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Chashmashahi
Cheshmashahi is the first Mughal Garden you will pass after Nehru Park. Smallest of the Srinagar Mughal gardens, the Chasma Shahi,
or 'Royal Spring', are well up the hillside, above the Nehru Memorial
Park.
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Gulmarg
Gulmarg
is a hill resort of repute, not only for its beauty and prime location
but also as being the highest natural golf course of the world, situated
at an altitude of 2890 m.
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Harwan
Located in Srinagar, Harwan is a huge garden with a beautiful canal passing through its heart. Lined with flowerbeds and massive Chinar
Trees, the canal is fed from a beautiful lake, which lies just behind
the garden.
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Nishat Garden (The
garden of Spring)
Nishat Bagh was built by Empress Nur Jahan's brother Asaf Khan. The largest of the Mughal gardens, Nishat
has 12 terraces representing the 12 signs of the zodiac, which descend
gradually and seem to almost merge into the lake. These terraces viewed
along with the flower-beds, a riot of brilliant colors, present an
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Pari Mahal
Pari Mahal is as much a monument as garden. This was initially a garden built by Dara Shiko for his Sufi teacher, Mulla
Shah.
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Patnitop
112 km from Jammu, Patnitop boasts of being a hill
resort of matchless beauty. |
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Shalimar Garden
Shalimar Bagh was built by Emperor Jehangir for his wife Nur Jahan, 'light of the world' in 1616. Although it is known today as the 'garden of love' it was originally named the Farah Bakhsh
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Siachen Glacier
The Siachen glacier lies in the excessive north-central part of Jammu and Kashmir near the border of India and Tibet. With a length of about 72-km, Siachen
is identified as the biggest glacier in the world outside the Polar
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Sonamarg
The drive to Sonamarg is through the Sindh Valley
which presents yet another spectacular facet of countryside in Kashmir.
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Zangla
Zangla Lying deep in the northern arm of Zanskar at the end of the 35 km. Long rough road from Padum, Zangla
was being ruled by a titular king till his death a few years back.
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Zanskar
The hidden kingdom of the hill resort of Zanskar
is famous for its snow-white high hills and gorgeous Gompas or
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