Yash Vinod
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Reaching here may take a toll on your patience, depending on the route you take. In our case, the policemen standing at a fork told us to go left, which ended up in taking us along a very harrowing mountain ride (the other route was considerably shorter, but without the view.) The ashram is right next to the banks of the Ganges, and the banks are just a wee walk away from the entrance of the ashram. Now, at 150 rupees per adult Indian ticket, you may or may not find this worth it, depending on what you have come here to see. If you are explicitly going there to visit the place where the Beatles once lived and meditated, you may find it worth the hassle. If you are going there for casual tourism, you may wonder why you really had to come here. Coming to the place itself, it is basically a partially renovated complex of ruins. You will find many of the buildings broken up and overgrown with vegetation. You will be pleasantly surprised by the sheer amount of graffiti around many of the ruined buildings, created by visiting artists from around the world: in honor of the Beatles mainly. If you climb up to the roof of one of the four-storeyed apartments to visit the four dome-shaped structures, you will be presented with a breathtaking vista of the surrounding mountains and vegetation, not mentioning the beautifully painted domes themselves. The place does leave you wondering the question, "Why was such a place even abandoned in the first place?"
Tl;dr: Visit this place if you are a Beatles fan, risk it out even if you aren't.
