Chota Char Dham Yarta Gamukh, Origin of the Ganges. Chota Char Dham Yarta are 4 pilgrimage destinations of the Hindu religion located all at 'ends of roads' in the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand. They are - Yamnotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. The first one I visited was Gangotri. Approaching Gangotri the mountains become bigger, the valleys deeper, the water and waterfalls more abundant and the roads worse. Gangotri itself is a small village, popular only at the beginning of the summer, while during the winter it is unreachable. The village facilitates the Gangotri temple and is the exit point to some trekking destinations. From Gangotri there is a 16 km trek to the origin of the Ganges, the glacier Gamukh - mouth of the cow. After 12 km we reached the ashram where we slept on
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