Yamuna Ghat (Vasudev Ghat)

The Yamuna Ghat near Kashmere Gate — its restored stretch now known as Vasudev Ghat — has become one of Delhi's most photogenic and atmospheric riverfronts, a rare place where the capital turns to face its river.

• For decades this bank below the 18th-century Qudsia Bagh was neglected and polluted; in 2024 the Delhi Development Authority reopened it as a landscaped, Mughal-style riverside park, the first ghat revived under a wider plan to reconnect Delhiites with the Yamuna.
• The ghat has two very different moods.
• At dawn in winter, the adjoining Yamuna Bazar stretch fills with hundreds of migratory Siberian seagulls that swirl and dive over the water — a spectacle that draws photographers and early-morning visitors, who take short country-boat rides out among the wheeling birds.
• In the evening, the restored Vasudev Ghat hosts a public Yamuna Aarti on select days (commonly Tuesdays and Sundays), around 5:30 PM in winter, its lamps reflected on the water below a landscaped charbagh (four-quartered) garden with a restored baradari pavilion, chhatris, lawns and a three-kilometre cycling track.
• It is a place to walk, cycle, watch birds and catch the river at its calmest.
• For vegetarian travellers the Kashmere Gate and Chandni Chowk area nearby is rich in pure-veg food — the Marwari thalis of Shri Hari Sharnam, and the sweets and snacks of Haldiram's and Bikanervala are all a short ride away.