4 Star Luxury Chardham Yatra - Private - 15 Days
- Indian / Jain Meal
- Visit to Akshardham Temple, Delhi
- Visit to Haridwar
- Brahmin Bhoj at Haridwar
- Visit to Mansadevi & Chandidevi Temple
- Kedarnath by Helicopter or Doly / Pony (subject to availibility)
- Travel on your own dates
- Do yatra on your own pace
- Abhishek at Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath & Kedarnath (sujbect to availibility)
- Specially made packages for Family & Friends
- Early departure & stopover in india available
Delhi - Haridwar - Yamunotri - Gangotri - Bardinath - Kedarnath
May to October 2012 (min. 4 pax.)
From £1775 per person
USD / CAD from $2840 (Joining from U.K.)
USD / CAD from $2120 (Joining from Delhi, India)
Day 1: UK- Delhi: Depart UK airport for Delhi.
Day 2: Delhi Sightseeing: Transfer from Delhi airport to hotel. Later visit Akshardham temple.
Day 3: Delhi-Haridwar: Drive to haridwar & visit the Har ki Paudi, Ganga Mandir and the Haricharan Temple & attend an evening aarti at the Har Ki Paudi.
Day 4: Haridwar-Barkot: Post breakfast drive to Barkot.
Day 5: Barkot-Yamunotri – Drive to Phool Chatti via Janki Chatti and Hanuman Chatti. From here, 9 Kms Trek to Yamunotri for which ponies, dandies and kandies are available. Experience the three hot springs. Workship the Divya Shila & the Deity.Trek to Hanuman Chetti & drive back to Barkot.
Day 6: Barkot-Uttarkashi : Drive to Uttarkashi where we see Vishwanath Temple and Ekadash Rudra.
Day 7: Uttarkashi-Gangotri-Uttarkashi : Proceed to Gangotri and after Gangotri Darshan we return to Uttarkashi.
Day 8: Uttarkashi-Guptkashi : Early morning drive to Guptkashi.
Day 9 : Guptkashi-Phata-Kedarnath-Phata(Helicopter)-Rudrapryag : Drive to Phata, where we take Helicopter to Kedarnath.After VIP darshan return back to Phata by Helicopter and further drive to Rudraprayag for overnight stay.
Day 10 : Rudraprayag - Joshimuth : After breakfast, we drive to Joshimuth on our way we come across Three important Confluences – Rudraprayag, Karanprayag & Nandprayag respectivelyReach Joshimuth in the evening.Stay overnight at Hotel.
Day 11: Joshimuth - Badrinath: An early morning drive to Badrinath .Visit the Mana villiage. Vyas Gufa & Bhim Pul. Stay overnight at Badrinath.
Day 12: Badrinath-Srinagar : Early morning drive to Srinagar enroute via Joshimuth and Rudraprayag.
Day 13: Srinagar - Rishikesh : Drive to Rishikesh. Upon arrival check in and later in the afternoon visit Ram Jhula, Luxman Jhula, mandir and ashram. At evening enjoy Ganga Aarti at Triveni Ghat.
Day 14: Rishikesh - Hardwar- Delhi : Drive back to New Delhi with a stopover at Hardwar. Upon arrival check in at the Hotel in Delhi. Overnight in Delhi.
Day 15 : Delhi - Onward : Drop at Delhi airport for onward journey.
Price Includes:
Return economy class flights,
Kedarnath by helicopter or Doli/ Pony at Kedarnath
Full Board First class hotels
Prices based on twin/triple sharing
Air conditioned vehicles
Mineral Water
Price Excludes:
Travel Insurance,
Visa Fees
Any entrance fees and monument charges
Single supplement £ 275,
Any personal expenses
Any other expenses beyond our control
Tip: £15
NOTE: KEDARNATH HELICOPTER IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM MID JUNE TILL END OF AUGUST. OVERNIGHT EXTRA STAY WILL BE ADDED AT KEDARNATH IN THAT CASE
Kedarnath
Kedarnath is a Hindu holy town located in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is a nagar panchayat in Rudraprayag district. The most remote of the four Char Dham sites, Kedarnath is located in the Himalayas, about 3584m above sea level near the head of river Mandakini, and is flanked by breathtaking snow-capped peaks. Kedarnath hosts one of the holiest Hindu temples, the Kedarnath Temple, and is a popular destination for Hindu pilgrims from all over the world, being one of the four major sites in India's Chota Char Dham pilgrimage.
The temple opens on Akshaya Tritiya (April end or first week of May) and closes on Bhai Duj (October end or 1st week of November) due to heavy snowfall and extreme cold weather during winter.
Badrinath
Badrinath temple, sometimes called Badrinarayan temple, is situated along the Alaknanda river, in the hill town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand state in India. It is widely considered to be one of the holiest Hindu temples, and is dedicated to god Vishnu. The temple and town are one of the four Char Dham and Chota Char Dham pilgrimage sites. It is also one of the 108 Divya Desams, holy shrines for Vaishnavites. The temple is open only six months every year (between the end of April and the beginning of November), due to extreme weather conditions in the Himalayan region.
Several murtis are worshipped in the temple. The most important is a one meter tall statue of Vishnu as Lord Badrinarayan, made of black Saligram stone. The statue is considered by many Hindus to be one of eight swayam vyakta keshtras, or self-manifested statues of Vishnu. The murti depicts Vishnu sitting in meditative posture, rather than His far more typical reclining pose.
The temple is approximately 50 ft (15 metres) tall with a small cupola on top, covered with a gold gilt roof. The facade is built of stone, with arched windows. A broad stairway leads up to a tall arched gateway, which is the main entrance. The architecture resembles a Buddhist vihara (temple), with the brightly painted facade also more typical of Buddhism temples. Just inside is the mandapa, a large pillared hall that leads to the garbha grha, or main shrine area. The walls and pillars of the mandapa are covered with intricate carvings.
Badrinath Temple at MorningThe main shrine area houses the black stone image of Lord Badrinarayan, sitting under a gold canopy, under a Badri Tree. There are fifteen more murtis around the temple that are also worshipped. These include murtis of Nara & Narayana, Narasimha (the fourth incarnation of Vishnu), Lakshmi, Narada, Ganesha, Uddhava, Kubera, Garuda (the vehicle of Lord Narayan), and Navadurga. Hard sugar candy, Tulsi, and dry fruits are the typical prasad offered at Badrinath temple.
The Tapt Kund hot sulphur springs just below the temple are considered to be medicinal—many pilgrims consider it a requirement to bathe in the springs before visiting the temple.
Gangotri
Gangotri, the origin of the River Ganges and seat of the goddess Ganga, is one of the four sites in the Char Dham pilgrimage circuit. The river is called Bhagirathi at the source and acquires the name Ganga (Ganges) from Devprayag onwards where it meets the Alaknanda. The origin of the holy river is at Gaumukh, set in the Gangotri Glacier, and is a 19 km trek from Gangotri. Gangotri can be reached in one day's travel from Rishikesh, Haridwar or Dehradun, or in two days from Yamunotri, the first site in the Char Dham circuit. More popular and important than its sister site to the east, Gangotri is also accessible directly by car and bus, meaning that it sees many more pilgrims than Yamunotri.
According to Hindu mythology, Goddess Ganga took the form of a river to absolve the sins of King Bhagiratha's predecessors, following his severe penance of several centuries.
Yamunotri
According to the legend ancient, sage Asit Muni had his hermitage here. All his life, he bathed daily both in the Ganges and the Yamuna. Unable to go to Gangotri during his old age, a stream of the Ganges appeared opposite Yamunotri for him. The temple and the place opens every year on the auspicious day of the Akshaya Tritya, which generally falls during the last week of April, or the first week of May. The temple always closes on the sacred day of Diwali in mid-October - first week of November, with a brief ceremony. The temple staff return to their villages and for the rest of the time the valley is gripped in no-man silence and covered with a white sheet of snow. With the melting of the snow next summer, the temple re-opens to the blissful happiness of thousands of visitors again.
The daughter of the Sun god, Surya and consciousness, Sangya the birth place of the Yamuna is the Champasar Glacier (4,421 m) just below the Banderpoonch Mountain. The mountain adjacent to the river source is dedicated to her father, and is called Kalind Parvat, Kalind being another name of Surya.
Haridwar
It is an important pilgrimage city and municipality in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. The River Ganges, after flowing for 253 kilometres (157 mi) from its source at Gaumukh at the edge of the Gangotri Glacier, enters the Indo-Gangetic Plains of North India for the first time at Haridwar,which gave the city its ancient name, Gangadwara.
Haridwar is one of the first towns where the Ganges emerges from the mountains to touch the plains. The water in the river Ganges is mostly clear and generally cold, except in the rainy season, during which soil from the upper regions flows down into it.
