Kashmir, it has been often said for centuries, is an indefinable beauty. Noted travelers and historians felt it is Nature’s blessing to the universe but failed to describe it appropriately as for them words proved inadequate to define beauties of this precious land, its mountains and valleys. 

Yet, for ages human endeavor has invested efforts to interact with Kashmir’s beauty, explore it and describe and highlight it to the outside world. Almost all explorers with their rich experience and knowledge could not mention any place or spot in the world that was comparable with this beautiful land which according to many historians and geologists was a ‘bottom-land’ in prehistoric times. Kashmir has been often described as the Switzerland of Asia. However, in actual terms the main valleys of Switzerland are like the sideways of Kashmir. Talking of purple hills, dancing seas and clear blue sky of Greece, Young-husband, who had seen both countries, comments “Kashmir has the same blue sky and brilliant sunshine, but its purple hills are on a far grander scale, and if it has no sea, it has lakes and rivers, and still more impressive snowy mountains.