Saturday, April 5, 2008


Recently I have been to Ruch (Ruchh) with my family. This was one of the best trips I had during my visits to various temples in Garhwal region. Ruchh is approximately 5 Kilometers from Kaalimath and Kaalimath is approximately 7 Kms from Guptakashi. Frequent shared Jeeps/Taxis are available on this route. Once you reach Kotma, you need to go down in the valley for 1 Kms.
Here is a temple of Maa kotimaheshwari and there is a rock which is symbolical of the god Mahadev right in the middle of the river. This is said to be only Linga in the world which is surrounded by water.
Here two rivers madhuganga and saraswati meet. you have to go down in the river water and walk on some stones to reach "ruch mahadev" linga.
Ruchh is not visited by too many visitors, only a few visitors visit this place.
There is a small Jharna nere by, where Parvati said to bath when she spent her childhood here.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

that sounds exciting. i have been to kalimath but didn't knew about Ruch at dat time. So next time i get an oppertunity to visit kaalimath ill make sure dat i visit Ruch as well.

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thank you for your visit.

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