Pampore
Pampore, known as Pampar or Panpar in Kashmiri, is a historical town in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Pampore, known as Pampar or Panpar in Kashmiri, is a historical town in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is situated on the eastern side of the Jhelum River on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway. It was known as Padmapur in antiquity. Pampore is about 11 kilometres away from Srinagar city centre Lal Chowk. It is world wide famous for its saffron, that why it also known as Saffron Town of Kashmir.
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Worth seeing in and around Pampore
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Jwala Ji Temple, Khrew J&K
Jwala Ji Temple or Jwalamukhi Temple is Hindu shrine in the town of Khrew in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The temple is dedicated to the deity Jwala Ji, the Kul Devi of many Kashmiri Hindu families.
6 km · Hindu goddess temple near Srinagar, J&K · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pampore
- Airports
- Srinagar (SXR), 15 km · Skardu (KDU), 157 km · Sialkot (SKT), 173 km
- Stations
- Pampore railway station, 4 km
- Amritsar → Pampore266 km · quickest by air, 4h 28m · ₹4,710–7,210
- Halwara → Pampore372 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · ₹5,330–8,190
- Chandigarh → Pampore405 km · quickest by air, 4h 25m · ₹5,730–8,800
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No local-transport research exists yet for Pampore
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Pampore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Pampore
Pampore is 14 km from Srinagar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.