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ROUTE PLAN & HOTELS FOR CHAR DHAM YATRA 2020

Char Dham Yatra 2020

Yamunotri Dham :

Yamunotri Route Map: Rishikesh — Narendra Nagar — Chamba — Brahmkhal — Barkot — Synanchatti- Ranachatti- Hanuman Chatti — Phool Chatti –JankiChatti — Yamunotri

Hotels in the Yamunotri Route: Generally, devotees cease their first day-long journey of 180 Km at Barkot where there are some good set of deluxe hotels i.e. Nirvana Camp resort, Pavani Resort, hotel divine, Hotel DevBhoomi, Chauhan Annexe. There are few decent budget hotels also i.e. Riya Residency, Camp Veda, Hotel Aditya Palace, Diya Raj, Hotel Hill Queen

At Synachatti, GMVN rest house is available and Hotel Dipin and Hotel Himalaya at the budget category. There are plenty of budget hotels atRanachatti and at Jankichatti. Sachin residency, hotel Chauhan, Hotel KirshnaLok, Hotel Ganga Yamuna Complex are at Ranachatti.

At Jankichatti, some of the decent budget hotels are Pushpanjali, Hotel Bahunguna Palace, Hotel Arvind Annex, AthithiNiwas, Utsav Palace & Mandakini.

Gangotri Dham:

Gangotri Route Map: Brahmkhal — Uttarkashi — Netala — Maneri — Gangnani- Harsil–Gangotri

Hotels in the Gangotri Route:

Brahmkhal has a very limited number of hotels. Only Krish Motel which is a budget hotel has huge room inventory and the rooms are affixed with basic facilities. Rest all another hotel like Hotel Dhruv, Hotel Brahmaputra, Hotel Satpal are of an economy category.

At Uttarkashi, the deluxe hotels like 5 Element, Shivlinga, GMVN, Sahajvilla, Radhika Palace, have been catering the pilgrims with their good services from last many years and are entwined with all necessary amenities.-There are wide option of budget hotels like Kundan Palace/Laxmi Palace, Satyam Complex, Shree Niwas, Shiv Ananda, Shiv Shakti, Govind Palace, Hotel Everest, Hotel Ashirwad, Hari Om and many more.

Netala is also halting-place on Gangotri Route because it has an array of all category hotels– deluxe, budget and economy. The Deluxe hotels are Mahima resort, Ganga View, Geetanjali.

-There are few well-kept budget hotels like Bhagirathi residency Hotel Krishna Villa, Hotel Hari Om, Hotel Devansh, Astha, Mankameshwar, hotel Onkar residency, RK Heritage, Vishwaroop residency etc.

At Gangnani, the hotels are mostly of an economy category.

Harsil is another good lodging point at Gangotri Route. It has deluxe hotels like Himalayan Nature resort, Chardham camp, GMVN tourist Bungalow, Harsil retreat, Sunder homestay, Himayalan Eco Lodge etc. Similarly, at budget category also, we have hotel Madhuban, Mini Swiss, Rashila Bhawan, Skylark etc.

At Gangotri, pilgrims will find the budget & economy type of accommodation. GMVN, Hotel Taposthali, Shiv Ganga, Tapovan Hotel, Hotel Purohit, Hotel Manisha, Hotel Bagri Guesthouse, Hari Ganga Smiti are few of them.

Kedarnath Dham :

Kedarnath Route Map: Rudraprayag- Guptkashi — Phata- Rampur — Sitapur — Sonprayag — Gaurikund — Kedarnath

Hotels in the Kedarnath Route:

Rudraprayag — GMVN, Monal Resort, Sachin International, Jwalpa Palace, Samrat, Pushdeep Grand are renowned hotels who offer good lodging facilities to their patrons. There are budget hotels also like Shristhi Choice, Bhagirathi Lodge, Deepak Guesthouse, Bhagatsingh resort, Hotel Aradhana who has been catering many pilgrims during yatra season.

Guptkashi has many pocket-friendly hotels like Raj Hans Tourist Lodge, Vishwanath Tourist Lodge, Purohit Tourist Lodge, Mritunjya Palace, Vishwanath Residency, Hotel Mandakini, Himalayan Tourist Lodge etc.

The deluxe hotels are widely available on Kedarnath route from Guptkashi which are sprawled till Sitapur. Few of them are Kailash residency, Himalayan Comfort resort, Kedar river retreat, Kedar Valley resort, Kedar Heights Heli resort, Village Retreat, Ghughuti resort, Kedar camp Resort, Buransh Heli Resort, Camp Nirvana, Shivalik Valley, Kedar Resorts etc.

Budget hotels are Raj Hans, Mritunjaya Palace, Hotel Shubham, Raj Hans Tourist Lodge, Hotel Panchwati, hotel New Vishwanath , Hotel Nimantran, Hotel Paradise, Hotel Triple ‘AAA’, Hotel Shree Hari & Restaurant, Hotel New Gangaputra, Vishnu Palace, Shiva Residency, Sunil Lodge, Hotel Jagat Raj, Hotel Giriraj, New Annapurna hotel etc.

Both places i.e. Sonprayag and Gaurikund, there are only economy hotels.

Badrinath Dham :

Badrinath Route Map: Kedarnath — Rudraprayag — Karnaprayag — Nandaprayag — Chamoli — Birahi — Pipalkoti — Joshimath — Badrinath

Hotels in Badrinath Route:

Karnaprayag — Hotel Shri Krishna Palace, Geeta Bhawan Lodge, Hotel The Kedar Dev’s, Hotel Park deep & Kamlesh Restaurant, Hotel River View & Restaurant, Hotel Swastik are some of the hotels at Karanprayag.

Nandaprayag — At Nandaprayag, there are limited good hotels like Hotel Shubh Yatra, Saket Resort, Hotel Himalayan Resort.

At Chamoli, Nirmal Palace and hotel heaven provide decent accommodation facility. Else, the pilgrims can find good hotel option at Birahi and Pipalkoti

Birahi — DNB Tourist Lodge, Hotel Rose Palace are 02 appropriate hotels for night halt.

Pipalkoti — Hotel Sudarshan Palace & restaurant, Hotel Le Meadows, Hotel Mount Inn, Hotel & restaurant Dhauli Ganga, Hotel Shivlok, Hotel Welcome & Himalayan Restaurant, Hotel Him Ananda, Hotel Matra Chhaya & Restaurant, Hotel Rudraksha Palace are some fine accommodation provider hotels at Pipalkoti.

Joshimath: Joshimath has a wide range of hotels available at all categories. Tattva, Auli D, Panchvati Inn, Himalayan Abode, Sapphire, Hotel Auli D, Grand Kailash, Hotel Dronagiri, Malari Inn etc.

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The ghosts of a literary Indian hill-station that haunt the writers of the present

“All hill-stations have their share of ghost stories” writes journalist Sheela Reddy. “But the Doon must be the only spot that can boast of so many writers, living and dead, who have turned their home into their muse.”

The Doon is a quiet valley of hamlets in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is home to a nearly 200-year-old English literary tradition and many Victorian styled decaying structures. Of all its little townships, Mussoorie and Landour comprise what is arguably the most fertile literary territory in the country.

Well-known writers from the valley include the legendary octogenarian author Ruskin Bond; historian Ganesh Saili; Stephen Alter with his warmhearted recollections of an American boyhood in the Indian hills and intrepid romances; the travel writer and spiritualist Bill Aitken; and the thespian-turned-essayist Victor Banerji.

Around the mid-1820s, Mussoorie became of the first sanatorium in British India. It was established by Captain Frederick Young, founder of the Sirmour Rifles regiment, who also sowed the first potato seeds in the valley.

While Rudyard Kipling seemed to be more partial towards his beloved Simla, Victorian writers such as Emily Eden, Fanny Parkes, John Lang and Andrew Wilson gave us numerous literary and epistolary writings on Mussoorie.

Most of them became characters in the ever-expanding folklore of the valley. Some turned into the endeared ghosts that are said to haunt the region.

Rokeby Manor Gate in the snow. Paul Hamilton/Flickr

The past and its apparitions

From time to time, the Doon’s literary and historical legends emerge to posthumously assume the mantle of the guardian of the valley’s innermost secrets. And current-day writers have ensured that these secrets are well-preserved in the splurge of literature that the hill-station has produced in the past two decades.

In 1964, Ruskin Bond discovered the grave of John Lang in the Camel’s Back cemetery. Lang was an Anglo-Australian-Indian barrister, who had opposed the Doctrine of Lapse in the Indian courts.

The Doctrine of Lapse was a policy of annexation promulgated by Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor General of India, which decreed that any Indian state whose ruler had either died without a male heir or was ruled by an incompetent leader would be annexed by the British Empire. Since the discovery of his grave, Lang has been a standard feature in the Doon’s literary musings.

John Lang with Nana Saheb. Illustration from Lang’s book ‘Wanderings in India and other sketches of life in Hindostan’ (1858).

Another legendary character was Frederick (Pahari) Wilson, also known as the Raja of Harsil and his second wife, Gulabi. They are among the hill-station’s most recurrent ghosts.

In 1883, Wilson’s obituary in The Pioneer described how he came to the valley:

[Wilson] started from Calcutta, armed with five rupees and a gun on his long march to the Himalayas … He lived for many years by the sale of what he shot, and finally embarked on timber contracts in the forests … until he amassed a considerable fortune.

Although he was not an author, he built the Wilson bridge over the Jadganga river, traces of which remain today. Kipling came in contact with Wilson, took a fancy for the legends surrounding him, and used his biographical details for his story, The Man who Would be King.

The ghosts of Gulabi and Pahari Wilson are said to still lurk in the Doon, largely owing to one of Bond’s supernatural stories, Wilson’s Bridge.

Sisters Bazaar in today’s Mussoorie. Paul Hamilton/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Young’s ghost is also an alleged regular at Mullingar flat. Today, Ganesh Saili and his family reside there. According to Saili:

[Young] astride a white horse arrives at the old Mullingar lodge, ties his steed to the remnants of the old wrought iron railing and … waits for the parade of Redcoats to begin.

Young, too, was an author of sorts. He may not have written anything but he helped build St. Peter’s Church and the area around the Sister’s Bazaar in Mussoorie, shaping the literary personality of the town.

An unlikely architectural heritage

Aside from ghosts, the other formal aspect of Doon’s literature is architecture. Writing about India’s hill-station buildings, Giriraja Shah explains:

A good number of historical monuments are famous, more because of the proper exposition of hoary romance, antiquity and myths … than the visible splendour of art and architecture.

Buildings in the region’s writings seem to embody the ghosts themselves, a kind of hauntology: where the literary landscape is a ghostly simulation of the lived space.

The Savoy Hotel, an iconic landmark in the Doon Valley, with its haunted corridors, and famed Writer’s Bar. Nick Kenrick/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Although Mussoorie’s buildings are offshoots of the Swiss-Gothic form – a style praised during colonial era in the Himalayas – it certainly is not a place replete with architectural intricacies. The Savoy Hotel, the Mussoorie Library, Skinner’s Hall, and some other old buildings and the churches of the township do exhibit the usual spires, gables, dormers, balustrades, pilasters, Glasgow-built lampposts, and colonnades. But these features are not as architectural as the state of disrepair itself in which the buildings find themselves.

The renowned architect-turned-scholar Bernard Tschumi, once gave an “Advertisement for Architecture” with an old photograph of the Villa Savoye, with the caption: “The most architectural thing about this building is the state of decay in which it is.”

Above Bothwell Bank. Paul Hamilton/Flickr

In literature, as also in reality, Mussoorie and Landour live in a state of aesthetic decay.

The names of their houses invoke a landscape set in a parallel timezone. Mullingar, Zephyr Lodge, Companybagh, Cloud End, Tipperary, Killarney, Shamrock Cottage, Scottsburn, Connaught Castle, Hampton Court, or those borrowed from Sir Walter Scott’s novels such as Kenilworth, Ivanhoe, and Rokeby (the last now converted into a pleasure resort, keeping intact the stony façade of a castle).

Landour preserves the memory of those Anglo-Indian spirits that refuse to acknowledge their extinction. Tourists are seduced by the town’s literary ghosts. And every once in a while, an ordinary night’s peace is disrupted by the purportedly paranormal interventions of a dead memsahib such as the spiritualist, Frances Garnett-Orme.

Her ghost is said to linger in the valley or the corridors of the Savoy Hotel, where she was allegedly poisoned to death, over a hundred years ago.

We might wonder whether the hauntings at Landour have any experiential element or are simply practical fictions conceived amid the solitude of the hills. As Ruskin Bond candidly stated, “when I run out of relatives, I invent ghosts.”

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Why Snowpod Resort is in demand more in Chardham Yatra?

The Char Dham Yatra 2024 is a sacred pilgrimage in Uttarakhand, India, covering four revered Hindu shrines: Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath. Here’s why Snowpod Resort and the entire Chardham Yatra are in demand this year:

Registration Process: The Char Dham Yatra registration process began on April 15, 2024. Devotees can register online for a well-organized and safe pilgrimage experience.

Kedarnath Temple: Kedarnath, the final destination of the Char Dham Yatra, is renowned for the Kedarnath Temple dedicated to Lord Mahadev. Surrounded by snow-capped peaks, the temple attracts devotees from far and wide.

Snowpod Resort: Located in Chopta Valley (also known as “mini Switzerland” of Uttarakhand), Snowpod Resort offers a blend of luxury, comfort, and nature. It’s one of the best eco-luxury resorts in the region, making it an attractive choice for pilgrims and travelers. SnowPod have 3 Resorts in Chapta (Near Tungnath), Harsil (Near Gangorti Dham), Guptakashi (Near Kedarnath Dham).

Stringent Guidelines: Given the anticipation of increased pilgrim numbers, stringent guidelines have been implemented for Char Dham Yatra 2024. Mandatory registration is required for all pilgrims embarking on the journey.

In summary, the combination of spiritual significance, natural beauty, and improved infrastructure has led to the popularity of Snowpod Resort and the entire Chardham Yatra in 2024. 

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Chopta Tungnath, often referred to as the “Mini Switzerland of India,” is a picturesque destination in Uttarakhand. Known for its stunning landscapes and the sacred Tungnath Temple, it attracts nature lovers and pilgrims alike. Finding the right accommodation can enhance your experience, whether you’re seeking adventure or tranquility. Here’s a guide to the best places to stay in Chopta Tungnath.