Haridwar - The Way of Ganga

I was in the Haridwar recently and it was seen everywhere the clear Ganga Water - River.  

We dipped the holy water and seen lot of temples and enjoyed a lot. My experience in Haridwar during my visit is explained here with some photos taken by me. Hope you will also enjoy this...

First we started on 7th March 2011 from Delhi by Mussoorie express @10.00 pm and reached Haridwar around 7.00 am next day 8th March 2011. On the train itself we met one old man, he knows everything about Haridwar and Rishikesh. He is a regular visitor it seems. With the information gathered from him and have some information from web we proceed to Haridwar.

Ganga River

Sankar Statue in Haridwar



Rope Car to Mansa Devi Temple

First we moved to a Iyappa Temple cottages nearby the Railway station. There are plenty of Share autos are there. They charged Rs.10 per passenger to this Temple. The rooms provided to us is in a Ok Condition and they charged Rs.300 per day for 4 persons. (I think they charged us more as we are new to haridwar). In front of a Temple cottage, some of the Auto drivers are waiting for local tour and they approached us immediately when we arrived to temple. Then we finalised for a local Haridwar trip including morning ganga bath and upto evening Ganga Arathi Rs.800/- (This autos can accomodate 10 persons easily - but we are only 6, anyhow we have to pay Rs.800 for this auto). The auto driver was very pleasing and helpful to us. He first taken us to the Ganga for bathing. There are lot of places are for bathing - named ghats. like birla ghat, sivananda ghat, bramha gund etc., we taken bath in the Birla Ghat. The water was clear and moving with some speed. @ 9 am also the water was very chilled and the steps are slippy. Somebody said don't use soap to bath, it is banned there. We taken bath with cautious. We saw there some peoples are offering flowers with deepam and coconut to ganga matha. Then we left to our room and for breakfast by the same auto.

After finishing breakfast, first we went to Mansa Devi Temple, it can be reachable by Rope car (They charging Rs.48/- per person) and by steap road. We opted for Rope car and take darshan of a Mansa Devi Mandir. There is one more temple here in Haridwar accessible by Rope car is Chandi Devi Temple ( Rope car Charges Rs.80 approx). We have left this because we don't have time and as suggested by the old man met in the train. Then we saw Sankaracharya matt, Geetha Temple, Parad Sivaling at Kankhal.

Parad (Mercury) Sivaling

We also went to Dakshaneswar temple, where the Daksha maharaj made yagna and his duaghter godess parvathi came to quarell for not calling sivasankar for the yagna.



Dakshaneshwar Temple

 

Lord Dakshaneshwar

After Luch we went to some artificial temple in Haridwar. Some Electronic Temples, Pawan Cham Glass Temple, Char dham temple and Bharat matha mandir. In these Pawan dham Glass temple is worth seeing and free entry. The electronic temples and artificial temples made in these area are money minded. Some of the pandits in these temples are asking us to lean to them, they will put thilak in our fore head and pat on our backside and ask us for a dakshana. I don't like these kind of activities in temples. Finally we saw Bharat matha mandir, it is a 7 storey building having lift (charging Re.1/- per person). they will take us to the 7th floor, there from the 7th floor we have to come down by walk and see in each floor the idols of national leaders, sadhus, sanths and devthas.

Electronic Temple

                                                   

Pawan Dham Glass Temple

Radha Krishna at Glass Temple

Uma Shankar at Glass Temple

                                                      

Char Dham Mandir

                                                              

Bharath Matha Mandir

In the evening, we went to Har ki pauri and waited for the famous Ganga Arathi. By 6 pm the people are gathering slowly and by 6.30 the Har ki pauri was fully packed with peoples all along the ganga river steps. After 6.30 pm the Ganga arathi was started and the whole place was became holiest. the seen was very nice and it was worth watching. So if you been in Haridwar don't miss this opportunity to watch this Har ki Pauri Ganga Arathi.

Ganga Matha

Hari ki Pauri / Brahma Kund

Ganga Arathi at Har ki Pauri

                                                         

Ganga River Ariel view in Haridwar

Sadhu/Akori in nude

After that we roaming around the city and In the night we went to our room for rest. Next day we started to proceed Rishikesh.

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