Maheshwar River Ghats

• The ghats are still working riverfront, not a monument set aside for visitors.
• Maheshwari handloom weaving has been practised here since the eighteenth century.
• Evening lamp offerings drift downriver in the hundreds.

• Sit on the ghat steps for the dawn prayer
• Take a rowboat upriver at first light
• Watch a Maheshwari sari come off the loom

The Narmada is revered along its whole length, and Maheshwar is a traditional halt on the river's circumambulation route.

• Handloom workshop visit with a weaving family
• Riverside breakfast of poha and jalebi