News
Travel
Asia's largest tulip garden in Srinagar attracts record visitors; expected to beat earlier records

NITN | @notintownlive | 11 Apr 2023, 07:21 am

Asia's largest tulip garden in Srinagar attracts record visitors; expected to beat earlier records Jammu and Kashmir

Image: Pixabay

Srinagar/IBNS:  Asia's largest tulip garden in Kashmir valley was visited by nearly 130,000 tourists during the first ten days since it was opened for the public this year.

Located in the vale of Kashmir (part of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir) and easily visited from Srinagar, the Indira Gandhi Tulip Garden is located in the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain, on the banks of the Dal Lake.

This year, the garden sports nearly1.6 million tulip bulbs of 68 varieties.

According to local media reports, 250,000 visitors including over one thousand foreigners, have visited the garden.

The garden authorities expect the number of visitors this year will break the record of previous years, media reports said.

According to reports, last year, the garden was visited by over three lakh people in one month.
 

Over 300 flights cancelled ...

Tokyo: Airlines were forced to cancel over 300 flights following the collision between a Japan Coast Guard aircraft and a Japan Airlines passenger plane at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday evening even as reports said the plane was cleared to land ahead of the tragedy.

New discount membership clu ...

New Delhi/NITN: Regular flyers on Jazeera Airways, Kuwait’s low-cost carrier, can now avail a host of discounts and benefits by enrolling for the new membership club introduced by the airline, recently.

Air India deploys newly ind ...

Gurugram: Air India, a global airline in India, has initiated the deployment of its recently acquired Boeing 777 aircraft to serve all three non-stop routes from Mumbai to the United States.