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SRINAGAR-
Srinagar ( The city of Sun), the " Venice of the Himal
SHANKARACHARYA -TEMPLE Within Srinagar, on its highest hill is the Shankaracharya temple nearly one thousand feet above the city. It is devoted to lord Shiva. The site dates back to 2500 BC. The philosopher Shankaracharya stayed at this site when he visited Kashmir ten centuries ago to revive sanatan Dharma. Before this date, the temple was known as Gopadri, as an earlier edifice on the same site was built by king Gppaditya in the 16th century. |
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the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, offers many sights worth seeing, as
well as various sports and entertainment facilities. Due to its central
location, it is an ideal station for longer holidays as well. The present
city was founded by King Pravarasen II around A.D. 150. The city lies
to the right and left of the Jhelum and stretches eastwards up to the
Dal and Nagin Lakes. Nine bridges, partly wooden even today, cross the
Jhelum within the city borders. Srinagar is a unique city because of
its lakes - the Dal, Nagin and Anchar. The river Jhelum also flows through
a part of the city. The Dal, Stinagar's largest lake, has the most number
of Houseboats followed by the Nagin and the Jhelum. As a general rule
Houseboat in the Dal are of all categories from deluxe through to D
class. 
MUGHAL GARDENS- Kashmir
was a favorite of the Mughal emperors who visited it as often as they
could. Cool and refreshing after the plain of North India where the
business of governance kept them, they planted gardens with stepped
terraces and flowing water courses. Cheshmashahi is the first Mughal
garden you will pass after Nehru Park. Built at a height above the city,
its view are as stupendous as its layout. The smallest of Srinagar's
Mughal gardens, Cheshmashahi has only three terraces in addition to
a natural spring of water enclosed in a stone pavilion. The next garden
along the road that encircles the Dal is the Nishat, built by Empress
Nur Jahan's brother Asaf Khan. The largest of the gardens, Nishat has
several terraces, a central water course and the zabarwan hills. The
third Mughal garden - the Shalimar was planted by Jehangir, the Mughal
emperor whose love for Kashmir was legendary. Shaded by magnificent
chinar trees, the Shalimar is a series of stone pavilions and flowing
water with paint box bright flower beds. 
HAZRATBAL
MOSQUE- Across the Dal from Shalimar is the mosque of
Hazratbal, the only one of its kind architecturally in Kashmir. Made
of white marble with a dome and a minaret, Hazratbal is the repository
of a single hair of the Prophet Mohammed, exhibited to the public on
certain days of the year. The mosque was built in 1619 during the reign
of the great Mughal Emperor Jehangir and shelters as a relic single
thread of the Prophet Mohammed which Sayed Abdullah had brought here
from Medina. 
