Bhimgoda Tank

A kilometre upstream of Har Ki Pauri the crowd thins and the bank gives way to a stone tank with a story attached: by legend Bhima, walking with his brothers towards the Himalayas, drove his knee (goda) into the ground here and water came up. The kund has been a bathing place since antiquity, reworked over recent decades, and the Bhimgoda barrage now stands beside it. Ten minutes rather than an afternoon, and easiest to fold into the birdwatching at Neel Dhara or the climb to Chandi Devi. Free.

A Mahabharata episode you can stand in, ten minutes from the main ghat