Hotel vasudeva inn is located between Badrinath and Joshimath in a village called pandukeshwar. Hotel vasudeva is exactly 21 kms from Badrinath. Pandukeshwar is the place where the idol of udhav ji is kept after the door of the badrinath ji are closed for winter.

The dhayan badri temple built by the pandavas is also located in pandukeshwar. Apart from this, the Temple of Kuber ji and Ghantakaran ji is also located in pandukeshwar. Govind ghat is situated exactly 2 kms from here, from where the journey of hemund sahib starts and the way to the Valley of Flowers is also from Govindghat.

Badrinath or Badrinarayana Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu which is situated in the town of Badrinath in Uttarakhand, India. The temple is also one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Badrinath—holy shrines for Vaishnavites. People following the Jain religion worship the temple and idol belonging to Rishbhdev (Rishabhanatha) or Adinath, the first Tirthankar of Jainism.[citation needed] It is open for six months every year (between the end of April and the beginning of November), because of extreme weather conditions in the Himalayan region. The temple is located in Garhwal hill tracks in Chamoli district along the banks of Alaknanda River.It is one of the most visited pilgrimage centers of India, having recorded 1,060,000 visits. The image of the presiding deity worshipped in the temple is a 1 ft (0.30 m), the black granite deity of Vishnu in the form of Badrinarayan.

The deity is considered by many Hindus to be one of eight swayam vyakta kshetras, or self-manifested deities of Vishnu Mata Murti Ka Mela, which commemorates the descent of river Ganges on mother earth, is the most prominent festival celebrated in the Badrinath Temple. Although Badrinath is located in North India, the head priest, or Rawal, is traditionally a Nambudiri Brahmin chosen from the South Indian state of Kerala. The temple was included in the Uttar Pradesh state government Act No. 30/1948 as Act no. 16,1939, which later came to be known as Shri Badarinath and Shri Kedarnath Mandir Act. The committee nominated by the state government administers both the temples and has seventeen members on its board. The temple is mentioned in ancient religious texts like Vishnu Purana and Skanda Purana. It is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, an early medieval Tamil canon of the Azhwar saints from the 6th–9th centuries AD.