Gangotri national park to open for tourists from April 1
Tourists and mountaineers fond of adventure will be able to enter the Gangotri National Park area from April 1 for the 2021 season. Tourists will be allowed to visit the park area only through local registered agencies. The park administration reviewed the arrangements for the Gangotri-Gomukh trek.
The Gangotri National Park has been a tourist attraction for years due to the presence of high Himalayan Gangotri-Kalindi-Badrinath trek and the Nelong Valley along the Indo-China border, as well as dozens of icebergs and the origin of the Ganges, Gomukh, Tapovan, etc.
Every year a large number of domestic and foreign tourists and climbers reach here. The gates of the park were closed to tourists on 30 November last year in winter. Now from April 1, the movement of tourists will start in the park area. Park administration has started preparations for this. On Thursday, the forest department team led by Forest Inspector Rajvir Rawat conducted a field trip from Kankhu Barrier to Bhojbasa and took stock of the park.
GMVN’s tourist house also closed
He said that there is still a lot of snow in the park area. Trek has been damaged in some other places including due to heavy snowfall and landslides in winter. While there are heavy boulder deposits in some places. The Lal Baba Ashram and the GMVN Tourist Accommodation at Bhojbasa are also closed. Tourists who reach here in the month of April will get to see the snow-capped mountains.
Pratap Panwar, forest officer of Gangotri National Park, said that the damaged parts of the Gangotri-Gomukh trek would be repaired. The arrangement of stay in Bhojbasa will be available only after the opening of the Gangotri Dham on May 14. In such a situation, only tourists who go with their arrangements for living and eating etc. will be allowed to go. Till the single window system is operational in the Collectorate campus, permission will be issued to tourists from the park’s office in Kotbangla.
