Kashmir Shikara, India

Dal Lake Shikaras
Dal Lake is famed world wide for its picturesque beauty and Shikaras. Operated by Houseboat communities, the Dal Lake houseboats hosts stunning houseboats made up of woods and furnished with excellent luxuries. Putting up on the floating houseboats on Dal lake provides with an excellent experience of living on water in a panorama beyond description. The experience of a holiday in Kashmir can be made memorable with the stay on a houseboat, that are surrounded by great Mountain View.

Riding Desires
The coupling of Kashmir and its Shikara can be best termed muse for it's just sourced some fantabulous lines of great poets. Holidaying in Kashmir without a ride on Shikara is incomplete. Beautiful Lakes and water bodies nestled in the lap of mountains in Kashmir are worth taking a jaunt to let our hearts render the best preserved lines. The two-hour boat ride takes tourists on a relaxing sightseeing tour of interior parts of the calm and composed waters of Dal Lake, and be part of shopping- by-Shikara pleasure trips. During few hours of Dal Lake cruise you come to explore many tourists places located in its vicinity. Nishat and Shalimar gardens as well as Hazratbal mosque are directly accessible by Shikara.

Feathery Glide
Your Shikara trip will be accompanied by migratory avians with robust bills perched on the branches of willow trees. A swarm of birds, hunting on the floating gardens, will decorate your trip with their unmatched flights in the immediate vicinity. The hunting birds that make their way on islands created by man for vegetations. This is extremely fertile and provide rich source of food in the form of frogs, lizards, mice, grasshoppers and other insects to the Kingfisher.

Another Journey: Nagin Lake
Taking a Shikara ride on Nagin Lake is an out-of-box experience. Lined by willow trees water of Nagin Lake mirrors the ice clad conical tree leaves of lake. To its south is the Shankaracharya hill (or Takht-i-Sulaiman) and to the west, is Hari Parbat. A floating shopping joint, Nagin Lake is thronged by salesman who sell out everything from fruit, nuts, fresh flowers, film, baked goods, pappier-match boxes, woolen shawls, silk carpets, leather goods, money-changing services and on and on.

Pleasant Lake: Mansar Lake
Mansar Lake is a beautiful lake, wrapped by trees on all side and dotted by mountains here there. The food and crafts festivals by J&K Tourism is a grand festival organized on bank of Mansar Lake.

Essential Facts

• Srinagar is connected through regular flights to Delhi, Jammu and Leh. Jammu is the nearest railhead if one wants to reach Kashmir through railways.
• The best time to reach Kashmir is from March and September
• Tourist Reception Centre, J&K Department of Tourism, Vir Marg,