Kashmir Autumn Tour Package: 6 Days Chinar Season

What we work through with you

1. Your dates and priorities

   Tell us when you want to visit Srinagar & Pahalgam, Kashmir, who is travelling and what you would change in the outline below.

2. The route and pace

   We discuss the 6D / 5N starting itinerary, your preferred stays and how much you want to fit in. Any changes depend on availability and are agreed in your written plan.

3. Your written quote

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The route we start from

These are the stages published for this trip. A stage can cover part of a day or several days; it is not a separate travel day.

1. Stage 01

   Arrive

   Fly into Srinagar in the narrow window, roughly late October into November, when the chinar trees turn. An hour on the water to Char Chinar, the island with four of them, is the right first move: it sets the palette for everything that follows.

2. Stage 02

   Golden Gardens

   Nishat Bagh at first light, before the coaches and while the mist is still on the lake, which is the shot the whole trip is built around. The old city in the afternoon: Jamia Masjid with its deodar pillars, the shrines, and the bakeries that have been there for generations.

3. Stage 03

   Saffron & Apples

   Pampore in the morning, where the saffron crocus flowers for about two weeks a year and whole families are out in the fields picking by hand. Each flower gives three threads, which explains the price better than any label. Lunch in an apple orchard afterwards, in season and heavy with fruit.

4. Stage 04

   Pahalgam

   Across to Pahalgam through the willow groves. The Lidder valley in autumn is amber rather than green, and Betaab valley at the top of it is the place to spend the last hour of light with the river running through poplars that have all turned at once.

5. Stage 05

   Slow Return

   A slow return along the edge of Dachigam, which is the last bastion of Kashmir's hangul deer and is worth the drive even without a permit for the interior. Back to the lake for a final kahwa, which is green tea with saffron, cardamom and almond, and is the correct drink for this weather.

6. Stage 06

   The Return

   Fly home with a full memory card. Five nights timed to a fortnight that does not repeat, in a valley that spends the rest of the year being photographed in green by people who did not know about this.

What this trip lists

Use these inclusions and exclusions when reviewing your quote. The displayed price starts from ₹23,999 per person; your written quote confirms the total for your dates and arrangements.

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