Achabal Gardens

Achabal Gardens is a small Mughal garden in the town of Achabal, Anantnag district, at the south-eastern end of the Kashmir Valley. Nur Jahan, wife of the emperor Jahangir, built it around 1620, and Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara remodelled it between about 1634 and 1640. When it decayed, Gulab Singh rebuilt it in reduced form, and today it is open to the public.

Its chief feature is a waterfall dropping into a pool. The garden is fed by a spring that wells up at several points at the foot of a low spur thick with deodars, at one place gushing from a fissure wide enough for a person. The spring is said to be the river Bringhi reappearing after vanishing underground at Wani Divalgam; legend says chaff thrown into the river there came out at Achabal.