Varanasi Trip Overview
On this tour, you will be taken to the ancient city of Budda-age. You will be visiting Dhamek Stupa, Chaukhandi Stupa along with Tibetan Temple. Also, you have an amazing opportunity to explore the Sarnath museum which holds artifacts and scriptures dated back the 3rd century.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Varanasi, India
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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On this tour, you will be taken to the ancient city of Budda-age. You will be visiting Dhamek Stupa, Chaukhandi Stupa along with Tibetan Temple. Also, you have an amazing opportunity to explore the Sarnath museum which holds artifacts and scriptures dated back the 3rd century.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Varanasi, Varanasi, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
The driver will pick you up from any location or airport in Varanasi and will drive you towards Sarnath City.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Dhamek Stupa, Rishipattan Road 13 Km From Varanasi, Varanasi 221007 India
This is your first stop in Sarnath city. It is a massive stupa that originated as pre-Buddhist tumuli, in which ascetics were buried in a seated position, called chaitya.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Chaukhandi Stupa, Rishipattan Road, Varanasi 221007 India
The next stop will be another Buddhist stupa. These stupas have evolved from burial mounds and serve as a shrine for a relic of the Buddha.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tibetan Temple, Sarnath, Varanasi India
This city is home to a large number of twentieth-century Buddhist temples built and maintained by Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese monks. This temple houses a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha or Buddha in a resting position. Famous for its Thangka or Tibetan Buddhist paintings, and frescoes, the Tibetan Temple showcases many of these on the walls and ceilings.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Archaeological Museum, Near Chaukhandi Stupa Near Sangharama Monastery, Varanasi 221007 India
Last but not the least, you will be taken to a museum. Some notable images at the museum is of Buddha preaching, from the Gupta period, and the Lion Capital of Ashoka. Other objects like figures of birds, animals, male and female heads dating from 3rd century BC to 12th century AD and terracottas, decorated baked bricks and pots, images of Jain Tirthankaras Parshvanatha, and Vimalanatha, etc.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Varanasi, Varanasi, Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh
The driver will drop you back to your preferred location in Varanasi, with wonderful memories of Sarnath city.
Duration: 45 minutes
