Pahalgam is one of the popular tourist place in Kashmir in Anantanag district in India. Pahalgam is stands on the bank of Lidder River an altitude of near about 2200m about 5 km away from Baisaran valley of Kashmir. The tourist place is in the north east of district Anantnag among high flown hills covered with evergreen forest in kashmir. Its cool invigorating  and pleasant climate, Scenic beauty and of evergreen forest , the melodious flow of lidder River attract tourist of Indian and also abroad the world.

Pahalgam Tourist spot
Pahalgam Tourist spot

Terror attracts Tourist in Pahalgam in 22 April 2025

One of the most target attracts on Hindu tourist, terror attacks tourist in pahalgam, on 22-04-2025, 26 tourist were died including 1 foreign tourist ie Nepal and injured many others in Kashmir. The resistance Front claimed responsibility of the terror attack. On Tuesday about time 2.45pm to 3 pm, large number of tourist gathered the spot suddenly a group of 6 terrorist firstly find out Hindu tourist and than attacks innocent the male tourist and opened fire, eyewitness at the spot said the terrorist wear dressed military uniform. One of the most pathetic scenery is viral on social media on 22 April 2025 and is the heart touching viral image after Terror attacks in Pahalgam.

Viral photograph on tourist attack in Kashmir

Tourist attack in Kashmir
Tourist attack in Kashmir

In Pahalgam terror attack, A navy officer name LT. Vinay Narwal was killed by Terroristo on that day and mentioned that only 7 days before, Vinay Narwal was newly married with Himanshi Narwal  . Another tourist died on that attack a businessmen name Dinesh Mirania lives at Roypur in Chattishgarh. Total of 26 tourist were died on Pagalgam tourist spot that day, 25 tourist belongs to Hindu community and one was Muslim community name Syed Adil Hussain Shah lives in near by area in Kashmir.

Name of the Tourist died in Kashmir terror attack 2025

Name of Tourist

State in India

Bitan Adhikari

West Bengal

Manish Ranjan

West Bengal

Sameer Guha

West Bengal

Hemant Suhas Joshi

Maharashtra

Atul Shrikant Mone

Maharashtra

Sanjay Lakshman lele

Maharashtra

Dilip Disle

Maharshtra

Santosh Jagdale

Maharashtra

Kaustubh Ganbote

Maharashtra

Sushil Nathaniel

Madhya pradesh

Shubham Dwivedi

Uttar Pradesh

Js Chandramouli

Andra Pradesh

Tage Hailyang

Arunachal Pradesh

Shailesh Kalathiya

Gujrat

Sumit Parmar

Gujrat

Yatish Parmar

Gujrat

Vinay Narwal

Haryana

Neeraj Udhwani

Rajasthan

Prasant Kumar Satpathy

Odisha

N Ramachandran

Karala

Dinesh Agarwal

Chhattisgarh

Somsetti Madhusudan Rao

Karnataka

Bharat Bhushan

Karnataka

Manjunath Rao

Karnataka

Syed Adil Hussain Shah

Jammu and Kashmir

Sudip Neupane

Nepal

Where is Pahalgam, popular tourist place in Baisaran valley in Kashmir ?

Pahalgam is a popular tourist spot in Baisaran valley located at about 96km from Srinagar town. The tourist place is most popular hill surrounded by dense pine forest on all sides, along with lidder river. The Baisaran valley is also known as Valley of Shepherds and is home to the famous hindu shrine, Amarnath cave temple. The Baisaran valley tourist spot is known as “mini Switzerland” here long green Pine forest attracts many people located at only 5 km from Pahalgam. Most tourist attraction for natural scenic, long and dense pine forest covered by all sides in summer and in winter the valley is covered with snow. Pahalgam, Baisaran valley and nearby hilly area is the Best tourist attraction in Kashmir in India |

How to reach Pahalgam in Kashmir?

Travel by Air: If you want to reach pahalgam or Baisaran valley, Srinagar International Airport is the nearest airport to reach Pahalgam tourist spot which is located 96km from Srinagar Airport. From Airport you can hire Taxi or cab to reach Palahgam. The journey takes around 3 hours.

Travel by Train: If you want to travel by train, Udhampur railway station is the nearest railway station and is near about 217km away from Pahalgam tourist spot. Another nearby railway station is Jammu Tawi station and is near about 285 km from the tourist spot, you can get a taxi or private car to reach Pahalgam.

Travel by Bus: Srinagar and Jammu are linked with other state of Iindia by road. From Srinagar connected with Pahalgam by state road, transport buses like deluxe bus, Ac and non ac bus service are available to reach Pahalgam or Baisaran valley Best tourist place in Kashmir in India . There are regular buses available from Srinagar, Jammu and Anantanag to Pahalgam or Baisaran Valley.