Astanmarg Viewpoint & Paragliding
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Dachigam National Park
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The last home of the hangul — Kashmir's red deer — in crag-and-chinar valleys just 22 km from Srinagar, with black bears feasting on autumn mulberries.
Harwan Garden & Buddhist Site
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
A canal-cooled terraced garden at Dachigam's gate, above 4th-century Buddhist terraces whose patterned tiles are Kashmir's oldest art.
Nishat Bagh
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'garden of joy' — twelve zodiac terraces of roses and fountains stepping straight down to Dal's shore, framed by Zabarwan crags.
Shalimar Bagh
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Jahangir's 1619 garden of love for Nur Jahan — four chinar-shaded terraces of fountains climbing from Dal Lake toward the Zabarwan mountains.
Dal Lake
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar's mirror — shikaras glide past floating gardens, lotus beds and carved cedar houseboats moored since the Raj, with the Pir Panjal reflected in glassy water. Mornings bring a floating vegetable market; evenings, saffron kahwa on your houseboat deck.
Burzahom Archaeological Site
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir's prehistory in one karewa mound — Neolithic pit-dwellings, hunting-scene engravings and megaliths from 3000 BCE, on UNESCO's tentative list.
Hazratbal Shrine
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The white-marble lakeside dargah holding the Moi-e-Muqqadas — the Prophet's sacred hair relic — Kashmir's holiest Muslim shrine, mirrored in Dal's waters.
Char Chinar Island, Dal Lake
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
A tiny Mughal island of four sentinel chinar trees mid-lake — Murad Baksh's 17th-century folly, reached only by shikara.
Chashme Shahi & Pari Mahal
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'royal spring' garden of famed digestive waters, and above it Dara Shikoh's seven-terraced Pari Mahal — a Sufi school glowing over Dal at dusk.
Srinagar Houseboat & Shikara Experience
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Sleeping on carved-cedar Victorian houseboats and waking to the floating vegetable market — the definitive Kashmir ritual on Dal and Nigeen.
Autumn Chinar Season, Kashmir
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
October's crimson-gold fortnight when giant chinars torch the Mughal gardens, Naseem Bagh's university groves and every village square.
Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Asia's largest tulip garden — 1.7 million blooms in ribbons of colour under the Zabarwan hills for three dazzling spring weeks.