Srinagar

Srinagar: Day 1

Well every one admit that Srinagar is the wonderland, the air of Srinagar make you excited to enjoy the upcoming thrill, we experienced the same. The day 1 plane was to visit all the famous gardens and Dal Jheel, all though we had a glimpse of the lake when we were heading to the hotel and it was really amazing.

Starting our ride of the day we 1^st headed to Chashma Shahi(the royal spring) garden the one of the famous garden built around 1632 AD by Ali Mardan Khan a governor of Mughal emperor and as per the orders of Mughal Emperor Sha Jahan as a gift to Sha Jahan’s son. This garaden is small but pretty, you will find such vibrant colored flower, that you want spend you day over there but don’t stay for long hours as there are my thing coming up next, the main attraction of the this place the water from the spring which really sweet and chill, it was said the Pandit Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru) use to drink water from here, bring big cans from here to Delhi, so if you are there taste the water.

While coming down from Chashma Shahi our driver show the royal prince house and his personal garden which was huge but public is not allowed over there, any way reaching to main road there is another garden Chashma Shahi flower garden that is a simple flower garden, there you go and spent time to relax, enjoy the view, flowers and also if you want to try the traditional

dress and want to have photo in those dresses, you can fine people with dresses they will chard you minimum of 50 bucks and you can have the photo to have a classic touch and experience like my Mom and Dad, this garden is facilitate with boating but I advices to hold your excitement for Dal lake as shikara rides are waiting for you.

After Chashma Shahi we went to Nishat bagh the one I have read in my school book, Before Nishat shows its beauty to us we find many, many kids playing in and around the fountains for a moment I thought that might be some festival of playing in water but they all are my minds myth as they all are simply paling and enjoying, I have never saw such thing in my life, I guess if it was not in Srinagar this fun this madness couldn’t be possible, as in most places garden authority will not allow such fun.

As we move in the garden there were not much of flowers as the main season for the flowers to blossom is April but we got enough to pleas our eyes. Another thing what I noticed that not just the kinds, grownups were also in the fountain water playing like kids, seen that I was like “lets jump in dude” but my bad luck.

Rinsing my mind in some of the most beautiful memories we move out and in front of the Nishat bagh  shikara rides are there but it was noon and sun is really hot so we moved to Shalimar bagh, shikara rides well be awesome in winter and if you have hard luck like mine enjoy this ride in morning nearly sun rise or evening when sun is about to fall you will enjoy it. 

We reach the Shalimar Bagh the main attraction of the day and turned out to be standing on my expectation, classic beautiful girls, joking flowers most of all the way it was built it gives you a royal feeling when you move in the garden and at end you will find a building giving an ancient touch to the garden but many of Indian lovers destroyed this beautiful art, it’s really sad but still you can enjoy, one thing is there the peace mind one find there is just unexplainable. We sat there are just relax for while and moved to hotel, caring memories for life time and to prepare for the next exciting day. All the 4 gardens were awesome and have their own significance and it’s hard to compare them with each other it have its own fun  

(Note: The charges to all this 4 gardens is 20 bucks and 10 for kids, and there is no time limit to stay in the garden so you can spend you full day but do not do that as there lot more to see)