Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra

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Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra

Nanda Devi Raj Jaat Yatra is a festival that stretches for whole three weeks. It is one such Uttarakhand festival that is globally famous. Innumerable people participate in Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra from the Garhwal-Kumaon region, the rest of the country.

Goddess Nanda Devi is a popular deity at many places of Garhwal & Kumaon region of Uttarakhand. Nanda Devi Raj Jat is organised once in every 12 years in Chamoli after royal priests’ descendents and the Kunwar royal family make elaborate preprations in the village of Nauti and in Kansuwar respectively. It is primarily a religious pilgrimage spanning for 280 kilometer. The trek takes about 20 days to be completed.

This Raj jat yatra originates from the Nauti village 20 km of Karnaprayag tehsil of Indian state of Uttarakhand. The Kunwar of village Kansua inaugurates the ceremony. The legend is this that Nanda Devi, consort of Lord Shiva left her village and went to the nanda devi parbat. Therefore when the yatra starts, heavy rain occurs as if the devi is crying. This yatra covers many villages and in between the Devi meets her sister in the Bhagwati village.




This yatra is very tough on account the landscape it goes through. In between the yatra there comes a Lake Roopkund where lies the hundreds of skeletons. It is said that once the King took some dancers to this sacred place due to which heavy snow fell and people died and the dancers got transformed into stone which can be sen in Patarnachonia. The other myth is this that king Yasodhwal’s wife was pregnant and while she was giving birth to her child, her placenta flowed down to Roopkund and this in turn caused the death of the people on that place. That is why the river Nandakini lost her significance and the Nandprayag is not considered sacred as the other Panch Prayags like Devprayag, Vishnuprayag, Karanprayag and Rudraprayag.

The Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra 2014 will be starting from 17th August 2014 and will be take upto 6 September 2014. The Yatra total Distance will be approx 290 Kms. The 230 Kms Distance will be cover by Foot or by Trek route and the rest 60 Kms will be cover by the Bus Transport. Before the Upcoming Yatra of Nanda Raj Jat Yatra the trip was held in the year 2000. And it is one of the Biggest Trips of Uttarakhand. The Main things of Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra is Mainly Distance Covered by Foots. So we can say that it is very Holy Trip.Many Tourists from various parts of India and Abroad come to join the holy Nanda Devi Raj Jat Yatra.