New Delhi Trip Overview
India and Nepal Buddhist trip covers all Buddhist holy sites – Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Sravasti, Lumbini, Kushinagar, Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, New Delhi.
Private Tour for you and your group.
Our service includes –
Luxury Accommodation
Luxury AC Transport
Delicious Foods (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Experienced Tour Guide
Monument Entrance Fees.
All fees and taxes
Note –
1. All international travellers require multiple entry Indian visa.
2. Twin sharing based Accommodation.
3. One triple sharing room in case of odd number group size.
4. New Delhi sightseeing places are closed on Monday.
Optional –
Please book this tour at least two weeks in advance before start date. We arrange such trips for bigger groups as well. But this platform only allows up to 15 person in one booking. If your group has more than 15 person then book multiple times and just send note of it. We will execute it as one group.
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Duration: 12 days
Starts: New Delhi, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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India and Nepal Buddhist trip covers all Buddhist holy sites – Bodhgaya, Varanasi, Sravasti, Lumbini, Kushinagar, Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, New Delhi.
Private Tour for you and your group.
Our service includes –
Luxury Accommodation
Luxury AC Transport
Delicious Foods (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
Experienced Tour Guide
Monument Entrance Fees.
All fees and taxes
Note –
1. All international travellers require multiple entry Indian visa.
2. Twin sharing based Accommodation.
3. One triple sharing room in case of odd number group size.
4. New Delhi sightseeing places are closed on Monday.
Optional –
Please book this tour at least two weeks in advance before start date. We arrange such trips for bigger groups as well. But this platform only allows up to 15 person in one booking. If your group has more than 15 person then book multiple times and just send note of it. We will execute it as one group.
Itinerary
Day 1: New Delhi
Stop At: India Gate, Rajpath Near Connaught Place New Delhi, New Delhi 110001 India
After breakfast at Hotel, enjoy Delhi sightseeing. Visit India Gate – monumental sandstone arch in New Delhi, dedicated to the troops of British India who died in wars fought between 1914 and 1919.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi 110011 India
After Lunch at local restaurant, visit National Museum – The Relics of Buddha at National Museum is one of the highlights of this museum. Must visit place for every Buddhist.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Raj Ghat, Mahatma Gandhi Road, New Delhi 110002 India
Further visit Raj Ghat – it is a memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi, India.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: Lunch in local restaurant
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in New Delhi Hotel.
Day 2: New Delhi – Lucknow – Sravasti (8 hrs)
Stop At: Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport, Amausi, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226009, India
After Breakfast, transfer to Delhi domestic airport to board flight to Lucknow. After lunch in Lucknow drive to Sravasti. On Arrival, Check In and Dinner at Hotel in Sravasti.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: Lunch in Lucknow in local restaurant.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Sravasti in Hotel.
Day 3: Sravasti – Lumbini (160 KMs , 6 hrs)
Stop At: Jetavana, Katra, Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh 271805, India
It is a place where Gautam Buddha spent most of his monastic time and delivered a large number of discourses included a major part of Tripitaka at Sravasti.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Angulimala Stupa, Mahet Rd, Shravasti India
It is a part of Jetvana Monastery – Angulimala Stupa represents the immense influence of Gautama Buddha, which was indispensable for the development of civilization. The stupa is one of the major monuments of Shravasti.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: After lunch in Sravasti Hotel, drive to Lumbini. Pass through Nepal border by clearing Indian and Nepal Immigration.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Lumbini Hotel.
Day 4: Lumbini
Stop At: Maya Devi Temple, Lumbini Nepal
Maya Devi Temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is known as the birthplace of Gautam Buddha.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Araurakot Asoka Pillar, H3WW+279, Kapilvastu 32800, Nepal
The Ashoka Pillar in Lumbini is one of the 3rd Century stone pillars built under the reign of Emperor Ashoka. It was erected as a mark of respect by Ashoka after he visited Lord Buddha’s place of birth and decided to accept Buddhism.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Lumbini Hotel.
Day 5: Lumbini – Kushinagar (180 KMs, 6hrs)
Stop At: Parinirvana Stupa, Kushinagar India
It is a place where Gautam Buddha took his last breath. Also, visit Rambhar Stupa.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ramabhar Stupa, Kushinagar India
This is where Buddha’s body is said to have been cremated, and monks and pilgrims can often be seen offering lotus flowers and meditating by the palm-tree-lined path that leads around the 34m-diameter structure.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Kushinagar Hotel.
Day 6: Kushinagar – Vaishali – Bodhgaya (320 KMs, 10 hrs)
Stop At: Buddhas Relic Stupa, X4W9+85J, Chak Ramdas, Bihar 844128, India
Kushinagar to Bodhgaya, en-route visit Vaishali.
one-eighth of the ashes of Buddha are preserved over here in a casket.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ananda Stupa, Shanti Marg Kolhua,Bihar, Vaishali 844128 India
Gautama Buddha preached his last sermon before the departure of Lord Buddha. It was in Vaishali that Lord Buddha announced that he would be approaching the Mahaparinirvana before leaving to Kushinagar. This pillar has Asiatic Lion on the top.
Duration: 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: Lunch in Vaishali in local Restaurant
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Bodhgaya Hotel.
Day 7: Bodhgaya – Rajgir – Nalanda – Bodhgaya
Stop At: Griddhakuta Peak, Griddhakuta Hill, Rajgir India
The Vulture Peak is also known as the Holy Eagle Peak or Griddhakuta was the Buddha’s favourite retreat in Rajagaha (now Rajgir) and the scene for many of his discourses.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Nalanda University Ruins, Nalanda 803101 India
Visit Nalanda University which was one of the oldest Universities of the world & International Centre for Buddhist Studies.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Bimbisar Jail, Rajgir 803116 India
Bimbisara was imprisoned by his son Ajatashatru to ascend the throne of the kingdom of Magadha. Ajatashatru later ordered his father’s release after the birth of his first child, but by then it was too late and Bimbisara had already died. This was reported to have taken place around 491 BC.
King Bimbisara met the Buddha for the first time prior to the Buddha’s enlightenment, and later became an important disciple that featured prominently in certain Buddhist suttas. He is recorded to have attained sotapannahood, a degree of enlightenment in Buddhist teachings. Although Bimbisara let the women in his palace visit Buddha in his monastery in the evenings; the women wanted a hair-and-nail stupa they could use to venerate the Buddha any time. Bimbisara spoke with Buddha who complied with their request.
Duration: 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: Lunch in Rajgir in local Restaurant
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Bodhgaya Hotel.
Day 8: Bodhgaya
Stop At: Dungeshwari, P2PX+M23, Bihar 823003, India
It is believed that Lord Buddha meditated in the three caves here before continuing his journey to Bodhgaya. Here buddha spent 7 years and became extremely weak starved himself to death.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Falgu River, Bihar
Before attaining Enlightenment, Gautama Buddha practised asceticism for six years on the banks of the river, residing in a forest near the village of Uruvilvā. After realizing that strict asceticism would not lead to Enlightenment, he recuperated after bathing in the river and receiving a bowl of milk-rice from the milkmaid Sujātā.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Sujata Kuti, 8 Km from Bodh Gaya, Bodh Gaya India
The stupa was dedicated to the milkmaid Sujata, from the village of Bakraur, she offered Gautam Buddha milk and rice at this spot, thereby ending his seven years of fasting and asceticism. Later Gautama realised that one cannot attain enlightenment by self-indulgence or self-abasement
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Great Buddha Statue Road Daijokyo Buddhist Temple, Bodh Gaya India
The statue is 19.507 m high in meditation pose or dhyana mudra seated on a lotus in the open air. It took seven years to complete with the help of 12,000 masons.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Bodhgaya Hotel.
Day 9: Bodhgaya
Stop At: Bodhi Tree, Bodh Gaya India
This is the tree under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment or Bodhi
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Mahabodhi Temple, Bihar 824231, Bodh Gaya 824231 India
The place where Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Bodhgaya Hotel.
Day 10: Bodhgaya – Varanasi
Stop At: Sarnath Deer Park, Varanasi India
After attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya the Buddha went to Sarnath, and it was the place where he preached his first discourse in the deer park to set in motion the ‘Wheel of the Dharma”.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sarnath Museum, Museum, Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221007, India
Sarnath Museum is the oldest site museum of Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath, by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight Stay in Varanasi Hotel.
Day 11: Varanasi – Delhi
Stop At: Varanasi, Ganges River Bank, D31/178, Dashashwamedh Ghat Rd, Bhairavi ghat, Bangali Tola, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221001, India
Early morning boat ride on Ganges River. Sunrise on the riverfront, as seen from a boat, can be a spiritually uplifting sight.
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch: After Lunch, proceed to Varanasi Airport to board flight to New Delhi.
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight stay in New Delhi Hotel.
Day 12: New Delhi – Departure
Stop At: Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037, India
After breakfast, transfer to New Delhi Airport to board flight for further destination.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
