Floating Vegetable Market Of Kashmir

SRINAGAR, KASHMIR- AUGUST 28: Kashmiri men gather with their boats laden with vegetables at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake at dawn on August 28, 2017 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. Every morning Dal dwellers visit the floating vegetable market, at Guder, in the centre of the lake at the crack of dawn, with their boats laden with vegetables that supply different parts of the city. Most of the produce sold here is grown in floating gardens on the Dal Lake. The rich ecosystem of this wetland produces plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers and, Nadru or (lotus roots Nelumbo nucifera, a savoured delicacy of Kashmir people) etc. The haggling and exchange all last hardly an hour, soon after everyone disappears as if the market never existed. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)