Hemkund - Nature

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The tributaries of the Ganges merge along the way and the towns at the confluences carry the suffix prayag ("confluence").

At all major prayags there are Hindu temples precisely in the V of the confluence, and it is generally possible to walk down to these temples and watch the water up close.

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