After Amarnath, we left the Baltal camp and headed towards Srinagar, next on the itinerary was Gulmarg, a mountain that could be reached by taking a cable car.




The cable car and the trees would be covered with snow in the winter, its just so bright and the view is clear during the we went there...
Gulmarg supposedly hosts the world's highest golf course, however we didn't go there :(
Gulmarg supposedly hosts the world's highest golf course, however we didn't go there :(

We noticed that the roads were deserted, there were no street lights as we went to the hotel :(
In the past 15 years or so, life has been a living hell in Srinagar, it has lost its charm. One of the localities was telling us that if we expected Kashmir to be like Switzerland (which people used to to do) then he can only be sorry for that!
I did speak to people from Kashmir as to how they feel about all this, they told that they didn't bother much about the attacks, they had learned to live with it, they were only concerned about bringing up their kids, their education :(

But to the visitors it is, as the BEACON (Border Roads Organization force) puts it
Kashmir,
-The Paradise on Earth
-The bowl of fruits
-The bed of Saffron
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