Rishikesh Tour Packages

Either, or both on different evenings. Triveni Ghat, the main bathing ghat in the town centre, holds the best-known public aarti, with lamps, drums and chanting across the whole ghat. Parmarth Niketan's begins at sunset on the ashram's own ghat, after a yagna that starts half an hour earlier, and draws visitors of every faith. Its time moves with the sunset through the year. Where our packages include aarti seating in Rishikesh, it is at Parmarth Niketan.

From September to June. Rafting is suspended in July and August, when the monsoon raises the Ganga, and the district can halt it earlier: in 2025 it stopped on 24 June, with the river close to its warning level. The usual run is the stretch of about 11 km from Shivpuri down to Lakshman Jhula. Spiritual India includes one rafting run; on the North India Classic the fee is not included.

No. Lakshman Jhula, the 137-metre suspension bridge, was closed in July 2019 after an expert team found it unsafe. Ram Jhula, about 3 km away along the river, is closed to two-wheelers and has been shut at times for repairs. We check which crossings are open before you travel and plan your walks around them.

Largely, yes. Meat and fish may not be sold within Rishikesh's municipal limits, eggs are banned there too, a rule the Supreme Court upheld in 2004, and liquor is not sold in the town's religious areas. Plan on vegetarian meals while you are here. Lunches and dinners are not included in our Rishikesh packages, so you are free to choose where you eat.

Walk through the ruins of the Beatles Ashram, also called Chaurasi Kutia, in a forest patch in Swargashram, with portraits of the band painted on its walls. See Bharat Mandir near Triveni Ghat, one of the town's oldest shrines. Take the waterfall trail, or the Kunjapuri trek for a view of snow peaks. For adrenaline, Mohanchatti has bungee jumping from up to 83 metres. On Spiritual India the last full day is left free for this.

Yes. Rishikesh and Haridwar are the usual starting points, and the state runs a physical registration point at Rishikesh's Transit Camp alongside its online portal. Our Char Dham Yatra — 11 days begins with a night in Haridwar or Rishikesh and comes back here after Badrinath. Yoga days before or after are easy to add. For the full choice of yatras, see Char Dham Yatra tour packages; for the rest of the state, Uttarakhand tour packages.