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.