Manasbal Lake
Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Nearby attractions
Parihaspora Ruins (Lalitaditya's Capital)
Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir
The megalithic plinths of 8th-century Kashmir's imperial city on a karewa over the Jhelum — stone blocks so vast they defeated later plunderers.
Wular Lake & Watlab
Bandipora, Jammu and Kashmir
One of Asia's largest freshwater lakes — a bird-thronged inland sea where fishing skiffs harvest water chestnuts beneath the Baba Shukruddin shrine hill.
Hokersar Wetland
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'queen of wetlands' — a Ramsar reed-lake where hundreds of thousands of migratory ducks and geese winter on the Srinagar–Baramulla road.
Apple Orchards of Sopore & Shopian
Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir
India's apple bowl in blossom and harvest — pick-your-own delicious reds in September, white orchard-bloom seas in April, and Asia's biggest fruit mandi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jama Masjid & Old Srinagar (Nowhatta)
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
A 1394 mosque of 378 deodar columns and Central Asian courtyards, in the old city's maze of copperware lanes, bakeries and the Khanqah-e-Moula's papier-mâché interiors.
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.
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.
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.