The blue Ganga

Trip Start Dec 28, 2010
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Trip End Jun 08, 2012


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Where I stayed
Triveni guesthouse (high bank)
(Rishikesh hotels)

Flag of India  , Uttarakhand,
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

After a pleasant journey we arrived in Rishikesh, a small town on the banks of the Ganga. It's so blue, not how you would imagine the Ganges to be at all but then again we are still in the Himilaya.

Over the next few days we hiked to a temple 13km away (all up a very steep mountain by the way), visited the dilapidated Maharishi Ashram, sat and observed evening Pooja, as well as climbed an 8 storey temple ringing more bells than a trapist monk with OCD.

We moved halfway through our stay at Lonely planets Aggarwall house - (good view of the ganga, not clean room, shared bathroom bit of a poo hole for 350Rs) as a horrible shrew of a woman bothered me.

Luckily we met some super cool Poles, Gosia and Michal and they showed where they were staying-a nice cheap clean guesthouse, Triveni (150rs with hot water!) After 4 nights we left Rishikesh and headed for Delhi.Hoping at last to enjoy Indian city life.


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