My Trip to Kashmir

Saachi Koul

When I went to Kashmir I thought it would be really polluted like Delhi but when I got there I was surprised to see that it was really green and beautiful. There were mountains all around and I went to beautiful gardens that had fields filled with colourful flowers and   plants. Dal Lake was also very pretty and I rode on a shikara in the evening. We rode across the lake and found stalls stationed on the water that sold lots of different things like saris and dresses as well as food and drinks. Kashmir was quite cold unlike other places in India and the nights were breezy and chilly as we stayed in a houseboat. 

Kashmir was an amazing experience and was very very beautiful, it was also nice to see the place where my parents grew up. 

I was really excited to go to Kashmir for the first time because it was the place that my parents grew up and they had talked about it a lot. On the car journey there, we drove across huge mountains which was really fun even though a hoard of goats blocked up the entire road at some point. I had expected Kashmir to be really polluted like Delhi but when I got there I was surprised to see that it was very beautiful and green. Mountains surrounded the entire place and wherever you were you just had to look up and you could see them. There were lots of fields full of colourful flowers, plants and trees and there was so much flourishing nature there. We stopped for pani puri at Dal lake and they were so delicious and so much better than the ones we have in the UK. We rode on a shikara in the evenings across the lake as the sun was setting and saw little stalls stationed in the water selling all kinds of things like clothes and food. 

We all stayed on a houseboat for the first couple of nights and it was a really cool experience although it was quite cold there. We also went horseback riding for two hours on our last day and my uncle and parents went water rafting down a rushing river and coincidentally got filmed doing it by a youtuber who was there. Overall, Kashmir was a really fun experience and it was nice getting to see where my parents spent their childhood. Even around nine months later I still have very vivid memories of it.