Mohammad Hanief Bangus Valley is the most pristine offbeat place in Kashmir. Situated towards the Kupwara district of Kashmir, this lush meadow valley is famous for its serene and raw landscape which mostly is dominated by grassy and wavy meadows along the famous river Mawri. This valley is lately becoming a tourist attraction as the place makes you feel in the sheer gorgeous landscape of Kashmir.
In this valley, you are transported into a different world, free from any crowd, any glimpse of modern structures, and a scanty population. This is the least explored region of Kashmir and hence least exploited by the tourist crowd. The meadows here are situated at an altitude of around 10,000ft and are around 128km from Srinagar.
This valley of Kashmir has two meadows one is called Big Bangus and another small Bangus. The meadows of this valley are surrounded by the towering mountains of Chowkibal, Qazinag, and Shamsbery. The entire area falls in the Trans-Himalaya.
Both the valleys have level green meadows surrounded by low-lying mountains covered with dense Coniferous forests (budloo) and a stream flowing through them. The beautiful valley of Kashmir harbors a diversity of medicinal plants that have been used in traditional health care systems for thousands of years. This knowledge, transmitted by oral tradition from generation to generation, has been eroding in recent decades due to rapid cultural change.
An ethno botanical survey was carried out in different forests around the .