Surya Kund

Surya Kund is the most sacred and famous hot spring at Yamunotri — a boiling natural spring (temperature near 100°C) where pilgrims cook rice and potatoes in muslin cloth bags as prasad offerings. A remarkable natural phenomenon where thermal springs emerge dramatically beside glacial Himalayan streams. The steam and sulphur atmosphere around the kund is otherworldly. Adjacent Gauri Kund is used for bathing before temple darshan. An unmissable highlight of the Yamunotri Char Dham pilgrimage.