Jama Masjid & Old Srinagar (Nowhatta)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Badamwari Almond Garden
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Spring's first act in Kashmir — Hari Parbat's old almond orchard turns white-pink in March, a fortnight before the tulips even wake.
Hari Parbat Fort & Makhdoom Sahib
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
An 18th-century Afghan fort crowning the hill of goddess Sharika, shared with the Makhdoom Sahib shrine and a gurudwara — Srinagar's hill of all faiths.
Kashmir Crafts: Pashmina, Papier-Mâché & Carpets
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Workshop lanes where GI-tagged pashmina is spun on wooden wheels, papier-mâché blooms in gold leaf and carpet looms knot silk gardens.
Kashmiri Wazwan Food Trail
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The 36-course royal feast of rista, rogan josh, tabak maaz and gushtaba — eaten four to a trami — plus harissa mornings and bakery-and-noon-chai rituals.
Nigeen Lake
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Dal's quieter twin — a deep blue lagoon ringed by willows and poplars, where houseboats sit far apart and shikaras glide without the crowds.
Sri Pratap Singh (SPS) Museum
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir's state museum on the Jhelum — Harwan tiles, Gilgit manuscripts, shawl pattern-books and bronzes tracing 5,000 valley years.
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.
Shankaracharya Temple
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
A 9th-century stone Shiva shrine on the 1,100-ft Takht-e-Suleiman hill — the oldest surviving temple in Kashmir, with the whole valley at its feet.
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.
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.
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.