Posts Tagged ‘Dal Lake’
Serene Kashmir
A very scenic view, every tourist to Kashmir’s must watch is the Dal Lake. The true Srinagari Kashmiri shall share about how most of their time spent on this lake makes their life richer, better and worth a memory. Its rick with culture, heritage, customs, traditions, lifestyle, and market place inside the lake. They have their floating farmlands, with day to day commuting on Shikara from their home within their -partially rented out as hotel- houseboats. Also their daily life how they manage schooling their kids to managing their business and moving between downtown market for fulfilling their basic necessities.
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Why does my heart sing
Shikara ride – a lifestyle – a culture – a mode of transport – a means of living the bread and butter – a RBC and WBC of Kashmiri’s regular blood stream. A common man would definitely have nothing else but to hmmmm along the regular day in his life across this Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir.
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Dal Lake market street
The busy streets of Dal Lake, where vendors move on their mobile shikaras’ – a real great market place in the middle of the lake streets, cut through by water lanes and really meant for travellers to be enticed by local flavors of local food, local fashion, local artifacts, local famous kashmere handicrafts, a collection of shawls, ornaments, and women wear for mostly a cheaper deal compared to shops in the town area where we get the same things for a larger deal. These street side shops make a good bargain for most and if the house boat owners have references – the shikara riders have commissions. The most of these places give you a perfect flavor of what is the best thing to buy. Try going there some day again.
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Blurry way ahead
This was an evening at Srinagar while we were doing the Dal Lake trip on a Shikara and I was unable to decide if i should capture a photo or wait for the rains to stop. It started raining suddenly and all I could visualize was a wonderful scenic frame to capture. I had some preset manual configs on the camera and somehow managed to take this shot with a low shutter speed, high aperture and a non tripod shot 
– the best I could get was a blurry shot which shows a lot of drama in the story line. The whole motion makes it more exciting and chaotic, more ghostly and really turbulent. Comments appreciated.
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