Trip to Parvati Valley (Manikaran)

This is in continuation of my previous blog "Manali trip at a glance".

Day 3: 7:00 pm we were moving into Parvati valley, sideways parvati river were flowing; water sounds and green water...SoSo amazing.

We have looked for few riverside camps to stay, mostly were empty not much people to enjoy with. So we have decided to book a resort with swimming pool and DJ night (Kasol Inn).

Day 4: We have checked out from hotel and moved to Manikaran. It was around 10 km from our resort. Once we parked our car. Travel by foot around 1 km and reached at the Manikaran.

View was so amazing standing on the bridge in front of Manikaran gurudwara, Parvati river flowing under the bridge, crystal clear green water with heavy current making noise and chilly winds and light drizzling , weather was at its best. We took some snaps then moved for Darshan, we washed our feet in the hot water spring kund in the premises.

We went to Shiva temple, very hot water was in the kunds and in the back side of temple was there as well, devotees were cooking rice as a prasad in that water in the mandir premises. We stayed there for few time. Witnessed the art of nature, hot water kunds, icy cold water river, and shivering cold winds all at one place at a time, quite a rare combination.

Then we moved forward in the gully (street) area to see "Shri Ram Temple" in the passing corridoor there were many local shops specially items made up of wood, seems like wooden art is there speciality.

On the way we have seen "Raghunath Temple" after around 500 mts walk, It was old temple made up of stone and wood on the top. After moving 200 mts further we came in the open area we can see "Rath" was placed in the courtyard, they might use it during the time of "Rath Yatra".

We have arrived at "Shri Ram Temple"; we had darshan, there were few other temple in the premises as well. Hot water kunds were there as well. Few people were bathing there. We have checked the water as well to bath, but it was very hot.

We had Langar prasad in the premises as well.

During our return started to rain heavily, we took shed at the shop and in the meantime we did some shoping for soveniours and wooden art as well.

We had bath in hot water pool build downstairs before reaching the bridge. After that we had few snacks. And by noon time we started our journey way back to home.