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Uttarakhand
A Vishnu temple that anchors both the national Char Dham and the Chota Char Dham circuits.
Chandi Devi stands on Neel Parvat, the eastern summit of the Sivalik hills at the southern edge of the Himalaya, above Haridwar.
Devprayag is the most sacred of the Panch Prayag — the five holy confluences of Uttarakhand — where the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers merge to form the…
The revered birthplace of the holy River Ganga and the second shrine in the Chota Char Dham circuit.
One rock in the middle of the Kosi, with the shrine sitting sixty feet above the riverbed on top of it: that is Garjiya Devi, 14 km north of Ramnagar on the…
An ancient holy city where the Ganges emerges into the Indo-Gangetic plains, world-known for its evening Ganga Aarti at Har Ki Pauri.
One of the highest and most revered Sikh shrines in the world, next to a glacial lake surrounded by seven mountain peaks.
Kedarnath, set at 3,583 metres against a backdrop of snow peaks and the Mandakini valley, is among the holiest of the twelve Jyotirlingas and a cornerstone of…
A hilltop shrine above Haridwar, on the Bilwa Parvat spur of the Sivalik Hills, and one of the five Panch Tirth a pilgrim in the city is meant to cover.
Famed globally as the 'Yoga Capital of the World', this crowded, restless city on the Ganges blends ancient spirituality with high-adrenaline adventure sports.
Badrinath is the one everyone means. It heads a group of seven Vishnu temples in the Alaknanda valley, with Adi Badri, Bhavishya Badri, Yogadhyan Badri…
Surkanda Devi is a hilltop shrine near Dhanaulti in Tehri Garhwal, at roughly 2,756 metres, and the height does the work: the Himalayan ranges lie open in a…
The sacred source of the Yamuna River and the first stop of the Chota Char Dham pilgrimage circuit in Uttarakhand.
