes you wake as well, I love that sweet disturbance and I love to put a hand on her back and comfort her to sleep again!!!

No matter how much many times she breaks my link of work, I am not tired to start all over again!!!

The home is too silent when she is away. I miss you my angel desperately!!!

See I got time to write about you only in your absence.. come home soon!!!