{"id":8925,"date":"2017-02-24T20:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=8925"},"modified":"2017-02-24T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:45:47","slug":"former-cricketer-jonty-rhodes-urges-people-to-visit-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=8925","title":{"rendered":"Former cricketer Jonty Rhodes urges people to visit Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes, who has been to Kashmir three times, has appeared in a promotional video for Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department, urging people to visit the \u201cincredible\u201d Valley for its \u201camazing\u201d hospitality and tourist places.\u201cThis is my third visit to Kashmir and this is the longest I have been here. I have done heli-skiing in the past and I learnt to snowboard on the hills right behind me,\u201d Rhodes says in the 72-second video shot in famous skiing resort of Gulmarg this winter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Impressed by the local hospitality and the wide range of activities that can be undertaken while in Kashmir, Rhodes is planning to visit the Valley again.\u201cApparently it is an incredible place to be here in summer, very green. Amazing things to do, good activities.\u201cI am not a person who likes to sit very still. So, may be something I got to do in very near future is come back to Kashmir and spend some time in Gulmarg in the summer when I can go mountain biking or fishing,\u201d said Rhodes, who has been associated with IPL franchise Mumbai Indians.\u201cIt has been incredible, the hospitality has been amazing and fortunately so has been the food,\u201d he added.An official of the Tourism Department said Rhodes was recently in Gulmarg as he is a keen Rugby enthusiast.\u201cRhodes had visited Kashmir twice in the past and when we conducted the Snow Rugby Championship in Gulmarg recently, he came down to witness it,\u201d the official said.Asked if the Tourism Department had entered into any kind of agreement with the former cricketer for promoting state tourism, the official said Rhodes was doing it as a \u201cgoodwill gesture\u201d. \u2014 PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes, who has been to Kashmir three times, has appeared in a promotional video for Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department, urging people to visit the \u201cincredible\u201d Valley for its \u201camazing\u201d hospitality and tourist places.\u201cThis is my third visit to Kashmir and this is the longest I have been here. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8925","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\/8925","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=8925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8925\/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=8925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}