Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
8 places · showing 1–8
1
The evening fire ceremony on the ashram's ghat, led by resident students, with chanting and lamps floated on the river at dusk.
2
Grade II to IV rapids on the run down from Shivpuri or Marine Drive — the reason half the visitors come.
3
The iron suspension bridge that defines Rishikesh, with the Tera Manzil temple at one end and the town's café strip at the other.
4
Drop-in hatha and ashtanga classes run all day across the ashram belt, from beginner sessions to formal teacher training.
5
The abandoned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ashram where the Beatles wrote much of the White Album in 1968, now overgrown, graffitied and…
6
The main bathing ghat in the town centre, busiest at the evening Maha Aarti and at dawn when pilgrims bathe.
7
A hilltop shrine 25 km away with a clear-day panorama of Swargarohini, Bandarpunch and Gangotri peaks at first light.
8
A Shiva temple at 1,330 m in the hills above town, reached by a winding road or a steep three-hour forest trek.