There is an entrance fee of Rs. 100 for Betaab Valley. This amount is different than what you will pay for the parking, which I think was Rs. 50 for a car and Rs. 30 for two-wheelers.
Betaab valley tickets price baffled me a bit. I mean, you do not expect to buy a ticket to see a mountain, a river or a valley. But that is what exactly happened and by now, I was quite sure that the place was over-rated and just hyped because of the movie. Much like the rest of Pahalgam, I knew it was not going to be anything spectacular.
Nonetheless, we bought the ticket and started walking on the path into the valley. Contrary to our hopes, what we reached and entered was actually a park. It must have been a meadow or a valley once upon a time but after the place started to attract tourists, authorities fenced it and developed it into a park.
There were families picnicking, kids playing around, stalls selling tea and coffee. Do not get me wrong. It was still all beautiful, not just what I was expecting.
The place still had a charm of its own. It was surrounded by mountains, a dense forest, and the curves of the beautiful Lidder River were adding to the overall beauty and the charm.
It was mid-day and the sun was painfully harsh. Even the photos I clicked at that time did not turn out to be that great because of the sun. The pictures that I am sharing here actually do not do justice to the place.
More people followed us, trying to sell items like shawls, saffron, and whatnot. There were two things I noticed at that time.
The first was that about 90% of the tourists in Betaab Valley at that time were the local Kashmiris. Only a handful of people were non-Kashmiris. The second thing was that the sellers were specifically targeting the non-Kashmiri people.










Betaab valley tickets price baffled me a bit. I mean, you do not expect to buy a ticket to see a mountain, a river or a valley. But that is what exactly happened and by now, I was quite sure that the place was over-rated and just hyped because of the movie. Much like the rest of Pahalgam, I knew it was not going to be anything spectacular.
Nonetheless, we bought the ticket and started walking on the path into the valley. Contrary to our hopes, what we reached and entered was actually a park. It must have been a meadow or a valley once upon a time but after the place started to attract tourists, authorities fenced it and developed it into a park.
There were families picnicking, kids playing around, stalls selling tea and coffee. Do not get me wrong. It was still all beautiful, not just what I was expecting.
The place still had a charm of its own. It was surrounded by mountains, a dense forest, and the curves of the beautiful Lidder River were adding to the overall beauty and the charm.
It was mid-day and the sun was painfully harsh. Even the photos I clicked at that time did not turn out to be that great because of the sun. The pictures that I am sharing here actually do not do justice to the place.
More people followed us, trying to sell items like shawls, saffron, and whatnot. There were two things I noticed at that time.
The first was that about 90% of the tourists in Betaab Valley at that time were the local Kashmiris. Only a handful of people were non-Kashmiris. The second thing was that the sellers were specifically targeting the non-Kashmiri people.









