HPI
KAUAI, U.S.A., May 26, 2003: Sadhvi Bhagwati, from Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, has written with additional information regarding yesterday’s story on the cancellation of this year’s Mansarovar Yatra: “Although the Indian Government has indefinitely postponed their yatra due to China closing the land route over Lipulekh Pass, regular yatras to Mansarovar and Mt. Kailash will begin again at the end of June for the Lipulekh Pass and on July 1 for the by-air-through-Lhasa route. China Air (or Air China), who fly from Kathmandu to Lhasa, have given the official and formal information last week that as of July 1 they will begin flying that route. They have started taking reservations again. I have also heard from agents in Kathmandu that the overland route from Kathmandu will begin in the 3rd week of June. It is only the Indian government yatra which has been indefinitely postponed. All of the agents in Kathmandu are taking reservations for July onward. I know this as we were planning to go on yatra from 4 June, but it was postponed until 2 July. We now have received 100% confirmation from the airlines and agents that the yatra will, in fact, be on in July.”