Jai Mata Di!

If just by Reading or Listening these words, Maa Vaishno Devi comes to your mind. Then you should be proud that you are a true devotee of Maa Vaishno Devi. And you should be Happy that Maa Vaishno Devi will always have her hand on your head, you will be out of every trouble you face.

Maa Vaishno Devi's darshan can be done through a visit to pilgrimage situated near a small town named Katra. Katra is 40 Kilometers from Jammu, the winter Capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

This blog has been designed to guide the devotees of Maa Vaishno Devi. It can be really helpful to you if you are planning to visit Maa vaishno devi for a Darshan. If you have visited the spot many times, your guidance and advice can really be helpful to people who have not visited Maa ka Darbar yet.

Below is the detail guide provided for your trip to Maa Vaishno Devi.

From whichever corner of India you come, you first have to reach Jammu. Jammu is connected to other parts of India through Railways, Road Transport and Air. From Jammu you can hire a Taxi to Katra or you can travel by the busses that move toward Katra at Regular Intervals. These busses are really a cheap source to reach Katra. If you arrive late in Jammu and donot find any source to move to Katra, you may reant a room in some Hotel in Jammu. you can find a large number of hotels in Jammu itself.

Once you reach Katra, you can find a lots and lots of Hotels as well as community halls to get yourself fresh for further travelling. Here you can also find Niharika complex, a complex run by Maa Vaishno Devi shrine Board. This complex has all the things required to satisfy needs of the travellers, right from Dormitories to food junctions.

Once you get yourself fresh and get read for further journey, you have to get a yatra slip from a counter near Bus Stand. This yatra slip helps shrine board in keeping the record of people that move in for pilgrimage. This yatra slip also entitles you an insurance of Rs.100000 in case of some mishappening. You have to produce this slip to enter through Baan Ganga checkpost. So do get this slip to avoid return from a point 1 Km ahead.

So, After getting the yatra slip your next step is to move toward the real pilgrimage. Your pilgrimage starts from the point known as Baan Ganga. You can move to this point either by foot or you can hire an auto rickshaw. Baan Ganga is a sacred water body, it is said that Maa Vaishno devi brought out water from rocks in order to quench thirst of Veer HanuMaan who was accompanying Maa Vaishno Devi. It is some times also reffered to as Baal Ganga, as per another story Maa Vaishno Devi washed her hair here.

From Baan ganga starts a hard to climb but greately exciting trip to Maa Vaishno Devi's darbar mostly known as Bhawan. The journey is tough but with the blessings of Maa Vaishno Devi it becomes really easy as there are lots and lots of stalls that provide things for refreshment. Many big brands such as Nescafe, cafe coffee day and Barista have also come up.

Not every one can climb and travel 12 kms on foot, but to their convenience there are many mules and horses to serve them and those who are ill or cannot even travel by horse there are palkis. Whole of the system is administered by Maa Vaishno Devi Shrine Board and one must say that the administration is world class.




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