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| Scenic and daring |
You won’t get tired
of clicking pictures throughout this picturesque and historic route. Here are
some more from my camera. It was exactly one month back that I ventured this
route. Today, on Christmas eve, the news is that some 30 km stretch of the road
is under snow. The snow fall occurred 21-22 December and the Peer-ki-Gali is
covered with four feet of snow.
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| A photographer's challenge ; the Sun overhead |
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| The Aliabad Moghul sarai - A close up |
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The Aharbal waterfall
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The Moghul road story is incomplete without a mention of the Moghul
sarai (inn) at Chingus village situated 125 km from Jammu on the Jammu – Poonch
state highway. The Moghul sarais (inns) were the resting / camping places where
the royal Moghul entourage took halt during their movement to and from Kashmir.
Chingus is a Persian word which means ‘intestine’. The place is historic
because Empror Jehangir’s, intestines are buried here. They say when he died
here while coming from Kashmir, his intestines and some other internal body
organs were removed and his body taken to Delhi on the back of an elephant
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| The intestines buried here |
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| The Chingus Inn |
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