Srinagar Tulip Garden breaks record with 3.65 lakh tourists visiting this year

Srinagar, Apr 19: Srinagar’s Tulip Garden attracts record-breaking 3.65 lakh tourists in a month
According to Floriculture Officer Tulip Garden Shayiq Rasool, Asia’s largest Tulip Garden in Srinagar, situated on the foothills of Zabarwan, has broken all past records with an extraordinary rush of tourists visiting the garden. The number of tourists visiting the garden near Dal Lake surpassed last year’s record of 3.60 lakh on Tuesday, with a total of 3,65,624 visitors, including 7,902 domestic, 116 foreigners and 71 locals on the day. During the past 30 days, a total of 3,03,870 domestic, 3,154 foreigners and 58,600 locals visited the Tulip Garden, enjoying the mesmerizing nature in the lap of Zabarwan hills near the famous Dal Lake. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tweet praising the beauty of Jammu and Kashmir and the Tulip season on March 24 gave momentum to the flow of tourists visiting the Kashmir valley, especially the Tulip garden on the foothills of Zabarwan in Srinagar. This year, four new varieties of Tulip were imported from Holland as part of over 16 lakh blossomed bulbs, adding more charisma to the garden. The garden also offers free wheelchairs for specially-abled people and senior citizens to move around, and other facilities for visiting tourists.