Travel information in Badrinath

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Where To Travel in Badrinath
To get to Badrinath you first have to go to either Haridwar or Rishikesh. From there you catch a bus to Badrinath. The bus starts early in the morning and, depending on what time it departs, may reach in the early evening. Usually the trip takes one and a half days. Buses do not drive at night, because the roads are so dangerous.

After evening no buses can go past Joshimath, because the road is closed. So there is a good chance you will have to stop in Joshimath for the night Often buses stop for the night at Rudraprayag, before reaching Badrinath.

Buses leave Badrinath at early in the morning and arrive in Rishikesh about 8.30 pm and Haridwar at night. If buses departing from Badrinath to Rishikesh leave later in the day they have to make a night stop on the way.

There are buses to and from Kedarnath (14 hr) and Gangotri. It takes 8 days to walk from Kedarnath to Badrinath, 80 km on the mountain roads. Before the roads were built in the 1960s this was the only way to go from place to place.