The number of yatris was huge in the first month, however, the numbers gradually decreased with every passing day
5 lakh yatris paid obeisance at the Amarnath Cave shrine in south Kashmir this year as the 52-day annual yatra concluded on Monday.
3880-metre high cave shrine commenced on June 29 from the twin routes – the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route in Anantnag and the 14-km shorter Baltal route in Ganderbal and concluded on the occasion of ‘Shravan Purnima’ coinciding with ‘Raksha Bandhan’.
