Tulip Garden

The world-renowned and largest tulip garden in Asia, which opened its doors to tourists on March 23, welcomed over two hundred thousand visitors from across the globe in just two weeks. Last year, nearly three hundred seventy-two thousand tourists explored the tulip garden. Anticipations are high that this year's tourist influx will surpass previous records. Known as 'Siraj Bagh' in Urdu and 'Gulle Lala' in the local language, the Tulip Garden is nestled at the foothills of the 'Zabarwan' mountains, adding to its allure. Tourists often liken the beauty of Kashmir to that of Switzerland or the Netherlands.

Kashmir's Indira Gandhi Tulip Garden opens for public

The Indira Gandhi Tulip Garden, Asia’s largest tulip garden, ensconced between Dal Lake and the Zabarwan hills here opened for the public on March 19. Besides 15 lakh tulips of various colours and hues, the garden, also known as Siraj Bagh, has other spring flowers, such as hyacinths, daffodils, muscari and cyclamens, on display.

Asia's largest Tulip garden in Kashmir blooms to greet visitors

The garden is spread over 30 hectares in the foothills of snow-clad Zabarwan Range. This year, the garden houses 15 lakh tulips of 62 varieties.

In pics | Thousands of tulips cut down in Japan to discourage crowds amid coronavirus outbreak

A park in Japan razed more than 100,000 tulips to comply with social-distancing norms to help control the spread of coronavirus.