Aru Valley in Pahalgam, Kashmir

Soak into the picturesque beauty of Aru Valley

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Best time to visit
Mar - Oct
Ideal Duration
6-7 Days
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Starting from
Rs. 5,599

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  • Scenic views
  • Hill Station
  • Nature

About Aru Valley in Pahalgam

One can take a resort here and can spend some tranquil time with the family or friends. It is a perfect place to sip a cup of tea or coffee while admiring the scenic views outside. It offers a perfect relaxed vacation and is loved by people who love nature and the serene environment. A visit to Aru Valley can be enjoyed at any time of the year, be it summer, winter or monsoon. During the winter season, Aru Valley looks enchanting and scenic when it is covered with a thick sheet of snow. Aru Valley in Pahalgam offers horse riding, which is the best activity here. Just op on the back of the horse and go on an excursion to various hidden sub-valleys and let nature completely soak you in.

Aru Valley will surely help you free your mind from worries and will give you solitude and purpose in life by its enthralling beauty. If you are an adventure freak and loves trekking, then you are at the right place as it is the starting point of various treks like Kolahoi Glacier, Lidderwat trek, and Tarsar Lake trek. Trekking at Aru Valley is a fun way to explore the beautiful hill station and will make you awestruck by the enchanting trails and surrounding landscapes.

Trekking at Aru Valley

One can take numerous treks to Aru Valley and one of the most famous ones is Green Top Trek, which takes you through crazy views of gorgeous landscapes, snow-capped peaks, and beautiful rivers. The length of the trek is around 7 kilometers and takes around 3 hours to climb to the top. The trek takes to an altitude of 3500 meters. The trek takes you through most scenic places. 

Activities At Aru Valley

Skiing

Heli-skiing

Trekking

Hiking

Horse Riding

Photography

Sightseeing 

Food At Aru Valley

The resorts and hotels in Aru Valley in Pahalgam serve popular Indian and Chinese food. If you want to eat the local food, try Rogan Josh, Modur Pulao, Matschgand, Yoghurt Lamb Curry, Dum Aloo, Kashmiri Muji Gaad, Aab Gosht, Goshtaba, and Lyodur Tschaman. You will get a wide variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food. 

Attractions Near Aru Valley

Betaab Valley: One of the best places to visit near Aru Valley in Pahalgam is Betaab Valley. The place is surrounded by breathtaking views, circled by stunning mountains dotted with pine and deodar trees. Betaab Valley is located 15 kilometers away from the main center of Pahalgam. 

Lidder River

Another famous place to look forward in Pahalgam is the Lidder River. The gorgeous river originates from Kolahoi Glacier. The river flows from through the popular tourist spots. The area near the river has remarkable views.

Mamleshwar Temple

Explore Mamleshwar Temple, which is located about a kilometer away from the main city of Pahalgam. The temple is devoted to Lord Shiva, established by King Jayasima. It is one of the famous pilgrimage spots in that region which draws many tourists. 

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Vks's 6 days trip to Pahalgam

Had a great experience with Drip in Kashmir Gandola ride was must do in Kashmir

Vks Ahuja Ujjain

Lokeshdevghare's 5 days trip to Pahalgam

Firstly, the itinerary provided was well-planned and covered some of the most stunning destinations in the region, including Srinagar, Gulmarg, Pahalgam. The transportation arrangements were comfortable, and the vehicle was clean and well-maintained. Our car Driver was knowledgeable, friendly, and made the experience even more enjoyable by sharing interesting insights about the local culture and history. The accommodations were generally good, though a few could benefit from better maintenance. For instance for Pahalgam stay. However, the locations of the hotels were excellent, offering beautiful views of the surrounding landscapes. The food provided during the trip was delicious, and it was a great introduction to Kashmiri cuisine. However, I would suggest offering more variety, especially for travelers with dietary restrictions. Overall, it was a memorable experience, and I appreciate the effort your company put into organizing the trip. I look forward to traveling with you again and hope the points mentioned will help enhance future tours. Thank you for making this trip special!

Lokeshdevghare Bengaluru

Arnav's 6 days trip to Pahalgam

Kashmir is full of scams. Be it pony ride, or shikara or even some union cabs. Complementary one hour Shikara ride is just an eye catcher, when you go to the ghats which ofcourse your travel agent will decide for, you get to near that you can only take a good peaceful ride only if you are ready to pay a minimum of 2k. Else you can only go max of a 100m which will hardly take 20mins. The rest 40 mins you will be sitting still and get pestered by hawkers selling Kahwa or sometimes by photographers. Pony ride at Pahalgam is the biggest scam. While your cab driver will be assisting you to negotiate with the pony owners he actually is trying to get cut. Same with cabs at Sonmarg. Now let's come to the good part Hotels Dewan Vintage gulmarg Of robusta retreat Were seriously good With good service and rooms as per the prices respectively. While Eden at Pahalgam had a great room but unfortunately pathetic service. Buffet dinner and breakfast being a disaster where you have to wait to even get plates or bowls. Then for every dish you need to ask to refill them. Breakfast was the worst where we needed to literally wait for the paratha and omelette because all the items were over and paratha was the only item we got. I would like to say that our driver was knowledgeable and was helpful. The vehicle provided was good.

Arnav Biswas

Vrfshah's 6 days trip to Pahalgam

Hotels provided by agent was genuine enough and was given good amount of choices to choose from. Though could have been better always specially the one in Srinagar where we spent 03 nights. Can provided was in perfect new shape only issue with cab was driver driving way too slow and was inexperienced not related to driving but related to points, places to roam at. Driver was not aware about proper points detailing and was lacking bit of experience in terms of giving accurate info and details to passengers travelling, these caused us to pay at places where we actually did not need to pay. Agency has vast experience of handling customers no doubts in that part but there is definite scope of improvement at parts of arranging better transportations. 1. Katra Vaisnodevi 2. Pahalgam stay at hotel (Best of all places we stayed) 3. Srinagar Shikara Ride 4. Srinagar Local Sight seeing (Lalchowk and shopping)

Vrfshah Mumbai

Jayesh's 6 days trip to Pahalgam

Overall experience great and specialy travel agent quick response and all arrangements of all things Gulmarg stay

Jayesh Kambliya New delhi

Siddharth's 7 days trip to Pahalgam

It has been my second trip with Travel Triangle. Same wonderful experience with TT. Excellent service and issue resolution. I have already referred TT to many of my friends. Hope you maintain the same service quality and standards.

Siddharth M Delhi

Amit's 7 days trip to Pahalgam

Nice and memorable experience but driver always recommend his recommendation own discount scammer place visit and buy Snowflake and hospitality of kasmir mind-blowing

Amit Khalani Ahmedabad

Suraj's 5 days trip to Pahalgam

Hotels provided in Pahalgam and gulmarg were good but in srinagar, The hotel Dar rehman was below par. Rooms were small, not cleaned, in one room there was no hot water and in other room every outlet was having boiled water even in jet spray. Extra beddings were not comfortable at all. We asked them to replace the extra bedding but they did not replace it and said that's all they have got. Blankets were not clean and after repeated requests to travel agency they did not changed the room or hotel. Travel agency were also not responding on times. And in the end when we asked them to drop at pathankot in place of Jammu, they asked for rupees 10000 for just 100 km. So overall Kashmir is very beautiful place but our experience with Travel agency and hotels were mixed. Won't recommend the agency to others they even charged extra for our child even after mentioning in the itenary and denied accepting that the child was included at all.

Suraj Goyal Jodhpur

Rikshita's 8 days trip to Pahalgam

We an amazing trip, all the places were planned very well had a nice driver very friendly his name was sohail. I was not happy on the halfboard dinners as everywhere we got chicken and rice all 7 days no other choice if nonveg. Othwse we had an excellent experience and hv also shared contacts to few friends who hv already asked about the planners. Thank you so much. Gulmarg welcoming us with snowfall

Rikshita Kochi

Sraoabhilash's 5 days trip to Pahalgam

The cab driver and travel agent were amazing people

Sraoabhilash Bengaluru

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Trekking, camping and horse riding are best enjoyed at Aru Valley. During the winter months, heli-skiing and skiing can be enjoyed.

Aru Valley is the starting point of a number of trekking routes like Katrinag Valley trek, Tarsar Lake trek, Lidderwat trek, and Kolahoi glacier trek.

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