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A hillside town of white and pastel concrete buildings with metal roofs at Gangotri, beside a rushing river. In the foreground a large white-and-red signboard in Hindi reads the main bathing ghat and main puja place, and a small figure in white stands near the water. A stepped white ghat leads up to a multi-storey white building with red-trimmed windows and a signboard in Hindi, and a red and white building with the name Ishavasya is visible at right. A striped orange and red a person-style sunburst emblem appears on a wooden railing at right, and a person in orange clothing stands on the riverbank below.

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