Trek Itinerary - J&K Lakes Trek

Duration: 20 Days

Difficulty: Moderate

Highest Altitude: 4210 m

Best Season: July to September

(Image courtsey BMC Adventures)

Brief Information: This Customised Trek is a combination of the Kashmir Great Lake trek and the Tarsar-Marsar Lake Trek. Kashmir is a wonderful place and if you are on a himalayan trek you are bound to taste the natural beauty and adventure. The trek to the Kashmir Great Lakes Trek offers a lifetime experience of vintage memories that are so wonderfully tiring. The thundering silence of the Kashmir lakes and its virgin beauty is spell bound. Apart from the lakes, even the barren milky snow clad mountains stand out in might and proud. Grasslands like velvet, walking through hovering pine trees that are beautiful and fragrant, little thatched roofed hamlets peopled by beautiful humans, perfect stillness of azure waters, and camping by the glacial lakes which give the trek its name.

Brief Itinerary:

DAY	STARTING POINT	ENDING POINT	ALTITUDE (meters)	TREK/DRIVE DURATION (hours)	TREK/DRIVE DISTANCE (Km)
1	Pahalgam	Aru	2420	1*	13
2	Aru	Lidderwat	3050	4	11
3	Lidderwat	Satlanjan	3420	3	7
4	Satlanjan	Kolahol Base Camp	4140	9	4
	Kolahol Base Camp	Lidderwat	3050		11
5	Lidderwat	Sikewas	3450	4	8
6	Sikewas	Tarsar Lake	3899	5	4
7	Tarsar Lake	Sundarsar	3962	5	5
8	Sundarsar	Marsar Lake	4015	6	8
9	Marsar Lake	Sundarsar	3962	6	8
10	Sundarsar	Sikewas	3450	6	9
11	Sikewas	Sonmus	3350	5	7
12	Sonmus	Sonamarg	2720	2*	36
13	Rest at Sonmarg
14
15	Sonamarg	Nichinai	3620	5	13
16	Nichinai	Krishansar & Vishansar lake	3680	5	15
17	Krishansar & Vishansar lake	Gadsar Lake	3280	5	16
18	Gadsar Lake	Satsar	4210	8	19
19	Satsar	Gangabal Lake	3570	7	19
20	Gangabal Lake	Naranag	2270	5	15
	Naranag	Srinagar	1585	2*	45

*Drive duration on a shared cab