About Kashmir
Houseboats, Mughal gardens
and snow-lit meadows
Kashmir has been called Paradise on Earth for centuries — the Mughal emperors built their finest gardens here, and it is easy to understand why. A valley of lakes, willow trees, and snow peaks, framed entirely by the Pir Panjal and the Great Himalaya.
From a dawn Shikara ride across Dal Lake's floating vegetable market to the alpine meadows of Gulmarg and Sonmarg, from the shepherd valleys of Pahalgam to the sacred Trikuta Mountains above Katra — Kashmir and Jammu together hold some of India's most varied Himalayan landscapes.
This is a land of houseboats carved from walnut wood, saffron fields in Pampore, and a cuisine — the Wazwan — built around slow-cooked lamb dishes prepared for royal feasts for over five centuries.
