RISHIKESH & HARIDWAR – YOGA & GANGA PILGRIMAGE PACKAGE ✨🌊🕉️

Pickup from Dehradun Airport (~54 km, 1.5 hrs) or Haridwar Railway Station (direct) 🛕 Mansa Devi Temple (cable car, 0.5 km) – hilltop Shakti temple; sacred Haridwar Panchatirtha 🛕 Chandi Devi Temple (Neel Parvat Hill) – second important Haridwar hilltop temple; cable car or 3-km trek; panoramic Ganga & Siwalik view 🌊 Har ki Pauri Ghat (evening) – holiest ghat in Haridwar; "God's Footstep"; where Ganga leaves the mountains for the plains; evening Ganga Aarti (7 PM) – fire lamps, conch shells, bells; thousands of devotees; floating lamps (diyas) on the river 🛕 Daksha Mahadev Temple (3 km from Har ki Pauri) – Daksha-Prajapati's yajna site; ancient Shiva temple

• Pickup from Dehradun Airport (~54 km, 1.5 hrs) or Haridwar Railway Station (direct)
• Mansa Devi Temple (cable car, 0.5 km) – hilltop Shakti temple; sacred Haridwar Panchatirtha
• Chandi Devi Temple (Neel Parvat Hill) – second important Haridwar hilltop temple; cable car or 3-km trek; panoramic Ganga & Siwalik view
• Har ki Pauri Ghat (evening) – holiest ghat in Haridwar; "God's Footstep"; where Ganga leaves the mountains for the plains; evening Ganga Aarti (7 PM) – fire lamps, conch shells, bells; thousands of devotees; floating lamps (diyas) on the river
• Daksha Mahadev Temple (3 km from Har ki Pauri) – Daksha-Prajapati's yajna site; ancient Shiva temple
• Check-in & Overnight stay in Haridwar

Breakfast & check-out from Haridwar 🚗 Drive to Rishikesh (~25 km, 45 min) 🌉 Laxman Jhula (suspension bridge) – iconic 450-ft hanging bridge over the Ganga; ancient pilgrimage crossing; temples on both banks; sadhus; ashrams 🌉 Ram Jhula (300 m downstream from Laxman Jhula) – second suspension bridge; view of both bridges from river 🕉 Triveni Ghat (evening) – where three rivers meet (symbolically); Rishikesh Ganga Aarti (6:30 PM) – more intimate than Haridwar

• Breakfast & check-out from Haridwar
• Drive to Rishikesh (~25 km, 45 min)
• Laxman Jhula (suspension bridge) – iconic 450-ft hanging bridge over the Ganga; ancient pilgrimage crossing; temples on both banks; sadhus; ashrams
• Ram Jhula (300 m downstream from Laxman Jhula) – second suspension bridge; view of both bridges from river
• Triveni Ghat (evening) – where three rivers meet (symbolically); Rishikesh Ganga Aarti (6:30 PM) – more intimate than Haridwar
• Neelkanth Mahadev Temple (32 km from Rishikesh through forest, 1,330 m) – Shiva temple where Shiva drank the poison from Samudra Manthan; popular but requires 1.5 hr drive through forest
• Check-in & Overnight stay in Rishikesh (near Laxman Jhula)

Breakfast & check-out 🏛 Beatles Ashram (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram) – where the Beatles stayed in 1968 and composed much of the White Album; abandoned; ruins with murals; now open as a paid heritage site; atmospheric 🌊 Ganga River Rafting (16 km, Grade 3–4, Shivpuri to Rishikesh, 2.5 hrs) – Rishikesh is India's river rafting capital; rapids: Roller Coaster, Golf Course, Three Blind Mice; ₹600–1,200 pp OR for non-rafters: Yoga / Meditation session at an ashram (morning, 1–2 hrs; Parmarth Niketan, Sivananda Ashram – open to visitors) 🚗 Transfer to Dehradun Airport / Haridwar / Rishikesh Railway Station for departure

• Breakfast & check-out
• Beatles Ashram (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Ashram) – where the Beatles stayed in 1968 and composed much of the White Album; abandoned; ruins with murals; now open as a paid heritage site; atmospheric
• Ganga River Rafting (16 km, Grade 3–4, Shivpuri to Rishikesh, 2.5 hrs) – Rishikesh is India's river rafting capital; rapids: Roller Coaster, Golf Course, Three Blind Mice; ₹600–1,200 pp
• OR for non-rafters: Yoga / Meditation session at an ashram (morning, 1–2 hrs; Parmarth Niketan, Sivananda Ashram – open to visitors)
• Transfer to Dehradun Airport / Haridwar / Rishikesh Railway Station for departure