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October 2013

The Sind Valley

From the Book "KASHMIR' By Sir Francis Younghusband 1st Published in September 1909 The most striking of the side-valley is undoubtedly the Sind Valley. A fourteen-miles ride, or a night in a boat, takes the traveller to Ganderbal at its…

The Shikarawallahs

The Quintessential Face of Kashmir Tourism Walking down the boulevard was always sheer pleasure not to talk about the experience of shikara ride in the Dal. Going down the memory lane, our first all girls shikara ride was quite a…

Nazir Bakshi – Part One

Sitting in his cozy office of Shiraz Travels at Lambert Lane in Srinagar, Nazir Bakshi , the scion of the Bakshi clan is a living legend in his own right. What he has done for the tourism industry in Kashmir is well known within the domain…