{"id":8522,"date":"2017-01-08T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T04:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8522"},"modified":"2017-01-08T09:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T04:20:27","slug":"hundreds-tourists-head-patnitop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8522","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of tourists head for Patnitop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Patnitop:\u00a0<\/strong>Hundreds of tourists today thronged Patnitop and Nathatop to enjoy the season\u2019s first snowfall.While Patnitop has so far received half a foot of snowfall in the last 48 hours, at Nathatop it is about one and a half feet. Enthusiastic tourists, especially youth, reached Patnitop to enjoy the snowfall.\u201cOn Friday, we had to return from Udhampur. But today we managed to reach here after the highway was cleared,\u201d said Pankaj Gupta of Jammu who had come with his friends and family. \u201cWe enjoyed a lot. It was a dream come true for us,\u201d he added. Hundreds of tourists from Katra and Jammu also reached Patnitop. Most of them planned to stay here.\u201cWe got married last month, we were waiting for the snowfall. Today we have come here along with other couples and enjoying snowfall. We will stay at Nathatop for two days and are hopeful that the highway will be opened so that we can reach the Kashmir valley soon,\u201d said Vishab Gupta and his wife, who had come from Chandigarh.The owners of hotels, guest houses and lodges at Kud, Patnitop and Batote are very happy as after many months of dry season, they are hopeful of good days ahead. \u201cTourists from Chandigarh, New Delhi and other parts of northern India have already got their bookings confirmed online and \u0007our hotels are almost packed,\u201d said Koushal Sharma, president, Hotel Association, Patnitop.\u201cWe have got confirmed bookings from the Jammu railway station till Patnitop during the winter and are expecting a very heavy rush of tourists,\u201d said Ravi \u0007Kalsi, president, Taxi \u0007Operators\u2019 Union. \u00a0<strong>TNS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patnitop:\u00a0Hundreds of tourists today thronged Patnitop and Nathatop to enjoy the season\u2019s first snowfall.While Patnitop has so far received half a foot of snowfall in the last 48 hours, at Nathatop it is about one and a half feet. Enthusiastic tourists, especially youth, reached Patnitop to enjoy the snowfall.\u201cOn Friday, we had to return from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}