Old Bazaar

The streets of the Old Bazaar Srinagar are wonderful. one can get lost for hours. tiny little shops selling live chickens, sewing machines, spices, fish and fantastic fabrics. the smells, the colors, the sounds, the people. The Old Bazaar in Srinagar speaks of the rich tradition of Kashmir trade for millennia. Here have come Turks, Arabs, and even Eastern Europeans. its architecture projecting a variety of buildings that you know you saw elsewhere, thousands of miles away. Ottoman wooden houses exactly like those of Safranbolu , near the Black Sea in Turkey.