Meet our Representative/ Driver at the airport or Railway Station. Our representative will escort you to Your hotel for a pleasant overnight stay and you also receive a briefing about the next day’s program and tour ahead.

After a hearty breakfast, you join other tour members for your flight to Patna, the starting point of your Buddhist temple tour. Your tour guide escorts you to your hotel and you settle in for the night.

Vaishali is conveniently close to Patna and is the first destination you visit. This is where Buddha is said to have preached his last sermon. Incidentally, Vaishali is also the birthplace of Mahavira.

Early morning breakfast over you board a coach along with other members of the group for a visit to Rajgir. On the way you stop at Nalanda, the site of one of the oldest and biggest universities of the world. Rajgir is famously known for being the place where Buddha preached from the Vulture’s Peak and it is also the place where the Buddha placated a furious elephant through his calm approach. Rajgir, like Vaishali, is full of remnants of a glorious past. A full day ends with a well-earned rest in your hotel.

You start this morning on an important visit and that is to Bodhgaya, the place where Buddha attained enlightenment. Here you visit the Mahabodhi temple complex where the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment still exists. Bodhgaya will occupy all your time since there are other interesting temples, a bazaar and Museums with interesting artefacts. There are interesting caves in the neighbourhood and lots to see so you stay here for the night.

Early next day you set off on the excursion to the Mahabodhi temple followed by a visit to the other Buddhist temples set up by Japanese, Vietnamese and Bhutanese people. Pilgrims usually make an offering at the temples and buy mementoes from the bazaar. The evening is free for you to explore and you retire for the night. Early next morning you start on an excursion to nearby cave temples.

On the morning of 7th Day wake up Early next day to set off on the excursion to visit the other Buddhist temples set up by Japanese, Vietnamese and Bhutanese people and start on an excursion to nearby cave temples.

A delightful breakfast first thing in the morning makes you ready for the drive to Varanasi, the holiest and oldest surviving city in the world, where you check into your room and rest for the night.

It is time to wake up before the crack of dawn because you are going on a boat ride on the Ganges where you see hundreds of people praying and bathing. From the boat you get a look at the temples lining the bank and then return for lunch. A brief rest and you are off to visit Sarnath where Buddha preached his first sermon after enlightenment. You take in the Dhamek Stupa, the Chaukhandi Stupa, the Ashoka Pillar, the Museum and the Mulagandha Kuti Vihar. A dreamy day ends with your return to the hotel.

A bit of sightseeing in the alleys of Varanasi and some shopping is followed by your getting on the coach to Kushinagar where you book into your room for a comfortable rest for the night.

Kushinagar is where the Lord Buddha passed away and you will take in the Mahaparinirvana temple, the meditation park, Matha Kuar Shrine, Ramabhar stupa, the Kushinagar museum, the Japanese temple and other temples and the reclining statue of the Lord. Return to your hotel for the night.

Lumbini in Nepal is where the Lord Buddha was born as Prince Siddhartha in a royal family of the Sakya dynasty. He grew up here, married and had a child but, as per the astrologer’s forecast at the time of his birth, he left it all. Pilgrims visit the sanctorum where he was born then go on to the Maya Devi Temple, have a view of the Ashokan Pillar and visit the Buddhist temple, Japan Peace stupa and the China temple before returning to the hotel.

Pilgrims board a flight to Kathmandu and check into their room.

Pilgrims go on an excursion to the city where they find the ancient and awe-inspiring Swayambhunath and Boudhanath stupas. After that it is time to go shop, explore the local attractions and then finally return to the hotel.

Today you go on a visit to the nearby village of Nagarkot for a stupendous view of the mighty Himalayas on one side and the lovely Kathmandu Valley on the other. You have the choice of exploring the place or going on to the World Heritage site of the Changu Narayan temple.

You can go on an early morning flight over the Everest or relax or go shopping before catching the afternoon flight to Delhi where the tour ends.