Haridwar, on the banks of stream Ganga, serves as an entryway to the celebrated around the world Char Dham altars arranged in the Upper Himalayas, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri. The Origin of the Char Dham stays dark. The label Char Dham had been saved for India's most popular journey circuit, four imperative sanctuaries—Puri, Rameshwaram, Dwarka, and Badrinath. They had been assembled together by the immense eighth-century reformer and savant Shankaracharya (Adi Sankara) as the original All-India journey circuit to the four cardinal purposes of the subcontinent. Badrinath, the last went to and the most imperative of the four destinations in the first Char Dham, likewise turned into the foundation site of a Himalayan journey circuit named the Chota (little) Char Dham. Not at all like the first Char Dham, have the locales of the Chota Char Dham had their own, different partisan association.
Gangotri is the origin of the sacred river Ganga. River Ganga is valued as a mother all through India. As per the Hindu sagacity, a spot considered to a great degree sacred if a waterway going through it streams in the northern course. Gangotri is a spot which is the cause of Ganga as well as where Ganga streams in a northerly course, thus the name 'Gangotri'. The stream Ganga streams out from the dissolving Gangotri ice sheet, which is at a separation of around 18 km from the Gangotri town. Near the sanctuary is Bhagirath Shila, which as per the Hindu reasoning is the spot where Bhagirathi did atonement for a long time to look for the gifts of Mother Ganga and asked for her to plunge to the Earth from her grand house scrub the wrongdoings of his progenitors.