Category Archives: Kashmir Travel Stories

US Soldier Vaden Carney and his date Pam Rumbold, walking along a path. Looking over the city of Kashmir. Lost in each other and the nature Cigarette time Having a picnic at Mughal Gardens Playful Playing in the water as native children watch. Leaving the houseboat displaying paper mache Kashmir crafts. Walking the streets of […]

10. Photo by Auditya Venkatesh – Hiding from the sun.  9. Photo by Masood Bhat- An old kashmiri boatsmen inspite of snowing is going for his daily work from the interior of Dal lake, Srinagar   8. Photo by Auditya Venkatesh   7. Photo by Auditya Venkatesh   6. Photo of Dal lake by Preity Zinta   5. Photo […]

We at Gyawun analysed the trends for #Gulmarg on Instagram from 2010 till Jan 2017. We found that since 2010 total 52,708 posts have been done with #gulmarg by 10,710 contributors . These got 2,151,059 likes in  and  65,653 comments in total. Below  chart shows how many posts have been posted per month since 2010. The maximum […]

Sheen Woman by Sabah Nargis  Daku by Omar A Kirmani Kashmiri Woman By Molvi Faizan Kashmiri Man Minion by Misbah Iftikhar Traffic Police Snowman by Tufail Wani   Brother by Sehrish Mir Cute Kid by Musaib Gulzar   SRK Snowman   Kashmiri Hen Adil Mubeen Mir, DPS School Teacher Bear Say Hello by Faiz Masudi Kanchet With […]

My name is Bela Desai. I am from Mumbai. It was 10th June 2016 and my birthday. I gifted it to me…from me…an air ticket from Mumbai to Srinagar in coming December. I decided to travel all alone. Though I have two members in my family who belong to army background and it was against […]

Author of this article Nitish Thappa was born in Mahraja Bazaar Srinagar, he did his schooling from Khalsa School Magarmal Bagh and then Biscoe school. He did his bachelors from SSM College, Pattan, Kashmir and currently works in Delhi. The streets are deserted, yet crowded. Crowded by the fears of residents and by the pride […]

My name is Nitin Bafna I am from Mumbai, India. I was on a vacation with my wife and 3 year old daughter in Kashmir in 2015. After spending a good time in Kashmir, we left for Jammu from Pahalgam, Kashmir. But unfortunately on the way as we reached Qazigund our daughter got really sick, […]

It was the Summers of 1976 early June. I was sitting in an Indian Airlines plane travelling to Srinagar from Delhi with my parents and younger brother. Just an hour and 20 minutes flight I was petrified of flying and just wanted to get there so that my vacation could begin. Till then I was […]

We flew from Kerala to Kashmir to stay with Insha’s family. Actually, we were only supposed to stay for a few days, and we ended up canceling our ticket back because we were having such a good time. I don’t even have words for Kashmir. It was by far the best trip I’ve made yet, […]

When I look back to 2015 and recollect all the precious moments, one of them is definitely ‘my second trip to Kashmir’. I visited Kashmir second time in October 2015 with my family. It was a sudden plan. Like any other tourist it was just a holiday or a break from a hectic life but […]

A short film by Ruman Hamdani, featuring Mafaldina Vaina. Ruman Hamdani is a Srinagar based movie maker and Mafaldina is a 26 years old Italian tourist. Watch the video to see what she has to say about Srinagar after being initially skeptic about it.

Dear Kashmir, I came to know about you when I was in Goa. So I made a plan with a friend to visit Kashmir, but my friend changed her mind after hearing about situation in Kashmir. I was disappointed and the thought of travelling alone and that too to Kashmir almost changed my mind and […]