Har Ki Pauri - Haridwar - Uttarakhand

[SagarKulkarni]

Har Ki Pauri is a famous ghat on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar of Uttarakhand state of India. A center place of attraction among devotees in Haridwar, Har ki Pauri is believed to be the place of exit of holy river Ganga from the mountains.This is the major landmark of holy city Haridwar. Har ki Pauri means **“**Har” means “God”, “Ki” means " 's " and “Pauri” means “step”. History says this ghat build by King Vikramaditya. World famous Ganga Aarti takes place in Brahmakund area of Har ki Pauri, a sacred spot where it is believe that the nectar (Amrit) felled on earth. Biggest fairs of Hindu’s, Kumbh and Ardh Kumbh also takes place at Har ki Pauri. Following are some picture during my visit at Har ki Pauri.

Maa Ganga Mandir - Har Ki Pauri Photo by Local Guide @SagarKulkarni

Brahmakund - Har ki Pauri Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Birla Ghat - Har ki Pauri Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Bhagirath Setu Bridge - Har Ki Pauri

Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Shiv Ghat - Har Ki Pauri Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Evening Ganga Aarti - Har ki Pauri

Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Ancient Shri BandriNath Temple - Har ki Pauri Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Kedarnath and Shri Satyanarayan Mandir - Har Ki Pauri Photo by @SagarKulkarni

Valmiki Mandir - Har ki Pauri photo by LG @SagarKulkarni

Maa Ganga - Brahmakund - Haridwar Photo by LG @SagarKulkarni .

Jai Maa Gange, Har Har Mahadev.

[NyaiNurjanah]

Great post @SagarKulkarni

I heard often about Indian festival and tradition and yeah one more tradition post from you.

Have a great time and enjoy the festival.Holy river Gangga so famous and lot of festival.and you describe so we’ll.

Thanks so much

[shiprasuman]

very well explained. Thank you for sharing the lovely pictures of the place.

[SagarKulkarni]

@shiprasuman thank you .

[SagarKulkarni]

@Nyainurjanah thank you.

[NyaiNurjanah]

My pleasure @SagarKulkarni

Looking forward for your next interesting post.

[Mukul_Anand]

My all childhood memories are reconstruct after seeing this post , what’s more beautiful than the maha aarti of haridwar, thanks for sharing this beautiful post with us @SagarKulkarni all the pictures are very beautiful with some positivity.

Hope you enjoyed this trip

[SagarKulkarni]

@Mukul_Anand thank you so much , visited 4 more places in Haridwar. I’ll write post on Sunday with photos. This is most memorable days in my life. Happy to know you spend your childhoodays in Haridwar.