KAILASH KUND PILGRIMAGE

Indian Hindu pilgrims are on their way to the Kailash kund or Kailash Lake near Ram Tung, some 215 km from north Indian city of Jammu. Every year, the 22-km Kailash pilgrimage begins from a temple in Bhaderwah town in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir, which is 3,000 years old.

The Kailash pilgrimage is scheduled in August every year when the weather is rough, rains make the track slippery, but despite that thousands of people throng the shrine in the upper Himalayas in Bhaderwah area of Jammu region.

Devotes walk on foot to reach to the Kailash kund (Kailash Lake), which is at a height of 14,500 feet in the Mid-Himalayan region. Hindus revere Kailash pilgrimage for the fact that according to Hindu scriptures, the temple of Vashukhi Nag, a cobra, which is believed, to be attached with the neck of lord Shiva is situated at Kailash kund (Kailash Lake).