the inspiration for this song comes from Zeppelin's travels through deserts near Morocco (on the west coast of Africa, just to the north of the Sahara, south of spain), not Kashmir which is nowhere near a desert, closer rather to the Himalayan Mountains in India. actually, no one in the band had ever been anywhere near the Kashmir region in India at the time this song was written, but i guess as they drove through the deserts of Morocco they thought that "Kashmir" was a much cooler title than "Morocco", which it is.
the inspiration for this song comes from Zeppelin's travels through deserts near Morocco (on the west coast of Africa, just to the north of the Sahara, south of spain), not Kashmir which is nowhere near a desert, closer rather to the Himalayan Mountains in India. actually, no one in the band had ever been anywhere near the Kashmir region in India at the time this song was written, but i guess as they drove through the deserts of Morocco they thought that "Kashmir" was a much cooler title than "Morocco", which it is.