The Valley of Flowers was exposed by an English hiker and botanist known as “Frank S. Smythe”, who by accident exposed the place though mountaineering throughout the mountains. So charmed was he form the place that after a long wait he wrote a book about it, titled, 'The Valley of Flowers'. Smythe's book, thus, introduced to the world the loveliness and attractiveness that put down resting secretly in the huge Himalayas.
The locals, alternatively, always knew about the survival of the place, but since it was so amazingly and outstandingly beautiful, thought that fairies must be alive here, and did not dare gain admittance on it.
Valley of flowers is a National Park, situated in the high elevation of Himalayan valley of the attractive Indian State of Uttarakhand. This exceptional valley is set amidst the higher expanses of Bhyundar Ganga, near a small town of Joshimath in Chamoli district. The region around the valley is named as Garhwal region.
Decorated with mysterious natural attraction and overwhelming landscape the valley is famous for its plentiful varieties of prevalent alpine flowers and lush green meadows. Decorated with the carpets of amazing multi-coloured flowers, the valley mesmerizes each of its visitors. The park is spread above an area of 87.5 sq km that also provide protection to some of the uncommon and scarce wildlife species. The wonderful valley adds quite a few moons to the beauty of Nanda Devi National Park, located nearby. The park is a heaven for hikers and botanists, which is also having its attractive mythical significance.
Valley of Flowers is the most happening trekking target for the adventure devotee. There is a variety of trekking performances one can treat in like short walks to rock mountaineering to climbing and more. This place has got all the ingredients to be called the best mountaineering target of India. The reputation of this sport can be gauged from the fact that a large number of mountaineering tours are being planned and tourists from each and every corners of the globe do explore this place. The most popular trek pathway is the one from Govindghat to Ghangria via Hemkund Sahib where one gets the possibility to discover Joshimath and the entire Flowers Park.
Valley of flowers has some of the most charming flowers, plants and vegetables of the Himalayas with the famous Brahma Kamal, which is also the state flower (Rajya Pushp) of Uttarakhand. Other famed flowers found here are blue poppy and the cobra lily. According to a study there are approximately 520 types of privileged plants and approximately 498 species of blossoming plants found in the valley.
Apart from that, there are many plants of medical value like, the Podophyllum hexandrum, Aconitum violaceum, Picrorhiza kurrooa, Polygonatum multiflorum etc.
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