Trying a Shikara.

Nagin Lake, Scrinagar, 06-05-1994. Trying a Shikara is definitely not as easy as it might look like. Me in the front, Mo at the end and Lisa in the middle caused quite a bit of amuzement to the locals watching us trying to navigate our way through the lake. Mostly we were going around in circles before we figured out a way to go more or less in a straight line, more of a sig-sag course to be honest. The Hazratbal mosque was nice enough but the place was clowling with soldiers armed to the teeth and wearing bulletproof vests, most of them hiding in sandbag made bunkers surrounded with barbed wire. The area had a really war like feeling with burned out house to add to the scene.