Kashmir Poetry & Literature Tour

• Upon arrival in Srinagar, our representative will welcome you and escort you to your houseboat or hotel.

• Check in, freshen up, and get ready to visit your first tourist spot.

• Start with a walk around the scenic Boulevard Road, offering views of Dal Lake and the Zabarwan Mountain Ranges.

• Enjoy a 2-hour Shikara ride on Dal Lake; capture photos of the mountains and the beautiful lotus flowers on the lake.

• Return to your houseboat or hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

• Morning visit to Khanqah-e-Moula, one of the oldest shrines, associated with Persian scholars and sufi saints who influenced Kashmiri poetic thought.

• Visit Pandrethan Temple ruins and explore the mystical verses of Lal Ded (14th century), who used poetry to express philosophy.

• Afternoon storytelling walk in Srinagar’s old city, where oral traditions, riddles, and folk tales have been passed down for centuries.

• Evening recitation of Vakhs of Lal Ded and Shruks of Nund Rishi in a quiet garden setting.

• Overnight in Srinagar.

• Drive to Ganderbal & Sonamarg region where Habba Khatoon, the 16th-century poetess-queen, spent part of her life.

• Visit Habba Khatoon Spring in Sonamarg and learn about her tragic love story with Yusuf Shah Chak, immortalized in verse.

• Lunch in a local village home, where you will hear folk ballads and riddles (pahel) performed in Kashmiri.

• Return to Srinagar for an evening at leisure or a session on Persian poetry in Kashmir.

• Overnight in Srinagar.

• Morning visit to University of Kashmir / Cultural Academy (subject to availability) for an interactive session with local writers, poets, or professors.

• Explore Kashmir’s manuscript collections and Persian calligraphy.

• Afternoon at Shalimar Garden, where Mughal emperors once invited poets to perform. Reading session of modern Kashmiri poets like Rehman Rahi, Dina Nath Nadim.

• Farewell Kashmiri Shaayari Night — a live performance of poetry, music, and storytelling.

• Overnight in Srinagar.

• Conclude your Tour.

• Have a healthy breakfast at your hotel in Gulmarg.

• Depart for Srinagar.

• Our representative will accompany you to the Srinagar railway station or airport.

• Begin your journey back home.