Deoria Tal
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand, India
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Chopta
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The 'Mini Switzerland of Uttarakhand' — velvet meadows at 8,700 ft ringed by deodar and rhododendron, base for Tungnath–Chandrashila.
Tungnath Temple
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The world's highest Shiva temple (12,073 ft), a thousand-year-old stone shrine on the Chandrashila slope where Shiva's arms emerged.
Chandrashila Summit
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The 'moon rock' summit (13,123 ft) above Tungnath — a sunrise throne facing Nanda Devi, Trishul, Chaukhamba and Kedarnath at once.
Madhyamaheshwar Temple
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
The second Panch Kedar, where Shiva's navel is worshipped in a lonely meadow shrine below Chaukhamba, reached by a 16-km forest trek.
Rudranath Temple
Chamoli, Uttarakhand
The hardest-won Panch Kedar — Shiva's face in a natural rock cave shrine amid rhododendron meadows at 11,800 ft, trekked via Sagar village.
Kartik Swami Temple
Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
Kartikeya's knife-edge ridge shrine at 10,000 ft — a 3-km crest walk to a 360° Himalayan ring from Kedarnath dome to Nanda Devi.
Kedarnath Temple
Kedarnath, Uttarakhand
The highest of the twelve jyotirlingas — a thousand-year-old stone shrine at 3,583 m beneath the Kedarnath peaks, reached by a 16-km trek beside the Mandakini; it stood firm through the 2013 floods, shielded by a boulder now revered as divine.