Rishikesh is the holy and sacred city for Hindus and a famous centre of pilgrimage for Hindus as well as foreign tourists too. It is also known as the "gateway to the Himalayas" and is located around 25 kilometers away from another holy city, Haridwar. Rishikesh is the starting point for traveling to the sites that form the Char Dham pilgrimage — Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri. A tour to Rishikesh is therefore as important to the religiously inclined, for its mythological importance; so it is for the nature lovers, who would simply love to be at green, quiet the banks of Ganges flowing by at Rishikesh.
The places of interest in Rishikesh you can find while tour to Rishikesh includes the temple section of Lakshman Jhula, 'Neelkanth Mahadev Temple', situated 12 km from Rishikesh, Vasishtha Gufa', (Cave of sage Vasishtha), 21 km up from the town by the Ganges, Lakshman Jhula Rishikesh, water river rafting on the holy Ganges, Ram Jhula.