{"id":1693,"date":"2016-04-09T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-04-09T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:30:13","slug":"rudraprayag-on-way-to-sri-kedarnath-and-sri-badrinath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/rudraprayag-on-way-to-sri-kedarnath-and-sri-badrinath\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudraprayag on way to Sri Kedarnath and Sri Badrinath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rudraprayag<\/strong> is 34 km from Srinagar<\/strong> and 142 km from Rishikesh<\/strong> \u00a0situated at a height of 610 meters from sea level surrounded by the Himalayan \u00a0mountains it is not only one of the Panch Prayag<\/strong> \u00a0( Five confluence ) or Sangam<\/strong>\u00a0 with the holy river Alaknanda<\/strong>\u00a0in Garhwal region of Uttarkhand in Himalayas , the river Mandakini<\/strong> meets the Alaknanda<\/strong> here but also got the\u00a0religious\u00a0importance \u00a0for the pilgrims travelling to Sri Kedarnath<\/strong> and Sri Badrinath<\/strong> on Yatra Chardham<\/strong>. It is from here the road\u00a0bifurcate and one goes to Guptkashi then to Gaurikund from here the trek to Sri Kedarnath starts while the other road goes to Joshimath then to Sri Badrinath, in between is Gobind Ghat from here trek to Ghangharia , Valley of Flowers and Hemkund \/ Lokpal starts<\/strong>
\n

\"\"

Rudra Prayag<\/p><\/div>
\nThis place is named after the Lord Shiva<\/strong> who appeared here in form of “Rudra”<\/strong> after the Rishi Narad<\/strong> worshiped him and asked for his teachings to learn and master the Music on Rudra Veena<\/strong> , \u00a0the rock where he learned music is called the Narad Shila<\/strong>. Legend is that Lord Shiva<\/strong> meditated here before leaving for Sri Kedarnath<\/strong> the Koteshwar\u00a0temple<\/strong> on the banks of Alaknanda<\/strong> are the cave<\/strong>\u00a0temples<\/strong> where the images of Lord are in natural formations of rock (Koti is 10 million, Koteshwar means God of 10 million). It is also said that the \u00a0Sati<\/strong> consort of Lord Shiva reborn as Parvati<\/strong> daughter of Himalaya<\/strong> \u00a0after she immolated her self in the Yagnakund performed by her father and she could not\u00a0tolerate\u00a0the disrespect to her husband the Lord Shiva , Parvati\u00a0<\/strong>dedicated\u00a0herself \u00a0to be his wife again and to\u00a0achieve\u00a0this she performed Tapasya ( Penance ) here. There is a temple\u00a0dedicated to Ma Chamunda<\/strong>\u00a0 wife of lord Rudra<\/strong> is worshiped here. It is also said that the Lord Shiva performed the Tandava<\/strong> Nritya<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution.<\/strong>
\nFor more information and packages contact<\/span> 09810506646<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nOffice Contact 011 45725562, 45725563, 45725564<\/span><\/strong>
\nCallers from outside India<\/span> + 44 7700093414<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nEmail : promark@promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong>
\nWebsite : yatrachardham.com , promarktravels.com<\/span><\/strong>
\nBlog : promarktravels.com\/blog<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rudraprayag is 34 km from Srinagar and 142 km from Rishikesh \u00a0situated at a height of 610 meters from sea level surrounded by the Himalayan \u00a0mountains it is not only one of the Panch Prayag \u00a0( Five confluence ) or Sangam\u00a0 with the holy river Alaknanda\u00a0in Garhwal region of Uttarkhand in Himalayas , the river … →<\/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":[2,5,7,11,12,19,21,23,24,25,26,28,29],"tags":[90,216,448,920,1043,1106,1209,1438,1619,1623,1650,1977,2101,2102,2128,2329,2332,2351,2391,2444,2472,2678,2689,2793,2800,3110],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-char-dham","category-gangotri","category-himalayas","category-history","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-sri-badrinath","category-sri-kedarnath","category-trekking","category-uttarakhand","category-yamunotri","category-yatra-chardham-itineraries","tag-alaknanda","tag-badrinath","tag-cave-temple","tag-guptkashi","tag-himalayan-mountains","tag-india","tag-joshimath","tag-koteshwar","tag-lord-rudra","tag-lord-shiva","tag-ma-chamunda","tag-narad-shila","tag-panch-prayag","tag-panch-prayag-five","tag-parvati-daughter-of-himalaya","tag-rishi-narad","tag-rishikesh","tag-river-mandakini","tag-rudra-veena","tag-sangam","tag-sati","tag-sri-badrinath","tag-sri-kedarnath","tag-tandava-nritya","tag-tapasya-penance","tag-yatra-chardham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}