Srinagar is an excellent base for travellers who want mountain scenery without committing to a multi-day trek. Within a short drive of the city, paths climb…
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Thousands of tulips fill the Indira Gandhi Tulip Garden in Srinagar each spring, usually from the final days of March into the second half of April. The…
Kashmir’s traditional wazwan cuisine turns dinner into a generous, slow-moving celebration. At its centre is a beautifully seasoned rice dish, accompanied by…
Nigeen Lake sits just beyond Srinagar’s busiest tourist corridors, yet mornings can be wonderfully still. It is often compared with Dal Lake, but the…
Planning a family trip to Sonamarg around sledding, ponies and glacier views works best when each day is treated as a gentle mountain outing rather than a…
Charar-e-Sharief Shrine is a white-marble sanctuary in Tral, a small town in Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Surrounded by orchards, poplars and distant mountain…
Learning how to take a ferry across the Jhelum River is less about a formal transport timetable than about understanding a local, small-scale way of moving…
Few evenings capture Srinagar quite like dinner beside Dal Lake. As daylight fades, houseboat lights shimmer across the water, distant hills become…
How to stay safe while trekking in Kashmir: weather and guides should shape every route, not merely appear as a final booking checkbox. The valley can offer…
Kashmir in winter is often imagined as an empty white landscape, yet the season can be one of the region’s richest wildlife periods. Fresh snow records the…