Butts Clermont Houseboats

Srinagar


Butts Clermont moors a handful of genteel old houseboats (dating from 1940) beside its own private Mughal garden. This is where Ravi Shankar taught George Harrison sitar and where many ambassadors and statespeople have stayed, yet the pricey boats aren't particularly luxurious and there are lots of midges.


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