Chashme Shahi, Kashmir

Chashme Shahi Kashmir

Chashme Shahi adalah salah satu dari Mughal Garden yang ada di Srinagar ini. Ianya dibina ketika pemerintahan Shah Jahan. Garden yang terletak di banjaran Zabarwan disamping menampakkan pemandangan Dal Lake ini kelihatan sangat cantik, memukau mata yang memandang.

Chashme Shahi mendapat namanya dari mata air yang telah dijumpai oleh seorang wanita Kashmir yang bernama Rupa Bhawani dimana nama keluarganya adalah Sahib dan nama asal mata air ini disebut Chasme Sahibi.

Chashme Shahi or Chashma i Shahi, also called Chashma Shahi, is one of the Mughal gardens built in 1632 AD around a spring by Ali Mardan Khan, a governor of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as per the orders of the Emperor, as a gift for his elder son Prince Dara Shikoh. The garden is located in the Zabarwan Range, near Raj Bhawan (Governor‘s house) overlooking Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir, India.

Chashme Shahi originally derives its name from the spring which was discovered by the great female saint of Kashmir, Rupa Bhawani, who was from the Sahib clan of Kashmiri Pandits. The family name of Rupa Bhawani was 'Sahib' and the spring was originally called 'Chashme Sahibi'. Over the years the name got corrupted and today the place is known as Chashme Shahi (the Royal Spring).

  4 gambar di bawah ini diambil dari google...

The spring from which Jawaharlal Nehru drank

Waktu tiba ke situ, kami sebenarnya dah sangat letih sebab seharian berada di luar bandar Srinagar dengan perjalanan yang jauh. Jadinya saya pun tidaklah explore mughal garden ni dan cuma duduk bersantai aje dengan grup wanita sementara geng lelaki je yang naik ke atas. Akan cuba explore next time.

Badamwari di Srinagar

Badamwari di Srinagar

Badamwari adalah sebuah taman yang sangat cantik ketika musim bunga. Badamwari ini dipenuhi dengan pokok-pokok Almond. Bunga Almond (badam) lah yang mula-mula akan berkembang mekar bila masuknya Musim Bunga di Kashmir, menjadikan garden ini kelihatan sangat cantik. Memang rugi besar jika anda tidak singgah ke Badamwari itu.

Kalau cuaca cerah, akan kelihatan background dari pintu gerbangnya dengan gunung yang sangat cantik seperti gambar yang saya ambil dari google di bawah ini. Malangnya, waktu saya ke sana, cuaca mendung. Jadi tidak nampaklah background gunung nya itu. Sudah 2 kali saya sampai ke Badamwari, tapi masih tak ada rezeki dapat view macam ni...

cantik sangat kan?

Jika anda melancong ke Kashmir pada bulan hujung Mac-awal April, pastikan anda singgah ke Badamwari kerana di situ terdapat pokok badam yang mengeluarkan bunga yang sangat cantik, berwarna pink dan putih.. samada anda percaya atau tidak, bunganya kelihatan seperti bunga sakura!
Tapi sayangnya, bunga almond ni tidak mekar lama, cuma dalam masa 2 minggu saja...

The early bloom of flowers on Almond trees in the sprawling historic Badamwari garden in Shahr-e-Khaas has become a source of attraction for nature lovers and tourists, alike. Situated on foothills of Koh-e-Maran, the 300 kanals garden was dotted with trees, flowers and cascades providing a soothing experience to the visitors. Historians maintain there was no record to suggest who laid the garden but they say it existed even before the rule of Sultan Zain-ul-Abidin in the 14th century. A well-covered dome in the garden is named after an Afghan ruler, Warris Shah. The bloom on the Almond trees heralded the spring. the garden was revived and formally thrown open for public in 2008

Spring in Kashmir begins with the first bloom of an almond flower.

Spring in Kashmir is beautiful beyond words. It enthrals the visitors and locals alike and heralds the end of the harsh bitter winter. For many decades, the appearance of the almond blossoms in Badamwari meant that the spring was finally there in Kashmir and the sighting was celebrated with much joy. Delicately beautiful, an almond flower with its pale pink petals, resembles a painted umbrella when fully bloomed and it is symbolically connected with Kashmir’s social celebrations. A fully flowering almond tree is a sight to behold too and the old residents of the Kashmir Valley recollect their prettiness with misty eyes. It is because a blooming almond tree meant the beginning of Navreh in Kashmir and in olden times, the Kashmiri Pandits celebrated it as their New Year festival. Those used to be the days when peace, prosperity, and communal harmony existed in the valley and people irrespective of their religion, visited the garden to enjoy the blooming almond trees on Navreh. The Badamwari in Srinagar was the local hotspot for the almond blossom viewing and sadly, just like peace in Kashmir, the garden also got destroyed completely. [maverickbird]

 gambar dari google

  gambar dari google

  

--> Musim Bunga Badam/Almond Flowers

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden

Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden ini adalah satu lagi garden yang cantik yang terdapat di Srinagar, Kashmir. Namun begitu, jarang sekali pelancong sampai ke situ oleh kerana kesuntukan masa. Biasanya, pelancong akan dibawa melawat ke dua buah Mughal Garden ni saja iaitu Shalimar Bagh dan Nishat Bagh dan juga jika musim tulips, akan dibawa ke Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden.

Sesuatu yang bagus tentang garden ini ialah.. tidak dibenarkan couple atau berpasangan yang belum kahwin untuk datang beriadah di sini..

Spring season..

view time end of winter..

cantik sangat kan?

The Jawaharlal Nehru Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, set up in 1969 in memory of India's first prime minister. It contains many types of plants and vegetation. This garden has a collection of about 150,00 ornamental plants and a huge collection of oak varieties. It also has a rare collection of Kashmiri tropical plants.

This garden is located on the side of a mountain and near to Chashma Shahi, Roop Bhavani Temple, etc. Many people from various areas of the world visit this place. It has four main divisions: the Plant Introduction Centre, the Research Section, the Recreational Garden and the Botanical Garden. The entrance is restricted through ticket.