Lotus flowers and dirty dogs.

Apart from shikaras and house boats the lake is full with ltus flowers and water lillies. With summer approaching fast and the sun out in force, there are more of these beautiful water flowers appaering ev ery day, amazing. The lotus flowers open up early each morning when the sun comes up behind the horizon and close again at nightfall, a true wonder of nature!!! The kashmiris cultivate their vegetables on small floating gardens, collecting dead waterplants from the lake they use as fertiliser. In short, Dal Lake is really worth my coming here on this long overnight bus from Jammu. Scrinagar on the other hand is dirty, polluted, smelly and full with heavily armed indian soldiers referred to as ``dirty dogs`` by the kashmiris.