Almost everyone who comes to Barkot arrives after dark and leaves before sunrise. Sleep, tea, Yamunotri, gone. We watch it happen from our property here every single day of the season, and it is a bit of a waste, because Barkot is one of the few Char Dham halts that is genuinely worth a day...Read More

Most people plan the Yamunotri leg of Char Dham backwards. They book the temple visit first and then figure out where to sleep, and end up starting the day from Uttarkashi or worse, from a car seat at 2 in the morning. Barkot is the fix. It sits 36 km short of Janki Chatti on...Read More