Srinagar, March 26 -- Nearly one lakh visitors including national and foreign tourists have visited Asia's largest Tulip Garden since its opening on March 16 with visitors increasingly showing their confidence to visit the Himalayan valley after last year's Pahalgam terrorist attack had left the sector in chaos.

Officials said that for the past 10 days, nearly 10,000 people have visited the garden every day, around 40% of them from various parts of the country. However, they said that the Iran-US war has affected the overall enthusiasm of tourists to visit the region.

"From March 16 to 24 (nine days), over 88,000 visitors including 35,000 national tourists and 250 foreigners visited the garden. Every day around 4000-5000 national touris...