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Rules You Must Follow During the Sacred Yatra of Chardham

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Rules You Must Follow During the Sacred Yatra of Chardham

Visiting for a sacred tour brings connection between the mind, body, and soul along with peace and calmness. During the Chardham Yatra 2024, devotees travel from all over India to worship the idols and seek their blessings. Chardham Yatra is a religious tour where you have to move forward with the feelings of devotion and dedication.


Chardham Yatra includes four temples in the premises of Garhwal range of Himalayans that devotees perform from West to East in Clockwise direction. Yatra starts from the temple of Goddess Yamuna called Yamunotari dham, to Gangotri dham where Goddess Ganga is worship, afterwards Kedarnath dham where Lord Shiva resides, and ends at Badrinath dham where Lord Vishnu lives.


Tips to remember before going for Chardham Yatra

Devotees cannot start their journey to Chardham just like that. Before going for yatra, you need to check and perform some activities that help the authorities to keep a record of travellers. Here are some pointers to keep in mind.

  1. Register yourself on the official website of Chardham, as it will help the officials to calculate the total number of devotees and make arrangements accordingly. Chardham Yatra Registration 2024 will commence on 08 May 2024.
  2. Do check the temperature of the particular place where you are going. Avoid traveling in monsoon, as it is not advisable and can be dangerous for life.
  3. Before going for yatra, check the opening and closing dates of every temple along with timings. Make sure to have pre-booked stay with Chardham Yatra Packages 2024, it will aid you in saving your energy and time at the peak time.
  4. Travel safely and avoid the time of high rush or crowd. Moving forward calmly will help you to complete your journey with inner peace, calmness and devotion.


Opt for Health Precautions

While doing the Chardham yatra, devotees have to take care of themselves as travelling to high altitudes can make you unconscious and feel dizzy. In addition, while doing trekking at higher sea levels, you must be an active person as it assists you completing your journey without any health issues in minimal time.

  1. Keep yourself physically fit or go for walk. It will help you to maintain a habit of long walks and build your stamina for trekking.
  2. Remember to keep your regular medicines with you. Near the hillside area, it is difficult for you to find particular medicine that can be dangerous for your health.
  3. Make sure that you carry medicines for headache, nausea, vomiting, and more. Having medicine with you during travel will help you to keep yourself stable and calm.
  4. Make sure that you carry double layer of clothes for your trek. It will help you to stay away from cold weather at high altitude and stay healthy.


Tips to remember during trekking

During the journey, people forget to take care of several things such as cleanliness, health, surroundings, rules and regulations of temple and more due to which sometimes they face trouble. In this section, we will look after some essential tips that you must follow while doing your sacred journey to Chardham.

  1. Make sure that you carry full clothes, cover your head with caps, and wear at least two layers of clothes at the time of trekking. Performing trek with hands and ears fully covered will prevent you from cold breezes at high altitude.
  2. Do not trouble locals and animals during your journey. Make sure you have patience during the trek, as it will help you complete Chardham tour with peace and calmness. In addition, making a good relation with locals will help you to learn about their culture.
  3. Do not throw litter here and there during the trekking. It exploits the Mother Nature and leaves a bad impression at others. You are going for a good cause; make sure that you should maintain the cleanliness of the place.
  4. To learn about the correct route, ask the locals not the devotees. Locals will help you more accurately with the route instead of travellers. You can also ask for the route from more than one person for re-assurance.


Look after the Temple’s Instructions

Every temple has its own rules and regulations, which devotees have to follow while worshipping their idols. It helps both devotees and authorities to maintain peace and calm among the crowd. Let us have a look towards some of them.

  1. Make sure that you cover your head with handkerchief or a piece of cloth. You should also remove your shoes and shoes before entering the temple. In addition, avoid taking any leather made item inside the temple premises.
  2. Listen to the instructions given by priests and authorities. Do not make any kind of noise and hurry inside the temple. It can lead to undisturbed situations due to which there can be a possibility of injuries or miss happening.
  3. Do not light your divas before entering the temple, as it can bring fire situations due to crowd and hurry. Hence, always make sure that you light your earthen lamps in front of the idols only while keeping an eye to avoid any damage.
  4. Do not shoot insider the temple, make sure you ask the authorities whether it is allowed or not to take photograph of idol. Photography is a task of patience; make sure that you should make others wait while performing photography.


Conclusion

Chardham Yatra is a sacred journey that one can perform within a span of 14 days maximum. However, keeping yourself safe and secure is a task that devotees forget during the journey, due to which they get irritated while travelling. This blog of do’s and don’ts will assist you in keeping yourself healthy during the yatra if you are planning the entire trip. Apart from that, if you need guided assistance while travelling, make sure that you opt for Chardham Yatra Packages in which you will get pre-booked accommodations, transportations, meals, and more. For any query related to Chardham Tour Packages 2024, you can also visit our website www.arvholidays.com or contact us on +91-9355033324.



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