Sukoon

Dal Lake, Kashmir

A five-room houseboat on Dal Lake, with water on every side.

The place

A Kashmiri houseboat done properly — carved cedar, three-hundred-and-sixty degrees of lake and mountain, and five rooms. Shikaras come to the deck. The owners will take you out to the floating gardens, to the villages round the lake, and up into the hills behind.

What is there

Five rooms on the water
Carved cedar throughout
Shikara trips from the deck
Floating vegetable gardens at dawn
Guided hikes in the hills
Kashmiri cooking

Getting there

Srinagar, 30 minutes from the airport, the last part by boat.

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