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by 2Gkashmiri 394 days ago
Its interesting.

I live in "kashmir", India side and the place is on a similar no-go by both UK and US governments travel advisory.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/india

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/...

Us has a level 4 do not travel.

The point is, we are around 10 million souls living in this place and we call it home. It may not be for Americans and British but its our home.

Reading this article, im sure travellers here last month could give similar "harrowing" accounts of escaping from the valley and the stuff they did.

Yeah, terrorism tourism is real and its "extremely cheap" compared to last month. More safer I would assume but yeah.

The air fare has dropped to like 30%, hotels are empty so they will offer you sweet deals.

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Last time I was backpacking in India and wanted to go to Kashmir (2008), violence just flared up badly after long period of peace and was outright told not to head up north from Amritsar. I've read few articles how tourists in Srinagar (our goal) were all gathered by army in barracks and flown away.

Makes sense from Indian army point of view. I wouldn't expect its easy to even get there, especially if westerner, we stick out of crowd properly even when skin tone may be similar, clothing is obviously very different. There is a reason why those prices are so low. Maybe nothing happens, maybe something does. Flying is probably safest, if one ignores the possibility of ground-air or air-air missiles, intentional or not.

When was the last time a commercial airline was attacked in Kashmir?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...

These are the crime stats and even while our stats are skewed by jammu, overall its still a much safer place.

Think of it this way. 26/11 happened in Mumbai. Who would've thought ? That hasnt stopped people from visting Mumbai or rest of mainland India ?

I get it. The perception of threat is worse than an actual threat.

So.... you know if since 2008 as you said, any tourist was caught up in the issue ? I dont remember.

The only reason is tourists are not coming. I am a consultant working with the industry and EVERYONE has cancelled. Hotels have closed operations