
Tulip Garden Opens For Public With 15 Lakh Tulips Of 68 Varieties
Besides 15 lakh tulips of various colours and hues, the garden, also known as Siraj Bagh, has other spring flowers, such as hyacinths, daffodils, muscari and cyclamens, on display.
Besides 15 lakh tulips of various colours and hues, the garden, also known as Siraj Bagh, has other spring flowers, such as hyacinths, daffodils, muscari and cyclamens, on display.
As the spring is gradually ending the chilly winter in Kashmir, the iconic almond garden in the old city has already bloomed with the festive flowers.
Life in Kashmir was disrupted on the final day of the ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’, the harshest winter period in the region, on Monday as fresh snowfall snapped the Valley’s connections with the rest of the world, affecting surface and air traffic besides disrupting power supply in most parts of the valley.
Moderate to heavy snowfall covered Kashmir on Friday, with streets and buildings cloaked in white and the Valley remaining cut-off from the rest of the country.
Famous ski resort of Gulmarg in North Kashmir presents a fairytale view these days.
Kashmir valley is in the grip of an intense cold wave and most of the water bodies, including Srinagar’s iconic Dal Lake, have frozen.
Srinagar and other areas in the Kashmir plains received light snowfall, the season’s first, on Thursday while moderate snow broke the dry spell in the Valley’s higher reaches, officials said.
As pivotal members of Kashmir’s craft community, these washermen ensure the final sanitised touches to the iconic shawl before it graces some big global shelves.
The Kashmir Valley is right now into autumn season, which usually falls during September-November. The leaves of trees turn golden and reddish. The word in Kashmiri language for autumn is ‘harud’.
For the first time in the last three years, tens of thousands of devotees from across Kashmir Valley converged at the revered Hazratbal shrine here on Friday following Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the day when Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was born.
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