Devigol Festival

The Directorate of Tourism, Jammu in collaboration with District Administration Kishtwar, Kishtwar Tourism development Authority, JKAACL, Indian Army and All Sports Association Bunjwah is organizing Devigol Festival on 10th September, 2023 at Devigol, Bunjwah, District Kishtwar. Located at a distance of about 2 Kms from Patnazi, “Devigol temple” is situated on a plain spot at the foothill of a mountain range. This spacious tract of land covered with deodar, conifer and Oak trees commands an astonishing view of “Budhar habitation” down below on an undulating place of land on the opposite side of a stream and highest mountain ranges on all sides. Devigol has a camping ground where the visitors and pilgrims likes to spend their time peacefully at this solitude place far from the madding crowd of villages, towns and cities. Devigol Meadows offers hypnotic experience to the visitors bringing the visitors closer to the nature and its erse blessings. People from all regions visit this place to invoke blessings of Gola Mata, which is a small Devi Ji Temple located on one side of the ground along with a spring of fresh drinking water at nearby, which has a religious importance and is also a perfect health resort for visitors, trekkers, Pilgrims and ailing people of the society who come to this place for paying obeisance to the Gola Mata to regain their health. The region is under active consideration by Tourism Department, Jammu from pilgrimage tourism point of view as it has a huge potential to increase the tourist footfall and generation of local employment to uplift socio economy of the region.