 Nehru and Indira Gandhi, accompanied by Sheikh Abdullah, were among those who visited the area in the 1940s, fishing for trout at Naranag, one of the lakes in the mountains above the valley.While describing the Kishenganga Valley (Gurez), Walter R. Lawrence writes in his book "The Valley of Kashmir",
"Perhaps Pahalgam, the village of the shepherds that stands at the head of the Liddar valley with its healthy forest of pines, and Gurez, which lies at a distance of thirty-five miles from Bandipora, the port of the Wular Lake, will before long rival in popularity the other margs.Gurez is a lovely valley five miles in length lying at an elevation of about 8000 feet above the sea.