Gaurikund Things to Do

If you are in Gauri Kund, might as well participate in its namesake: take a bath in the hot spring pool called Gauri Kund. It rejuvenates you just when you need it the most after a long and tiring bus ride and before a long trek up to Kedarnath ahead. You might like it enough to do it again when you come back down.

There are separate sections for men and women. Women have a closed room and men have an open pool under the sky and around hotels, restaurants and security cameras. For some mysterious reason women casually gaze about the men's section, the tacit reason being 'I'm looking for someone' =)

The water temperature here is much more relaxing than the furiously hot water springs at Badrinath (Tapt Kund). But do note that water levels of Gaurikund change throughout the day. Around 6pm it will be a puddle, less than 4 feet at 4.30am, highest level I saw was close to 5 ft around 8am.

[Though I wanted to show what it looks like here, didn't seem right to take a picture of public bathing.. with unsuspecting public in it :P ]