Hi, Rajesh ji, I visited in 2010. I think no advance permission is required for entry into Valley of Flowers, but one has to come back on the same day.
For Rest Houses, booking has to be done in advance. On 17 April 2012 13:17, Rajesh Sachdev <leopard...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear efI members, > > Kindly suggest if any permission or earlier registration is required t be > done for Valley of Flowers at forest department or GMVN (Garhwal Mandal > Vikas Nigam rest houses)? > > -- > Regards > Rajesh Sachdev > http://project-matheran.webs.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/leopardguy > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1840 members & 1,10,000 messages on 31/3/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
