Riding a pony to the temple

Yamnotri is the first dham we visit in the chardham circuit. It is a six Km hike to the temple from Janki Chatti. We decided to ride ponies. The 12 km ride to and fro convinced me that I could ride a Pony to Kedarnath (which is a 14km ride). The chardham is about the rivers that form Ganga. Yamuna meets Ganga at Allahabad, much after Ganga has assumed her own identity at Devaprayag. In this way Yamnotri is different from the other three dhams whose rivers merge before Ganga gets her official name.