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Yatra

The Source Trail

Trimbakeshwar, and the spring the Godavari comes from

Thirty kilometres west of the city, a Jyotirlinga with three faces and a tank the size of a courtyard that is officially the beginning of a 1,400-kilometre river. Four stops. Some steps involved.

4
stops
55
min
2.6
km

Flow

Stories start on their own when you reach a stop.

The route

1Kushavarta Kund2Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga3Gangadwar4Brahmagiri Hill250 mN
Distances and directions between stops are to scale. Streets are not shown, tap any stop below for turn-by-turn directions.

  1. While you listen: Look for the small stone spout on the north side. That trickle is the whole Godavari, at the start.

    Directions

Recorded narration in Marathi, Hindi and English, about half a megabyte per story. If a recording will not play, your phone reads the text aloud instead.