Another unsung heaven among the heavens of Kashmir

This is a travel story to one of the most talked and visited place in 2022 by the people of Kashmir and the rest of the world.
            Gurez also spelled Gurais is a valley which is about 123 km from Srinagar. The valley surrounded by beautiful mountains and the tourists can visit the place from May to October. This place has its own charm. But in winters it looks more beautiful when feets of snow covers the valley like a pearly white blanket. But roads are closed due to the frozen snow and the only way to visit Gurez is by a helicopter from the district of Bandipora or Srinagar.
             Me and my 9 friends thought of visiting Gurez and left towards the valley from Srinagar on 19th August obviously 2022. So we packed all our essentials for the few upcoming days and left at 10 in the morning. And finally reached Bandipora at 12 am which is about 86 km from Srinagar. And there we bought a few more essentials and also had tea and some snacks. After staying there for half and hour we again continued our journey. Then after a few army check posts where we had to register our vehicles and our identity we travelled further and reached the Razdan top (pass) considered as the most dangerous for fast icy winds and repeated snow accumulation. And it is about 12000 feet above the sea level. And everything around from there looks so beautiful and the road is built with tiles so that it can withstand the snow and rain which might wash it away and thus it remains intact for a longer period of time. After ending this road and descending from the mountain there we experienced a pleasent wind and weather like we were in a different country. And finally reached Dawar a village in Gurez and set our camps there near the Kishanganga river and cooked some food, barbiques and make some tea. After that we got some dry wood around to lit the camp fire to stay away from bears and other wild animals as we were already aware about that. Its was only at 8 pm the sky was full of stars and everyone among us was lost in stargazing and constellations were visible too. Soon after some more minutes we heard the dogs of the village barking who were near the forest and when we pointed out torches towards the mountain with the dense forests we saw a brown bear and her cub coming towards the river flowing next to us to have some water and catching some fishes to eat as they did no harm to us we still were terrified while sleeping in the night although we didn't actually sleep.