Manikaran in the Parvati valley has hot springs so hot that food is cooked in them, and the langar at the gurdwara there is cooked in the spring water. Rice is put in cloth bags and lowered in.
The site is shared. It is a Hindu pilgrimage place associated with Shiva and Parvati and a Sikh one associated with a visit by Guru Nanak Dev Ji and Bhai Mardana Ji, and both establishments are there together and have been for a long time.
The hill gurdwaras generally, at Manikaran, Rewalsar, Paonta, Kiratpur and Anandpur, mark the edge of the plain where the Sikh tradition met the hill states.
Rewalsar in Mandi district is shared three ways, by Buddhists as the birthplace of Padmasambhava, by Hindus, and by Sikhs for a gurdwara built by Ranjit Singh Ji.
These shared sites are the ordinary condition of religion in this region and they are less discussed than the disputes.
The springs are geothermal and the valley sits on a fault. That is also why the road into it is closed by landslides several times a year and why the pilgrimage season is short.
Guru Nanak Sahib Ji is recorded in the tradition as having visited, and the site is shared with a Hindu observance of long standing.
Manikaran, Rewalsar, Paonta and Hemkunt are the mountain edge of the Sikh sacred map, and the journeys to them are made by families from the plains in summer.