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DAL LAKE, SRINAGAR

This lovely lake lies to the east of the city at the foot of the Shridhara (Zabarwan) mountain. The Shankaracharya hill is to the south and Hari Parbat on its west. The lake is 6.3 Kms and is divided by causeways into four parts; Garibal, Lokutdal, Boddal and Nagin. Lokutdal and Boddal each have an island in the center, called Rup Lank and Sona Lank respectively. Rup Lank is also known as Char Chinari. The Dal is Srinagar's major life-support system with its wide variety of marine life: fish, lotus roots, plants and floating gardens.

The Dal and the Nagin lakes with their houseboats and shikaras were major tourist destinations in the 1970s and 1980s before trouble in the region started discouraging tourists. The tourist boom, and the lakes and waterways of Kashmir, strongly affected the population of Kashmir. Tourists' fascination with houseboats led to the creation of a large number of luxurious floating hotels. The increase in tourism also had its downsides. Most of the lakes in Kashmir have been formed from ancient oxbows created by the Jhelum river as it meandered across the valley floor. The present lakes are only a shrunken shadow of their former selves. The Dal Lake has shrunk in the past 50 years to half its size, from 22 sq. km. to about 11 sq. km.

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