TRAVEL SPOTS INDIA: Kargil War Memorial

Kargil War

The Kargil War also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that look place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Long of

Control (LOC). The conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay, which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector.

Kargil War Heroes

Kargil War winning celebration of Indian Army

Kargil War Date : May - July 1999

Location : Kargil district, Kashmir

Result of the War : Pakistani military retreat; India regains control of occupied territory.

For more information about the war go to : wiki/Kargil_War

Kargil War Memorial

Kargil war memorial, built by the Indian army following the war with neighboring Pakistan in the late nineties is frequented by travelers plying the highway connecting Srinagar to Leh. The memorial houses some of the major sequence of events that happened during the course of the war along with details of the Indian army

personnel, who sacrificed their lives in the process of recapturing some of the peaks occupied by the army

of Pakistan; like the Tiger Hill and Tololong.

The memorial has a memento shop, selling hats, T-shirts, coffee mugs etc. But the main attraction of the whole memorial is the Sandstone wall, in the open, which has the names of all the Indian army personnel, who laid their lives during the Kargil war. Visitors to memorial can also see from there, some of the peaks that the Indian army captrued back from Pakistan.

For more information about the Kargil war memorials go to : /kargil-war-memorial