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| | The ""iTRAVELMarket" Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Kashmir house boats under threat | Views: 482 | | Mar 15, 2009 5:41 pm | | Kashmir house boats under threat | # | 
Ernie Martin | | I stayed in one of the houseboat's back in '98 on Dal Lake, overlooking the Himalaya's. I stayed for 3 nights in Srinagar, and at that time the insurgency by local militants were quite, but, the presence of the para-military troops were every where. There was some pollution in the lake while I was there.
Kashmiris are very friendly people and easy going. If you want to experience the houseboat on the lake and the city of Srinagar, I suggest you fly from Jammu or Delhi. Stay away taking a bus from Jammu, which will take about 9 to 12 hours (with steep turns on the hills), also depending military security checks for militants. I took the bus and took extra hours into the following day because of nightfall. All the bus passengers stayed at a local hostel, somewhere 100 miles away from Srinagar, and troops were patrolling the streets.
Ernie
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Here is a link to the article and the pictures of the current situation about the houseboats on the lakes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7940087.stm
Cheers,
Ernie Martin
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