Kashmir is back on the tourist map – in pictures

Gathering weeds to make a floating garden on Dal Lake
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The boat is the only form of transport for the Dal Lake community. The famous floating market is where locals meet on their shikaras to buy and sell vegetables …
Photograph: Jonny Bealby, courtesy of Wild Frontiers

And flowers, too
Photograph: Jonny Bealby, courtesy of Wild Frontiers

Local boys jump into of Dal Lake to beat Srinagar's summer heat Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA

Fresh from the tandoor – a bakery on Dal Lake
Photograph: Jonny Bealby, courtesy of Wild Frontiers

With tourists staying away from Kashmir, most of the houseboats on Dal Lake have remained empty for years Photograph: Jeremy Horner/Corbis

Many of the intricately carved houseboats were built in the early 1900s for the Raj as summer retreats from the heat of the Indian plains Photograph: Frank Bienewald/Corbis

A man returns from the market on his shikara …
Photograph: Jonny Bealby, courtesy of Wild Frontiers

And paddles past the Hazratbal Shrine, Srinagar, which Muslims believe contains a hair of the prophet Muhammad
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Chowkidars at Shah Hamdan Mosque in Srinagar
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Old houses overlooking the Jhelum river in Srinagar
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Rickshaws in Srinagar's medieval old town
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