Brush Up Your Knowledge Of Your Holy Destination

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When it comes to traveling not for a holiday but to accomplish a holy task then it is necessary that you have certain facts right. Actually traveling can never be fun until you have ample information about the new place you are going to. A map in hand does not always serve the purpose. You need to brush up your knowledge about your holy pilgrimage before embarking on one. It is a tedious task to accomplish the much famous Chardham. For that reason you can take a certain amount of information about the one of the four locations Badrinath before you start out.

First of all you may cover what are the places that are worth visiting and then you may see the distance and the rest of the details. Knowing a little history about the city does not harm. It only increases your knowledge about a certain place.

To begin with Badrinath is known to be located in the Chamoli district in Uttarakhand. This location amongst the three other holy destinations in Uttarakhand is specifically located close to the Indo-China border. On its way falls the famous Hemkund Sahib shrine that is considered to be the most revered temples among ...
... the Sikhs.

One can reach Badrinath by road and it usually takes about 48 hours to complete this journey if the starting point were to be another holy pilgrimage spot, i.e., Kedarnath. You can safely travel by a taxi or some other means of transport to reach your desired holy destination.

This location is brimming with the legend of Mahabharata. It is in a cave in the village of Mana here that the sage Vyasa is believed to have written the Mahabharata. Further,, it was in the Swargarohini of this very Badrinath that the Pandavas ascended to heaven. It is here that both avatars of Lord Vishnu came. It is here that the holy Ganges descended upon the earth to aid humankind. So this dham has a lot of stories to tell to its visitors.

This is not all. Visitors of this dham would be glad to know that not too far from here lies the famous Joshimath that is also referred to as Jyotirmath. This math was established by renowned saint Adi Shankaracharya. Because of the fact that this math is among the four famous maths in the country, many devotees flock to Badrinath to see this math as well.

Because of the fact that many important sites of holy importance fall on the way to this dham, like the Hemkund Sahib, it remains a lot crowded during the pilgrimage season. You need to make sure that you travel with the right woolens in your baggage.

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