How Difficult is Valley of Flowers Trek ? It’s a very common question raised by most of the visitors as to how difficult is valley of flowers Trek? Valley of flowers offers the viewers with the largest bundle of flowers covering around 300 species.

Complete trek to valley of flowers undertaken by most visitors is divided into three stages. It’s not that the trek is difficult to undertake. Rather, with proper guidance and safety parameters, one can actually enjoy the trek without even bothering about the difficulty levels.

How Difficult is Valley of Flowers Trek

Trek From Govindghat to Ghangaria:

Govindghat is known to be the last motor-able point to the valley of flowers. Ghangaria is located at a distance of 13 km from Govindghat. It is situated at 5500 feet above sea level and from here; Ghangaria is located at 10200 feet. Makes this trek in moderate trek category. It implies that you need to trek a distance of approximate 13 KM to reach Ghangaria. But Now you can reach Phulna village by Local taxi. That is 3 KM from Govindghat. In short, a total of 10 km has to be covered by trek to reach to Ghangaria. The trek can easily be covered with the help of palanquins, ponies or using helicopter.

In case, you don’t want to trek yourself, you can hire ponies or porters to entail you with an enjoyable trekking experience. Helicopter service can also be enlisted but that comes with condition of owing a pleasant and safe weather. During peak times, most of the weather conditions are adverse the expectations, thus, helicopter option can go in vain.

Trek From Ghangaria to Valley of Flowers:

The trek to Valley of Flowers from Ghangaria is not so steep by the time you reach at the entry gate of the valley of flowers. One can easily reach the official starting point of the valley which is around 3.5 km from Ghangaria by carrying out a mix of minor steep and flatter journey. Inside the valley, ponies are not allowed. Only porters and palanquins can be hired for trekking. Else, you can trek yourself by enjoying the natural beauty of the valley, if you can do so. Once you are inside the valley, you will feel overwhelmed by the captivating beauty of the place that you can’t even imagine about any sort of difficulty you are facing.

Enjoying the blissful beauty of the valley can easily be done by following the guides made available for you by your valley of flowers tour package. You can collect the pictures and pack the bundle of memories without even stretching yourself much.