Description Rishikesh, India

Rishikesh is the world capital of yoga. This city Hindus, situated in the foothills of the Himalayas, named in honor of Lord Vishnu and is located on the banks of the sacred river Ganges. Rishikesh is also known as the gateway to the Himalayas and is located 25 kilometers from the other Hindu holy cities - Haridwar, as a starting point for the great pilgrimage mountain of ancient settlements, such as Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri.

Rishikesh is located in one and a half hours drive from Dehra Dun, is surrounded on three sides by rolling foothills and lies at an altitude of 356 meters above sea level.

Rishikesh has long been a place of confluence of many yogis, pilgrims and pilgrims coming here from all over India to worship the Great Mother Ganges and bathe in its clean and transparent waters. According to the beliefs of the Hindus, the Ganges is generated by the Supreme Lord Siva and is the embodiment of its good destructive power.

Indian sages say that the Ganges begins its sacred path to heaven, pouring on them in the form of a shining Milky Way. In the place where the celestial Ganges descends to the ground, and begins its course Earthly Ganges. For any Indian name Ganga - sacred water of Ganga - sacred, and sacred of any city, off its shores

Holy Ganges, relatively clean in these places, flows through the city and along its sandy shores clyudyanyh are numerous ashrams. In fact, here the river leaves the mountain gorges and begins his full-flowing traffic on the plain.