Dachigam National Park
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Nearby attractions
Astanmarg Viewpoint & Paragliding
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The Zabarwan shelf above Dal where tandem pilots launch into the sunset — Srinagar, its lakes and the Pir Panjal in one slow spiral.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kheer Bhawani Temple, Tulmulla
Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir
The spring-island shrine of goddess Ragnya Devi, whose sacred pool is said to change colour in omen — heart of the Kashmiri Pandit faith, honoured by all communities.