{"id":1596,"date":"2015-02-06T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2015-02-06T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T04:30:58","slug":"harsil-on-way-to-gangotri-uttrakhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/harsil-on-way-to-gangotri-uttrakhand\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsil on way to Gangotri, Uttrakhand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harsil<\/strong> is 24 kms. before Gangotri and 73 km. from Uttarkashi <\/strong>, a small sleepy village with an army cantonment situated at a height of 7860 feet from sea level, \u00a0beautiful place full of Pine,\u00a0Deodar trees and medicinal plants , orchards \u00a0famous for its\u00a0juicy Apples . It is\u00a0inhabited by Bhotias of Himalayas<\/strong>, very close to the Tibet border. Famous for its variety of trekking routes, camping, and dense forests. It is a small village with some places of interest in the surroundings like bird watching, trekking, or simply building camps with kids and family near the river Bhagirathi<\/strong> .<\/span>
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River Jalandhari at Harsil<\/p><\/div>
\nThe mythological importance<\/strong> of this place is it has a reference in Skandh Purans chapter Kedarkhand<\/strong> . It is here at Mukhwa village the Idol of Ma Ganga is kept and worshiped during the winters<\/strong> . Mukhwa is a place where Chaman Rishi took rest<\/strong> with Pandva prince Bheem<\/strong>\u00a0when he was coming to lit\u00a0the holy fire at Ashwamegha Yagna<\/strong> , The reference of Mayank Parvat<\/strong> in it is here\u00a0.<\/span>
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River Bhagirath and Banderpunch mountain range Harsil<\/p><\/div>
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\nIt is a Maha Prayag of nine rivers<\/strong> joining the Bhagirathi<\/strong> the\u00a0 rivers are Jalandhari, Vishnu Ganga, Kheer Ganga, Bheem Ganga, Lakshmi Ganga, Telangana, Pawan Ganga\u00a0and \u00a0Hatya Harini<\/strong> cris crossing the valley , at the Prayag (\u00a0confluence) of Vishnu Ganga, Jalandhari \u00a0into Bhagirathi there is a temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu and Ma Bhagwati<\/strong> , it is said that lord Vishnu took the form of Shaligram<\/strong> here and lying at this Prayag<\/strong> (\u00a0confluence ).<\/span>
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Lord Vishnu temple at Maha Prayag Harsil<\/p><\/div>
\nThere is a <\/span>temple didicated to Ma Durga<\/strong> on the banks of river Bhagirathi , it is said that it is here\u00a0Maha Rishi Markandey<\/strong> wrote the\u00a0Saptshati<\/strong> in praise of Ma Durga the <\/span>first ever worship of female\u00a0Goddess\u00a0\u00a0in <\/span>Sanatan Dharma.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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Harsil is 24 kms. before Gangotri and 73 km. from Uttarkashi , a small sleepy village with an army cantonment situated at a height of 7860 feet from sea level, \u00a0beautiful place full of Pine,\u00a0Deodar trees and medicinal plants , orchards \u00a0famous for its\u00a0juicy Apples . It is\u00a0inhabited by Bhotias of Himalayas, very close to … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,7,10,11,12,18,19,21,22,25,26,29],"tags":[179,271,282,314,331,462,812,991,1001,1044,1106,1162,1359,1487,1633,1652,1653,1700,1701,1704,1817,2136,2632,2816,3045,3091],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-char-dham","category-gangotri","category-helicopter-charters","category-himalayas","category-history","category-people","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-road-trip","category-trekking","category-uttarakhand","category-yatra-chardham-itineraries","tag-ashwamegh-yagna","tag-beautiful","tag-bhagirathi","tag-bheem-ganga","tag-bhotias-of-himalaya","tag-chaman-rishi","tag-gangotri","tag-harsil","tag-hatya-harini","tag-himalayas","tag-india","tag-jalandhari","tag-kheer-ganga","tag-lakshmi-ganga","tag-lord-vishnu","tag-ma-durga","tag-ma-ganga","tag-maha-prayag","tag-maha-prayag-harsil","tag-maha-rishi-markandey","tag-mayank-parvat","tag-pawan-ganga","tag-skandh-purans","tag-telangna","tag-vishnu-ganga","tag-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}