Trip to Kedarnath and Badrinath June 2012 Part 5

Day 7 - 5th June - early morning at 4.00 am we visited the Badrinath Temple .A new system of token has started , but had the darshan with out token as in the morning there was less crowd and no one was checking the token  -After the Darshan , we started for Karanprayag and reached by 2.00pm

Badrinath Temple

Badrinath Temple




bathing Ghat at Hot water kund


View from badrinath





Karanprayag







view for the room

view from the room
Karanprayag GMVN tourist rest house

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