Day 2 started with a long morning walk along the Dal lake. Rest of the day was spent in various Mughal gardens. Chesmashahi, Nishant garden and Shalimar garden. These are all sprawling beautiful gardens built in layers in the mountain. We also visited Pari mahal. It used to be a buddhist monaestery which was converted to a palace by the Mughals. The top banner picture of this blog is a panoramic view of Dal lake from Pari Mahal. We had the most divine Kashmiri food at Ahdoo’s. The day ended with Gustawa (meat balls cooked in curd and masala)
Just to let you know that the little tree is called Umbrella Peach and the big one, is the Chinar, also called the AC tree. Imol
ReplyDelete... all of this looks lovely ... hope you are being true to your sister and shamelessly stealing fruit!
ReplyDeleteWill definitely give it a shot, haven't found any fruit bearing trees within stealing proximity so far, so yet to attain thine exalted status in Kashmir. But will keep trying o sis!
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