Garbh Joon cave timings are not a fixed clock. The Ardhkuwari passage runs on free token batches, so here is when it opens, when it pauses and how to plan.
Vaishno Devi crowd timing decoded hour by hour — the two windows with the shortest cave queue, the aarti freezes to avoid, and when to leave Katra base.
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