Rishikesh Inns - Reviews and Rates

7:30 am: Wake up (well, get out of bed, I usually wake up earlier but stay in bed because it just seems to early to get up while on vacation!). Perform kriya (purification) yoga. This involves scraping my tongue with a metal tongue scraper, then rubbing my teeth, gums, inner cheeks, and roof of my mouth with salt. Next I wash my eyes with cold w...

Tomorrow I am leaving for a 10 day Vipassana Retreat in Dehradun (about an hour from Rishikesh). 10 days of silence, full time meditation, no internet! So my dearest and closest, please do not worry about me if you do not hear anything for 10 days. I will be coming back to Rishikesh for 1 night on my way to Uttarkashi (farther up in the Himalaya...

Today is a holy day in India. They call it Festival of Colors. Everyone is throwing powdered color on each other and it is very festive. The children are the ones who really enjoy it. They like to wait on the roof tops and as people come by they ambush them with color. Very funny and impossible to avoid. There is a very nice girl in my class fro...

For any of you who don't know where Rishikesh is. I be honest I didn't! It's where the Beatles went in 1967 and stayed at a Ashram. A Ashram is a place people go to for spiritual uplifting though meditation, Yoga and maybe follow the teachings of some Holy person. It's also the Home of Yoga. The location isn't too bad either set on the Ganges. I...

J: The bus trip to Rishikesh was one of the easiest trips we have had. We thought it would take at least an hour, but ended up being closer to 40 minutes (I think it is unheard of for travel to be ahead of schedule here). I am going to warn you all right now that I am not going to do Rishikesh justice here. It is kind of challenging to describe....

Je prends mon train express a 6h et quelques le matin... le main bazaar est encore calme quand je passe puisqu'il fait encore noir. Arrive a la gare j'arrive pour verifier sur quelle plate-forme je dois aller attendre le train et deux autres voyageurs arrivent pour regarder la meme info. 2 Canadiens! On est dans le meme wagon a quelques sieges d...

I'm loving these motorbikes. They are so much fun. I have the guys drive me around these areas exploring and running errands. So that's what I do during the day. Wake up, do a yoga class in the peaceful garden, get eaten alive by the mossies, roam around the area, chill out, talk with the locals, and try to plan the trek. I'm actually getting an...

We've finally made some progress in the planning department. This morning, as nothing was happening with the trek, I decided I would leave for the north the next day. However as the day progressed, a decision was finally reached...we were going to the source of the Ganga....the departure date was still undecided...but at least we were getting cl...