Tosa Maidan
Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Doodhpathri (Valley of Milk)
Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir
Rolling turf so lush the streams froth white — a Pir Panjal meadow bowl an hour from Srinagar that stays green when the valley bakes.
Drung Waterfall, Tangmarg
Tangmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
The waterfall that freezes — a broad cascade below Gulmarg that turns to a cathedral of blue-white ice each deep winter, and a trout stream in summer.
Baba Reshi Shrine
Tangmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
The walnut-wood ziarat of 15th-century Rishi saint Baba Payam-ud-Din, its carved Mughal-Kashmiri halls a pilgrimage stop on the Gulmarg road.
Yusmarg
Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'meadow of Jesus' — a pine amphitheatre under Sang-e-Safed's snows, with the Doodh Ganga rushing through and Nilnag lake in the woods.
Gulmarg Winter Skiing
Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
The Himalaya's powder capital — 1,330 m of gondola-served vertical off Apharwat, heli-ski lines, ski schools and Asia's best affordable off-piste.
Gulmarg
Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
The 'meadow of flowers' at 2,650 m — India's premier ski resort, where one of the world's highest cable cars rises to 3,980 m on Apharwat for powder bowls in winter and wildflower carpets in summer, above one of the world's highest golf courses.
Gulmarg Gondola & Apharwat Peak
Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
One of the world's highest cable cars, rising in two stages to 3,980-m Apharwat — powder skiing in winter, snow-play and Line-of-Control panoramas all year.
Loran Valley & Fort Ruins, Poonch
Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir
The medieval capital of Poonch under Pir Panjal snows — orchard terraces, the Loran nallah and grass-grown fort mounds of the old Lohara dynasty.
Alpather Lake
Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir
A glacial tarn beneath Apharwat's twin summits that stays ice-flecked into July — a stark, boulder-ringed bowl a half-day trek or pony ride from Gulmarg.
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.
Charar-e-Sharief
Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir
The hill-town shrine of Sheikh Noor-ud-din Noorani (Nund Rishi), Kashmir's patron saint — rebuilt in carved wood, the heart of the valley's Rishi order.
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.