Amarnath Yatra 2014 will begin from 25th June and will conclude on Raksha Bandhan which falls on 13th of August. Amarnath Yatra is most famous religious Yatra in India ,devoted to the Lord Shiva or Mahadev situated at the height of 4000 meters on the Amar Nath Mountain in state Jammu and Kashmir. The Yatra of Amarnath is a well known pilgrimage site for Hindus from the old days which is around 5000 years old. About 400,000 devotees make their Yatra to Amarnath cave each year during the festival of Shravan Mela in the month of June to August.There are lots of mythological stories about Amarnath Yatra. According to one of the mythological saying of Amarnath, it is here in the cave of Amarnath Lord Shiva revealing the secrets of immortality to his wife Parvati and so that cave was named Amreshwar and has become the a sanctuary of Hindus. Amarnath Yatra pulled the tourists mainly for the Darshan of ice Shiva Linga along with two other ice formations representing Shri Ganesh and Mata Parvati.
