Forget hotels -- houseboats are the key accommodation when visiting the India-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The conflict-fraught region is making a tourism comeback, with the number of tourists doubling to 2 million in the past year.
Many of these tourists flock to scenic Dal Lake and the adjoining Nagin Lake in the summer capital, Srinagar.
On the water are more than 1,200 anchored wooden boats. Some of these are floating hotels, decked out to the max to attract tourists.
Looking like life-sized dollhouses, these boat hotels have an early 20th century British motif mixed with lots of Indian chintz.
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