India: Witnessing Hinduism in HARIDWAR
July 22nd 2008 HARIDWAR
What a nice surprise this holy city by the Ganges was! Spiritually, it's more significant to Hindus than Rishikesh. It's one of the 7 sacred Indian cities, attracting a multitude of pilgrims and shadus to bathe and do "pujas" where the Gange River emerges from the Himalaya.
Haridwar has the frantic confusion of the Indian cities, but in a much smaller scale. A huge plus was the fact
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