Kashmir

I'm just back from ten days in Kashmir.




Really Kashmir is just one big valley wedged in between
the top of India and the very West of Pakistan.
Most of Kashmir is controlled by India and that is where we were.

It is a very beautiful place,
we were staying a houseboat on lake Dal in a valley surrounded by snow capped mountains, a world away from the hustle bustle of Delhi and Mumbai.
Every morning we got a shicara across the lake to Srinagar (capital of Kashmir).

As could be expected the people were really friendly,
they were quite distinct from the rest of Indians we met,
fair skin and blue eyes were common, they spoke their own language of Kasmiri
and used many Arabic phrases common in Muslim areas.

All in all a really unique place.