it is best attempted between mid-July and mid-September —and is widely regarded as the most scenic trek in all of India.There are treks, and then there are transformations. The Kashmir Great Lakes Trek belongs firmly in the second category. For seven consecutive days you walk through a landscape so extravagant in its beauty — glacial lakes shimmering in emerald and cobalt, meadows blanketed with wildflowers, ridgelines dusted with fresh snow — that you start to question whether any of it is real.