If anyone ever asked me which posts I like to do most, the answer would be a post with a lot of pictures and very little text! It will be a post like this one, about the spirituality of Haridwar through pictures.
Even though I do not wear bangles, but I know they will make for a colorful picture! My biggest quarrel with bangles is that they make typing hell! I clicked this picture at the Mansa Devi premises at Haridwar.
The small vendors employ no designers for their display and yet almost always they do it aesthetically! They have even mastered the casual chaos look, like the one of the conch shells!
Once again I was attracted by the color of the big and beautiful heap! I do not put sindoor. But I did not buy it as a gift as well because I know it will end up in my daughter’s hand. And difficult to remove colors are lethal in the hands of children!
The shop is called Raju Bhai ki Jalebi but the person in-charge is Sachin. They make jalebi only at specific times. If you want to eat it you have to come then!
I quite enjoyed my hot plate of Jalebis! They came out right off the kadahi and I had to wait a while or else I would burn my fingers.
Where there are temples, there are flowers as offerings. And where there are offerings, there is a pretty picture.
The girl was shopping with her mother. The mother went about it quietly. The daughter asked the shopkeeper, “What is good among all this?” He replied, “Everything at my shop is good!”
At Har Ki Pauri, offerings and water bottles are a common site. Bottles are handy if you wish to carry the Gangajal back home but forgot to take a container with you!
Not sure what these old coins are for? Is it an offering? I hope it is not thrown into the river. That would be bad.
The young boy had a front row seat to the Ganga Aarti. And yet towards the end he decided to stand up. People shouted at him to sit down but he refused to budge. I have to say he was the only one. No one else created any nuisance. It was a beautiful stay overall for me at Haridwar.
PS. My trip to Haridwar was sponsored by Alpana Hotel!
Haridwar became alive through your post. Though old charms of Haridwar is missing these days but still I love visiting the place.
This was my first real stop at Haridwar or I would just go ahead and do rafting!
Love love loved the Pics ; Jalebi was icing on the Cake 😉
Thank you Pooja!
Very lovely view..good to see a devotion
Nice picts. Feel like having visited the pilgrimage site
Always wanted to go and visit Haridwar, now i guess will get a reason to visit. Especially loved the photo of the coins, reminded me of my old coin collection.
I was transported to Hardwar by your lovely photos.
lovely images of har ki pauri…….i never get tired of taking pics here even though I visit here almost 7-8 times in a year….such a vibrant colorful place it is!!
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I visited Haridwar almost four years back. Your pics reminded me all the experiences..Good post.
Wonderful pictures 🙂
Interesting set of images.. and I am so glad you post a variety of images,
Great collection of pictures. Sights from the streets tell us a lot about the place.
The arti pic is beautiful. Love the light in that one.
Lovely pics!
Amazing captures, Mridula. Liked 1st , and 7th the most 🙂
Nice pictures
thanks for sharing such nice pics
Beautiful captures. Liked those conch shells very much. Never seen so many of them together.
Such a spoilsport that guy in the end.
Haridwar looks more beautiful through your post.
Such lovely pictures. Haridwar is my very fav place because of lot of childhood memories. Your pictures brought back those memories so wonderfully.
Awesome pictures! My favorite is the Ganga Aarti and the heaped sindoor one (liked the way the sindoor and the marketing strategy for it has been captured).
missing Haridwar now. That Sindoor picture reminded me of a pic I took while I was in the famous Vishwanath Gali of Varanasi. Sharing the instagram link here: https://www.instagram.com/p/6h_rHWDVbq/?taken-by=jiggyasa_srivastava&hl=en
hope you like it 🙂
Haridwar , the way to swarg . never seen like this as in your post ! Ganga aarti recently can see in Kashi i.e Varanasi . conch shell are very beautiful and the old coins are always attracts me but these are too costly .
Really nothing need to be said about the holy place Haridwar as the classic photographs themselves speak all of that.. A great Travel Post, Mridula!
Loved the picture of the Aarti.
Beautiful pictures, especially the last one!
Awesome pics from Haridwar.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Have been to Haridwar many times but never visited evening Arti.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice Pics.. Keep updating..
The beautiful pictures brought back memories of my own trip three years back. Loved the aura of the place. As I remember thinking, there is a an order in the chaos!
Great post. Wonderful pictures love all these. Very lovely view. Thanks for sharing.
The evening aarti at Hardiwar is a feast to the eyes to watch…I went there as a child and the memories of it are still fresh.
I need to go again! 😀