Adi Badri (Saraswati Udgam)
Yamunanagar, Haryana, India
Nearby attractions
Suketi Fossil Park
Nahan, Himachal Pradesh
Asia's first on-site fossil park — life-size models of the Shivaliks' extinct giants standing where their bones were dug from the Markanda clays.
Kapal Mochan Tirtha
Yamunanagar, Haryana
The sin-absolving triple tanks where Shiva, Rama and Guru Gobind Singh all bathed by tradition — a Kartik Purnima fair of five lakh pilgrims.
Nahan & Trilokpur Balasundari
Nahan, Himachal Pradesh
Sirmaur's 1621 walled capital of tank-side temples and the Ranital garden, with the Balasundari shakti shrine of Trilokpur in its foothills.
Ch. Devi Lal Herbal Nature Park, Chuharpur
Yamunanagar, Haryana
One of Asia's largest herbal gardens — 400 medicinal species from sanjeevani lore to everyday tulsi, in walking sections by ailment and clime.
Hathni Kund Barrage
Yamunanagar, Haryana
Where the Yamuna leaves the hills — a gate-run barrage splitting her into canals for two states, with Shivalik views and winter waterbirds.
Chaneti Buddhist Stupa
Yamunanagar, Haryana
An Ashokan-era brick stupa dome intact in a farm hamlet — the Srughna region's survivor that Xuanzang's route notes still explain.
Chhachhrauli & Kalesar Palace Country
Yamunanagar, Haryana
The little capital of Kalsia state — faded palaces and gates of a Sikh principality, forest roads rolling east to Kalesar's sal.
Kalesar National Park
Yamunanagar, Haryana
Haryana's only sal forest — a Shivalik wedge on the Yamuna where elephants wander in from Rajaji, leopards den and a colonial rest-house sleeps.
Renuka Ji Lake
Nahan, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal's largest natural lake, shaped like a reclining goddess — parikrama paths, a lion-safari park and the great Kartik fair honouring Renuka and Parshuram.