Shikara Ride in Srinagar

Experience the enchanting lakes of Kashmir with Shikara rides

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Best time to visit
Oct - Mar
Ideal Duration
3-4 Days
Visa
Not Required
Starting from
Rs. 5,599

Website

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  • Hills
  • Ideal for families
  • Sightseeing

About Shikara Ride in Srinagar

Enjoying A Shikara Ride In Kashmir

Apart from leisure, Shikara rides in Kashmir are also used for transportation, fishing and seaweed harvesting by the locals. There are tons of handicrafts and flowers that are sold on these boats and if you’re planning a ride on one, try out the floating market. Floating calmly in a Shikara, you’ll also be able to enjoy watching birds such as pariah kites and the white breasted kingfisher.

Spots To Enjoy A Shikara Ride In Kashmir

The Dal and Nigeen lakes primarily make this ride worthwhile as one can relax. Wular lake is another popular spot among locals. From the calmness and serenity of shikara rides in Kashmir, down to the adventure of paragliding and parasailing, there are many ways to enjoy the rewards of nature. Combine all of this with the most breathtaking views, scrumptious meals and the warm hospitality of the locals even on the coldest days of winter, and you will enjoy a holiday that is hard to forget in this lifetime. A visit to Kashmir and a calm shikara ride will do much to ease the stress of daily life.

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Lokeshdevghare's 5 days trip to Srinagar

Firstly, the itinerary provided was well-planned and covered some of the most stunning destinations in the region, including Srinagar, Gulmarg, Pahalgam. The transportation arrangements were comfortable, and the vehicle was clean and well-maintained. Our car Driver was knowledgeable, friendly, and made the experience even more enjoyable by sharing interesting insights about the local culture and history. The accommodations were generally good, though a few could benefit from better maintenance. For instance for Pahalgam stay. However, the locations of the hotels were excellent, offering beautiful views of the surrounding landscapes. The food provided during the trip was delicious, and it was a great introduction to Kashmiri cuisine. However, I would suggest offering more variety, especially for travelers with dietary restrictions. Overall, it was a memorable experience, and I appreciate the effort your company put into organizing the trip. I look forward to traveling with you again and hope the points mentioned will help enhance future tours. Thank you for making this trip special!

Lokeshdevghare Bengaluru

Arnav's 6 days trip to Srinagar

Kashmir is full of scams. Be it pony ride, or shikara or even some union cabs. Complementary one hour Shikara ride is just an eye catcher, when you go to the ghats which ofcourse your travel agent will decide for, you get to near that you can only take a good peaceful ride only if you are ready to pay a minimum of 2k. Else you can only go max of a 100m which will hardly take 20mins. The rest 40 mins you will be sitting still and get pestered by hawkers selling Kahwa or sometimes by photographers. Pony ride at Pahalgam is the biggest scam. While your cab driver will be assisting you to negotiate with the pony owners he actually is trying to get cut. Same with cabs at Sonmarg. Now let's come to the good part Hotels Dewan Vintage gulmarg Of robusta retreat Were seriously good With good service and rooms as per the prices respectively. While Eden at Pahalgam had a great room but unfortunately pathetic service. Buffet dinner and breakfast being a disaster where you have to wait to even get plates or bowls. Then for every dish you need to ask to refill them. Breakfast was the worst where we needed to literally wait for the paratha and omelette because all the items were over and paratha was the only item we got. I would like to say that our driver was knowledgeable and was helpful. The vehicle provided was good.

Arnav Biswas

Vrfshah's 6 days trip to Srinagar

Hotels provided by agent was genuine enough and was given good amount of choices to choose from. Though could have been better always specially the one in Srinagar where we spent 03 nights. Can provided was in perfect new shape only issue with cab was driver driving way too slow and was inexperienced not related to driving but related to points, places to roam at. Driver was not aware about proper points detailing and was lacking bit of experience in terms of giving accurate info and details to passengers travelling, these caused us to pay at places where we actually did not need to pay. Agency has vast experience of handling customers no doubts in that part but there is definite scope of improvement at parts of arranging better transportations. 1. Katra Vaisnodevi 2. Pahalgam stay at hotel (Best of all places we stayed) 3. Srinagar Shikara Ride 4. Srinagar Local Sight seeing (Lalchowk and shopping)

Vrfshah Mumbai

Jayesh's 6 days trip to Srinagar

Overall experience great and specialy travel agent quick response and all arrangements of all things Gulmarg stay

Jayesh Kambliya New delhi

Siddharth's 7 days trip to Srinagar

It has been my second trip with Travel Triangle. Same wonderful experience with TT. Excellent service and issue resolution. I have already referred TT to many of my friends. Hope you maintain the same service quality and standards.

Siddharth M Delhi

Amit's 7 days trip to Srinagar

Nice and memorable experience but driver always recommend his recommendation own discount scammer place visit and buy Snowflake and hospitality of kasmir mind-blowing

Amit Khalani Ahmedabad

Suraj's 5 days trip to Srinagar

Hotels provided in Pahalgam and gulmarg were good but in srinagar, The hotel Dar rehman was below par. Rooms were small, not cleaned, in one room there was no hot water and in other room every outlet was having boiled water even in jet spray. Extra beddings were not comfortable at all. We asked them to replace the extra bedding but they did not replace it and said that's all they have got. Blankets were not clean and after repeated requests to travel agency they did not changed the room or hotel. Travel agency were also not responding on times. And in the end when we asked them to drop at pathankot in place of Jammu, they asked for rupees 10000 for just 100 km. So overall Kashmir is very beautiful place but our experience with Travel agency and hotels were mixed. Won't recommend the agency to others they even charged extra for our child even after mentioning in the itenary and denied accepting that the child was included at all.

Suraj Goyal Jodhpur

Rikshita's 8 days trip to Srinagar

We an amazing trip, all the places were planned very well had a nice driver very friendly his name was sohail. I was not happy on the halfboard dinners as everywhere we got chicken and rice all 7 days no other choice if nonveg. Othwse we had an excellent experience and hv also shared contacts to few friends who hv already asked about the planners. Thank you so much. Gulmarg welcoming us with snowfall

Rikshita Kochi

Sraoabhilash's 5 days trip to Srinagar

The cab driver and travel agent were amazing people

Sraoabhilash Bengaluru

Sripad's 6 days trip to Srinagar

Hermosa trip planned and arranged our holiday very well

Sripad DB Bengaluru

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FAQ's of Srinagar

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The Shikara ride in Srinagar is absolutely safe to enjoy, because Dal Lake is not very deep and the also, the shikara is rowed very slowly so that visitors can take in the breathtaking beauty surrounding them easily.

The average shikara ride lasts for around an hour but if you want to prolong it, you can simply pay the oarsmen for the extra time.

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