Kashmir - The paradise on Earth

KASHMIR - the land of charming gardens and glowing mountains and visit the glistening lakes and appealing water bodies. Travel to Kashmir, India and dwell in the swaying house boats with splendid interiors and lavish Kashmiri Cuisine, rare to experience elsewhere. Take a holy dip into the holy lakes, and make your tour to Kashmir truly refreshing. Visit the most bewildering sights of Kashmir, India surrounded by majestic mountains wearing a coat of snow with conifers embellishing them all through the treks and routes.

 

DAL LAKE / SHIKARA RIDE

Base for seeing Srinagar and on the banks are houseboats, unique to entire world. Shikaras are there to take you around.

 

Shikara ride is a one day tour around the Dal lake visiting floating gardens, char-chinar island, swimming boats etc. You can also do water skiing and board skiing.

 


 

MUGHAL GARDENS

There are as many as 52 very beautiful and scenic Mughal Gardens in Kashmir but the famous among them are Nishat Gardens, Shalimar Gardens and Cheshma-Shahi Gardens.

 

 


 

PAHALGAM

Pahalgam - the valley of Shepherds, is at an altitude of 2400 mtrs from the sea level. On the way at Awantipur. There are two ruined Hindu temples dating from the 9th century, the largest Awanti swarmi temple is dedicated to Vishnu and it shows an apperance of Greek architecture. Do not forget to visit temple at Mattan, built in the reign of king Lalitaditya in the 8th century. On the way you see saffron feilds, flanked by steep fir-clad hills giving way to snow capped mountains.

 


 

GULMARG

Gulmarg lives upto it's name, which means meadow of flowers. It is at an altitute of 2730 mtrs from the sea level. It is a large upland meadow 56 kms southwest of Sringar. Gulmarg is India's major Ski resort in the winter, an execellent destination of skiing, snow boarding, skating, curling and ski bobbing and world's highest golf course in the summer..

 

 


 

SONAMARG

Meadow of gold, 90 kms from Srinagar at an altitute of 2740 mtrs., is an excellent base for mountain trekking and hiking upto Thajwas glacier.

 

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