Top Tourist Attractions And Destinations In Kashmir

Kashmir is believed to be the prettiest place on earth , It is every travellers dream to visit the destination at least once in a lifetime .The Customised itineraries designed by Swan Tours , Delhi include visit to the popular destinations in Kashmir such as Vaishno Devi , Patnitop , Srinagar , Pahalgam, Gulmarg and Sonmarg . The travel experiences include Pilgrimage , Skiing ,Mountain climbing , Trekking , Rafting and many more . Below is the list of Top tourist attractions and destinations in Kashmir 

#1. Shikara Ride on the Dal Lake

Well this is the most essential, and relatively every lodging has a course of action for a Shikara Ride on the Dal Lake. A Shikara is a kind of a vessel, which has a rooftop.

Shikara Rides are dynamic nearly consistently, when the lake isn't solidified, which just occurs amid the pinnacle winter times.

A Shikara Ride costs around Rs. 800 for a 2-hour ride around Dal Lake.

#2. Remain in a Houseboat

Something else the Dal Lake is well known for, other than itself, are the gigantic gathering of houseboats, with luxurious rooms simply holding up to serve you.

These houseboats are scattered everywhere throughout the Dal Lake in Srinagar, and the duties for remains in them differ, in light of the sort of houseboat you're searching for. The top of the line houseboats could go as high as Rs. 11,000 a night, while the spending houseboats could cost as low as Rs. 800 every night.

#3. Water Sports

One of Asia's biggest crisp water lakes is in Kashmir. Called the Wular Lake, this is the center point of all the water wears in Kashmir.

Water skiing and other such water sports are what have been begun by the Government of India Tourism at this freshwater lake. Exercises here cost anyplace from…

#4. Hitting the fairway at Pahalgam

Despite the fact that hitting the fairway is a game for the lovers and for the most part a rich people brandish, however the Pahalgam Golf Course is a site for sore eyes. A gigantic 9-opening fairway, at an elevation of 2,400 meters above ocean level.

The main issue with this is the way that you need to get an enrollment with this green, which could be costly for a few.

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#5. Wazwan

Wazwan is a conventional take a seat on a cover with reinforces, to appreciate a multi course dinner of some lip smacking Kashmiri sustenance, the vast majority of which are meat-based (for the most part sheep and chicken). Foodies? Here is Kashmir's greatest offering point.

Contingent upon the eateries, the Wazwan experience could cost diverse costs beginning from Rs. 500.

The best eatery choices for Wazwan are; The Chinar by The Lalit, Café 99, Crescent Lake View Restaurant, all in Srinagar.

#6. Activities at Patnitop

Kashmir has numerous towns that offer enterprise don exercises to the travelers, and Patnitop is one of them. At Patnitop, you have numerous choices for various tastes of individuals. Exercises offered here are:

• Skiing

• Aero sports

• Trekking

• Rafting

The reality about skiing at Patnitop is that the slant is even and doesn't have an excessive number of sharp turns, which makes it an ideal area for novices to begin their skiing knowledge.

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#7. Visit the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden

Effortlessly a standout amongst the most famous vacation spots of Srinagar is the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden. The Tulips in the garden sprout for around 30 days in a year, for the most part amongst March and April, contingent upon the climate.

After only a 9km long relieving ride along the Dal Lake, driving south, the amazing cutting of 7 porches of parallel columns of the considerable number of shades of Tulips start. The Tulips here are additionally multi hued and crossover.

Section expenses here is simply Rs. 50 for grown-ups, and Rs. 25 for kids.

#8. Experience Sports in Pahalgam

Pahalgam is another significant town in Kashmir, which offers an assortment of enterprise exercises to the travelers, some of which are:

• Trout Fishing

• Trekking

• Whitewater Rafting

Other than this, Pahalgam additionally has a brilliant 9-opening Golf course for those golf aficionados, encompassed by the superb Himalayan mountain run.

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#9. Shop at the Tibetan Market

Leh (Ladakh) sports a Tibetan bug/road market to the sightseers, where voyagers can purchase their bits and sways, or even garments and frill, at exceptionally shoddy rates.

Expression OF CAUTION: Almost everything sold at this insect is a duplicate. So don't give the merchants a chance to scam you by pitching it to you calling it a unique.

#10. Visit the Jamia Masjid

The Jamia Masjid of Srinagar is arranged at Nowhatta amidst the Old City. It was worked by sultan Sikandar Shah Kashmiri Shahmiri in 1394 AD. Under the request of Mir Mohmmad Hamadani, child of Said-ul-Auliya Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. Sultan Sikhandar's child Zain-ul-abidin broadened the Jamia Masjid by including turret. It has similitudes to Buddhist pagodas and is developed in Persian style.

The Jamia Masjid is one of the Monuments that relate to the establishing of Kashmir, which is the thing that makes it one of the spots that are not to be missed by those history fans.

#11. Experience the Magnetic Hill

Magnet Hill is a "gravity slope" situated close Leh in Ladakh, India. The format of the territory and encompassing slants makes an optical figment that the declining street is really a tough street. Articles and autos on the slope may seem to move "tough" in rebellion of gravity when they are, truth be told, moving downhill.

The myth is that your auto moves itself however in opposition to prevalent thinking, it is only a figment as the street is a straight and long extend, which makes the deception that you're driving tough yet you're really going downhill.

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#12. Gulmarg Snow Festival

Gulmarg snow celebration was begun in 2003 to advance and empower winter games and tourism here. A two-day-long snow celebration has started in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir. The celebration plans to draw in vacationers and is sorted out by the tourism service. Various snow sports happen amid the season of the celebration and visitors can appreciate a vast assortment of delights the celebration brings to the table.

#13. Move at the Navratri Festival

Local people call it Chaitra Navratri, which is praised with most extreme grandeur and delight in Kashmir by Kashmiri Pandits. In 2017, Chaitra Navratri starts on March 28th and closes on April fifth.

In the first place Day of Navratri is called Navreh, and it likewise denotes the start of the Kashmiri Hindu New Year and envoys the beginning of spring season.

#14. Kahwa

Kahwa is a conventional green tea arrangement expended in Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, a few locales of Central Asia and, in northern India particularly Kashmir Valley. In Pakistan, it is made in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and north Punjab locales. It is a prominent breakfast drink among Kashmiris, for the most part went with unique Kashmiri prepared things like Girda. Kashmiris living in all through Indus Valley, especially in the urban agglomerations of Islamabad, Karachi, and Peshawar have likewise added to the tea's ubiquity among non-Kashmiris, (for example, the Muhajir people group).

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#15. Visit the Sir Pratap Singh Memorial Museum

The principle gallery of Kashmir is the Sri Pratap Singh Museum. Once the late spring royal residence of the Maharajas of Kashmir, it was later changed over into a historical center in the year 1898. A noteworthy bit of the historical center accumulation, by then of time, comprised of articles from the Jammu and Kashmir toshkhana. The toshkhana gathering of this exhibition hall of Kashmir, India incorporates shawls, artistic creations, arms and ordnance, silver pictures, copper and jade decorations, copper and metal utensils and Ladkhi crafted works.

#16. Camel Safari in Ladakh

Camel Safaris are one of the star attractions of Ladakh. Riding on the back of a camel through the valleys of the cold desert is an experience of a lifetime. This is an activity which is a must do for every tourist heading to Ladakh, as it is a must do for everyone.

A camel ride would cost approximately Rs. 500 an hour, which is pretty decent for an experience of a lifetime.

#17. Attend the Ladakh Festival

Many festivals are enthusiastically celebrated in Ladakh every year by the Ladakhis and the Tibetans. The top 3 festivals that are celebrated with a bash are the Losar Festival, Yargon Tungshak Festival, and the Matho Narang Festival, a.k.a Oracle Festival.

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#18. Mountain Biking in the Kashmir Valley

Be it for the more daring, mountain biking is an extreme sport which has a thrill like none other. It is scary, no doubt, but it is still a popularly practiced sport by adrenalin junkies.

Bike rentals are easily available at any popular market in Kashmir at a shoestring cost to every person at an hourly and daily rate, depending on the length of your ride.

#19. Horse Riding in Gulmarg

Horse riding, although is a pretty cliché in mountains, but specific to Gulmarg, being one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world, Horseback riding is an extremely popular activity there amongst tourists. Riding all the way up to different peaks at an hourly rate of a few hundred rupees is something that everyone can and should do.

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#20. Street Food in Kashmir

The street food of Kashmir is a delicacy for every traveler. The warm crispy Nander Monje, which is lotus stems dried and deep fried to make long French fries lookalike snacks. The warm and goey Cheetos lookalike Shangram, which melts in your mouth and is usually served with Kahwah. The Monje Gaad, which is a fish preparation, which explodes in your mouth to satisfy your taste buds completely. All these dishes cost barely Rs. 20- Rs.100 which Is very affordable, and thus a must try.

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#21. Shop at the Floating Market on the Dal Lake

The floating market on the Dal Lake in Srinagar is a flotilla of boats all lined up selling fruits, vegetables and tiny bits and bobs that people would love to take home as a souvenir of their travel to this Heaven on Earth.

Products sold here are pretty cheap and extremely beautiful and are representatives of the different cultures and traditions in Kashmir.

Well needless to say, skiing is already an awesome thing to do, and skiing downhill in Gulmarg, where the view is so serene and adrenalin takes you over while you’re going downhill at an almost uncontrollable speed it what skiing feels like up in Gulmarg.

Again skis are easily available on rent at almost every popular market in the area, and is very affordable so everyone can have that once in a lifetime experience.

#23. Shop for Authentic Spices

The power of nature is portrayed in one of the best ways in the spice markets of Kashmir. The authenticity and zero adulteration and 100% natural aroma and taste of these spices is what you have the chance to buy at the markets at an almost negligible price, usually pocket change for our foreign tourists.

#24. Celebrate Bakri Eid the Kashmiri Way

Bakri Eid, being one of the most popularly celebrated festival amongst the Muslim communities, and since Kashmir has a large percentage of Muslim residents, Bakri Eid is very enthusiastically celebrated festival in Kashmir.

The best quality lamb is cooked into a lavish setup of multiple lamb dishes to be served to a group of people who sit down to enjoy a lip smacking meal together. Kind of like thanksgiving, but instead of the turkey, people eat lamb.

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#25. Bactrian Camel Ride

A Bactrian Camel is a camel with 2 humps on it’s back, and riders are meant to sit in the middle of those two humps. Other than the 2 hums, they are almost the same as regular camels, and they cost up to 800 rupees an hour to ride on the back of these camels, but adding this experience to your life is nothing but a positive addition.

#26. Gondola Ride in Gulmarg

Gondola is the name of the cable cars that take you uphill and downhill in Gulmarg. While at a 2,000 meter altitude, and high off the ground, the Gondola ride is going to take the tourists all the way up the highest peaks in Gulmarg, while the snow covered hills and dry trees pass you by, it is one of the most killer views to the tourists.

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#27. Visit Shalimar Bagh

Shalimar Bagh is a Mughal garden in Srinagar, linked through a channel to the northeast of Dal Lake, on its right bank located on the outskirts of Srinagar city in Jammu and Kashmir. Its other names are Shalimar Garden, Shalimar Bagh, Farah Baksh and Faiz Baksh, and the other famous shore line garden in the vicinity is Nishat Bagh. The Bagh was built by Mughal Emperor Jahangir for his wife Noor Jahan, in 1619. The Bagh is considered the high point of Mughal horticulture. It is now a public park. This time it’s also called as crown of Srinagar.

#28. Hot Springs in Verinag

A major tourist attraction of this place is Verinag Spring, for which this place is named. There is an octagonal stone basin at Verinag Spring and an arcade surrounding it which were built by Mughal emperor Jahangir in 1620 A.D. Later, a beautiful garden next to this spring, was laid out by his son Shah Jahan. This spring is known to never dry up or overflow. Verinag Spring is also the major source of river Jhelum. Verinag Spring and Mughal Arcade surrounding it is officially recognized by Archaeological Survey of India as a Monument of National Importance.

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#29. Trek the Hills

Well trekking is probably one of the most obvious activities while travelling the hills and it is no different with Kashmir. Trekking through the Kashmir valley, with it’s unseen beauty and serenity is to die for. Te fact that millions of tourists visit the Kahsmir valley every year is a clean as day sign that it is something that has to be done without fail. Trekking through the hills and the remote villages and camping out at night is an experience meant for every single person, which brings me to the last activity.

#30. Camping

While trekking to the remotest valleys of Chatpal, Daksum, Karnah, and the many more, which are hidden far away from the civilization in the mountains are perfect places to camp out while trekking through the majestic Himalayas through the Kashmir valley. Needless to say, it is a highly budgeted expedition, as the stay is accounted for, travel is on foot, and food is cheap packed/canned goods.

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