 Presently at its highest point, the Govardhan hill is just 25m (80 feet) high and is a wide hill.It is a narrow sandstone hill known as Giriraj which is about 8 km in length.After Krishna protected the inhabitants of Vraj (Vridavan) from the wrath of Indra, he counseled them to worship Govardhana hill and they did by way of a Puja and a Parikrama (circumambulation) around the hill.