| Panchtarni | |
| Other Name: | Panchtarni camp Panchtarni river Panchtarni valley |
| Settlement Type: | River valley and hill camp |
| Pushpin Map: | India Jammu and Kashmir#India |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Coordinates: | 34.1893°N 75.4982°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jammu and Kashmir |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation M: | 3505 |
| Elevation Ft: | 11500 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Urdu |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Local |
| Demographics1 Info2: | Kashmiri |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 192126 |
Panchtarni is a locality in Anantnag district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a popular pilgrimage and tourist destination on the way to Amarnath Temple near the Amarnath Glacier in Himalayas. It is located from Pahalgam base camp and ahead of last halt camp of Sheshnag Lake in the north. It is a meadowland on the banks of eponymous Panchtarni River where five glacier-fed tributary streams meet in eponymous Panchtarni Valley surrounded by snow-capped mountains at an altitude of .[1] [2] [3] [4] It is also the final helicopter drop off for the Amarnath yatra pilgrims, who have to trek the rest of the journey either on foot or by mule from this camp.[5]
It has subtropical highland climate with the winters being long and cold winter while the summers are short and mild.
See main article: Amarnath Temple. Panchtarni, a rest camp for the Amarnath yatra, is located between the base camp at Pahalgam and the last rest camp at Sheshnag Lake before the final Amarnath cave shrine. The July-August popular annual Hindu pilgrimage, undertaken by up to 600,000 or more pilgrims to the -high glacial Amarnath cave shrine of iced stalagmite Shiv linga at in the Himalayas, is called Amarnath Yatra.[6] [7] [8] [9] It begins with a mountainous trek from the Nunwan and Chandanwari base camps at Pahalgam and reaches cave-shine after night halts at Sheshnag Lake and Panchtarni camps.[10]