Gate of Lost Caravans
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Half pushed, half towed, we arrived at the high gate of Kashmiri Serai; that huge open square… surrounded with arched cloisters, where the camel and the horse caravans put up on their return from Central Asia…

J.L.Kipling, 'Lahore As It Was, 1860'

Kashmir, the favorite vale and the usual summer time excursion for the Mughal Kings
Kashmiri Gate faces Kashmir on northern periphery of walled city
The grand Kashmiri serai of Kipling and the caravans are long gone

The passageway leads inside to the busy junction of Kashmiri Bazar and Kotowali Wala Bazar and further ahead to the famous Azam Cloth Market

From here once departed the grand Mughal caravans setting route to Kashmir, many a times led by Jehangir, our king of hunts and pleasure

Not very far from here, across what is left of Ravi, within the green confines of Noor Jehan's Baghe e Dil Kusha, what is now Shahdara rests our only Mughal Emperor buried in Pakistan
The tomb of Jehangir was built by Shahjehan on the banks of Ravi in 1637