Kedarnath is one of the sacred char dhams for the followers of Hinduism, the others being Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yaunotri. Kedarnath standing at an altitude of 3584m above sea level is guarded by mighty Himalayas. Apart from strong religious significance, Kedarnath in Garhwal region features nmatched natural beauty. The snow capped mountains and alpine forests create a whole new world altogether. Leisure day at Rishikesh will make a perfect Combination of adventure, trekking and leisure as well.
As a part of new normal we will follow all the necessary guidelines social distancing, sanitized vehicle and fresh food. As a part of long journey we skipped some food also, but you will get required nutrition as per itinerary and altitude.
Short itinerary
Day 1 – Hometown to Haridwar journey
Day 2 – Haridwar Arrival and Night hotel stay
Day 3 – Haridwar to Sonprayag, hotel stay in Sitapur
Day 4 – Drive to Gaurikund 5km, trek to Kedarnath (18km trek/helicopter/ponies)
And Kedarnath stay
Day 5 – Trek back to Gaurikund & Night stay in Sonprayag
Day 6 – Sonprayag to Rishikesh
Day 7 – Free day in Rishikesh till noon, Depart from Rishikesh
Day 8 – Back to Hometown
Gujarat / Delhi / Mumbai / Pune /Haridwar
1 Hour Before Departure Time
Under some extraordinary circumstance, your trek may end a day earlier or start a day later. This may become necessary due to inclement weather, snow and ice conditions, political restrictions, or any other cause. In the event of a change, postponement or delay, participants have no right to refund of the trek (in whole or in part) or other compensation for any injury, loss or damage. Trek fee is not charged broken down in terms of days but is a composite fee for the whole trek.
• Journey towards Haridwar from your hometown by train/flight
• Haridwar arrival in the afternoon
• Free time in haridwar, Dinner and night hotel stay
• Reach at Rishikesh before 7am, the journey towards Sonprayag (Sitapur) will start at 7am
• Total distance of journey will be 212km which will took 10 hours
• Stay and dinner at Sitapur hotel.
Meals – Dinner & breakfast
• Get up early in morning at 5am
• Breakfast early in the morning. After breakfast drive 5km Sonprayag to Gaurikund from ‘compulsory local sharing cab’.
• From gaurikund our trek will begin which is approximately 18km to kedarnath temple.
• Kedarnath valley is surrounded by high mountains, glaciers and waterfalls, reach kedarnath before 5pm in evening, spent your precious time nearby temple and attend the evening “Aarti” or prayer at the temple, it’s quite cold at night here.
• Overnight stay just near to the temple in a hotel on a sharing basis.
Meals – Dinner & breakfast
• In the morning the temple doors are open at 5am, you can see the golden rays of the rising sun falling on the temple, we must stand in the queue for our turn to worship (for darshan) to go inside the temple, many times due to heavy crowed the queue got longer, from this longer queue our everyone’s next schedules get late.
• So all we have to try to finish our worship before 7am, our breakfast will be ready at 7am, we have to check out our hotel after visitng the Kal Bhairav temple
• And after we will start our trek towards gaurikund, we shall reach gaurikund before 4pm,
• After reaching Gaurikund we will start our journey towards Rishikesh
• Night stay in hotel at Rishikesh
Meals – Dinner & breakfast
• Breakfast and relax yourself in Rishikesh campsite
• You can go for river rafting(additional)or market visit
• Have bonfire at night and dinner.
Meals – Dinner & breakfast
• In the morning, after breakfast drive to Haridwar
• Set up in trains from Haridwar to Gujarat
• Overnight journey
• Journey ends with sweet memories and get back to your hometown