Yoga Capital Rishikesh

                      Yoga Nagri Rishikesh

Rishikesh is an ancient and holy town in Uttarakhand and it is situated at 409 meters above sea level at foothills of Great Himalaya this holy town is 35 km away from Haridwar.

 Rishikesh has beautiful view with kuah green jungle and it has confluence of Chandrabhanga and Ganga. Main attraction of Rishikesh is great and holy river Ganga which runs rapidly through the city. Rishikesh is Yoga capital so people from the whole world come in Rishikesh to practice Yoga. Rishikesh is holy town as well and if you visit here so you will get lot of Ashrams and Gurukuls.

 Every year during the March month one week long International yoga festival is hosted in Rishikesh.

If we see it's importance in pilgrimage so Chota char Dham Yatra starts from here. Per year thousands of people come in Rishikesh for spiritual relief, learn Yoga peace and adventure games. It is believed that if you do meditation in Rishikesh so you will get Moksha( get rid from the cycle of death and rebirth).

Apart from Yoga and spirituality Rishikesh is also a tourism hub for adventure lovers like River rafting, Camping, trekking and bungee jumping.

 

Rishikesh is also known as the white water rafting capital of India.

 Two famous jhulas are in Rishikesh and these are on the name of lord Rama and his brother Lakshman and these are one of the famous places to visit in Rishikesh

 Rishikesh is divided loosely in many parts such as Rishikesh, Ram Jhula (Shivanand Nagar), Muni Ki Reti, Lakshman Jhula or Tapovan and Swarg Ashram, Pashulok Barrage, Dhalwala, 14 Bigha and Shisham Jhari.

From Ram Jhula you can get boat or walk to the river side. At second side of Jhula is known as Swarg Ashram lot of big Ashrams are here like 

Swarg Ashram, Gita bhawan and Parmarth Niketan. 

In every evening ghats are full of people for Ganga Aarti and people enjoy this.

 The small sparkling lights floating lamps, river Ganges and auspicious atmosphere creates such a magnificent view and feeling that can attract anyone to join the prayer even the visitors from outside India who can't understand the vedic songs.

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