A trip to the heaven on earth – Kashmir – Day 2

Next day, we thought of taking it easy by going for local sightseeing within Srinagar.  We had breakfast in houseboat and started on our day trip.  It was too hot a day in Srinagar which is not an appropriate weather to roam around. Here are the places we went in same order:

     1.  Hazratbal Shrine: It’s a huge and beautiful shrine. It is very famous as it contains a hair of Holy Prophet Muhammad. There was sense of peace there. We stayed there for some time. We started chatting with a person sitting inside. He was so humble and welcoming. And that’s true for most of the kashmiri people, they are really nice and helpful people.

                                 

     2.   Next we went to various garden which Srinagar is famous for – Shalimar Bagh, Nishat bagh, Mugal garden. These gardens were very similar to each other having mugal architecture. There were lots of flowers, fountains around and chinar trees in these gardens. As it was too hot, we saw some kids enjoying in water there but we didn’t enjoy these garden very much. But I bet in other seasons like autumn when chinar leaves turn red, purple, all these gardens would definitely be much more beautiful. 

                                           
    
3.   Next we went to Chashme Shahi garden. This place is famous for spring and many people were drinking and filling the water there. It’s a very small garden otherwise.
     

     4.  Next we went to Pari Mahal (near to Chashme Shahi). This is a place with seven terraced gardens. There is nothing much to do there. But it gives a nice view of complete Srinagar city. You will get a view of a huge golf course from there. 

     5.    We were tried by then and headed to our last stop - Shankaracharya Temple. This is on a hill top with a shivling there, a very small temple. We had to climb stairs to reach to the temple. It also had nice view of Srinagar city.

It became quite hectic because of hot weather. We went to back to houseboat. After freshen up, we decided to take the shikara ride in Nagin lake. The ride was very beautiful, serene and relaxing. After about two hrs. we headed back to houseboat to call it a day.

                                 

Some notes :

      1.       Shankaracharya Temple closes at 5, so make sure to reach on time there.

      2.       Do shikara ride in Dal lake also, we could not do it because of lack of time.

    Link to Day -3 : http://manyrainbowsofmylife.blogspot.in/2016/07/a-trip-to-heaven-on-earth-kashmir-day-3.html