Tulip Garden Srinagar

The Tulip Festival displays a large variety of tulips. Large number of tourists comes to the venue to catch the sight of these beautiful tulips. The festivals also feature a number of cultural programs, sale of local handicrafts, Kashmiri folk songs and other forms of arts. On visiting this festival, you will also be able to taste traditional cultural Kashmiri cuisine.

The Tulip Festival is held in Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir. Located in the foothills of Zabarwan range, it overlooks the Dal Lake and offers a breathtaking sight.

One of the best garden to visit in Month of April in Srinagar, Tulip Garden is located in Siraj Bagh area, covering the banks of Dal lake with a colorful carpet of flowers. With an area of around 12 hectares, it is also known as the largest tulip garden in the whole of Asia. The famous Tulip Garden in Srinagar was created in the year 2006-07 by the chief minister of the state, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad. This was done in order to boost tourism in the Kashmir valley. Flaunting hundreds of varieties of Tulips, the enchanting garden sprawls over the foothills of Zabarwan mountain ranges, overlooking the picturesque Dal Lake.

Owing to such a huge spectrum of tulips, the garden acts as a tourist magnet, especially during the blooming months of the flowers. In order to watch the largest collection of freshly germinated colorful tulips, one must schedule his visit between the months of March and May. To the delight of florists, the concerned department of the state also organizes a Tulip festival during March-end every year. Thronging a large number of tourists, the Tulip festival in Srinagar is considered to be amongst the biggest of the events.

Tulip festival in India is south Asia’s largest Tulip festival that has been named after the Indian prime minister of India, the late Indira Gandhi. Tulip festival takes place during the months of March and April and is the prettiest festival that takes place in Kashmir at the Siraj Bagh Chesmahsahi in the capital city of Srinagar. It is known as Indira Gandhi memorial garden. This blooming festival is a real treat to the eyes as the garden is spread over 5 hectares of land at the foothills of Zabarmwan near the Dal Lake.

The garden boasts of 60 varieties of multi-coloured tulips. It resembles a beautiful carpet that has hundreds of colors and provides a heavenly view to the thousands of visitors, national and international. Around 2 million tulip bulbs bloom here and proudly display their beauty to the tourists. The view is simply magnificent and has countless delicate beauties lined in rows to dance with the wind in front of the tourists.

Celebration

The festival was started in 2007 to promote tourism and has been quite successful in attracting people from all over the world. With the onset of spring, people throng to the place to get a view of this magnificent place. Officials here organize various other events along with the tulip festival and provide business for handicrafts for the local craftsmen, offer a wide variety of folk dances and songs that the visitors love to watch. One can also enjoy the different Kashmiri cuisine that is prepared locally and is a favorite among the tourists.

Kashmir is famous for its natural beauty and with the tulips the beauty is enhanced manifolds. Today, tourists are demanding to open the garden ahead of the fixed time and enjoy the view for a longer time. New varieties and new things keep on adding each year. The Tulip festival in Kashmir has been well accepted by the tourists and has become quite an attraction for tourists who love to visit the scenic place of Srinagar.