Duration ∶ 5 hours | Distance ∶ 6 km round trip | Difficulty ∶ Easy-Moderate
₹****** + GST
Min. 2 | Max 6 Guests
Call: 0091 194 2310055
Description
Set off at first light with our naturalist-guide, savour a Kashmiri breakfast on the trail, and track Dachigam’s “Big Three” — the Hangul deer, Himalayan black bear and the elusive leopard.
We meet at 05:00 hrs at the lower‐Dachigam park gate, where your naturalist briefs the small group (max 6 guests) on bear-safe walking, conservation etiquette and the day’s wildlife movements.
As dawn filters through deodar and wild cherry, we follow a centuries-old shepherd’s path beside the crystal Dagwan stream. Fresh spoor and morning calls guide our pace while we scan for the russet‐antlered Hangul grazing the alpine glades, or the tell-tale scratch marks that betray a leopard’s night patrol.
Mid-trail your guide unveils a “walking mezze” of local flavours: steaming noon-chai, girda bread, dried apricots and smoked walnut cheese — fuel to keep both spirits and binoculars high.
Every step funds community anti-poaching patrols that protect the last viable Hangul population on earth. Your guide shares real-time data from camera traps and explains how guest fees underwrite habitat restoration and fringe-village livelihoods.
At the ridge lookout, we settle behind natural blinds for twenty reflective minutes. With luck, a Himalayan black bear ambles to the watercourse below or a leopard melts through the birch shadows — sightings never guaranteed, always electrifying.
By 10:00 hrs we circle back, leaving only bootprints and carrying field memories few travellers ever earn from a half-day in Dachigam’s raw dawn.
Park permits, naturalist guide, trail breakfast, binoculars, conservation contribution.
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