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Dal Lake Shikara Ride

Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
Dal Lake Shikara Ride

Dal Lake Shikara Ride

ScenicDal Lake / Boulevard Road ghats, Srinagar

A hired wooden shikara boat ride on Dal Lake, booked per boat per hour from the numbered ghats along Boulevard Road in Srinagar.

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₹700 per shikara per hour for up to 3 km (J&K Tourism notified rate, per boat and not per person); ₹400 per additional hour; ₹2,700 for a six-hour day
Allow about 1 hour
Your expert’s note
The notified rate is per boat, so four people split it. Boatmen at the ghats routinely open at ₹2,000-3,000, so fix the hourly rate and the route before you step in and ask to see the department rate card. The last notification published in full is the 2023 one quoted here; later upward revisions have been reported but not verifiably published.
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