90 Kashmir travelogue: A beginner’s guide to paradise
It’s 4am in the morning, and minus-4 degrees outside. We open the door to the balcony just an inch, and peep out of our hotel room. We want to see the view one last time. The carpet of snow stretched for miles; and the pine trees — dark, ancient green — in the distance, defiant of the cold, moving only to brush the snow off their shoulders now and then. […]