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Patnitop or Patni Top is a hill top tourist location in Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir India on the National Highway 1A on the way fromUdhampur to Srinagar 112 km from Jammu. Situated on a plateau in the Shiwalik belt of the Himalayas Patnitop sits at an altitude of 2024 metres. The river Chenab flows in close proximity to this location. Origin of the name Patnitop is a distortion of the original name of Patan Da Talab meaning "Pond of the Princess". In olden times a pond existed in the meadows and the kings princess often used to have her bath there. Part of the pond still exists near the youth hostel. It may be that the British had difficulties recording an English spelling of an Indian name correctly in their revenue records. Over the years the name changed from "Patan Da Talab" to Patnitop. t is in the Lower Himalayan Range close to the Pir Panjal range 35 kilometers from Udhampur and 112 km from Jammu. This famous hill resort is perched on a beautiful plateau at an altitude of 2024 metres across which the Jammu-Srinagar Highway passes.
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