Introducing Omkareshwar
A regular mini Varanasi, Omkareshwar is an Om-shaped island that has long attracted sadhus in droves but is only beginning to show up on travellers’ itineraries. When the sadhus aren’t sleeping off their pilgrimages in the island’s warren of lanes, among colourful stalls selling souvenir linga, they attend Shri Omkar Mandhata. This cavelike temple, which houses the only shapeless jyothi lingam, is one of many Hindu and Jain monuments on the island.
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You can walk 8km round the island or up the 370 steps to the ruined Gaudi Somnnath Temple, from where you can descend the hill to the northern tip of the island, where sadhus bathe in the confluence of the holy Narmada and Keveri Rivers.
Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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