Journey of Buddha / Footsteps of Lord Buddha 7N 8D
Tour name– Journey of Buddha / Footsteps of Lord Buddha
Duration – 7N/8D
Destination – Bodhgaya – Varanasi (Sarnath) – Sravasti – Lumbini (Nepal) – KushinagarVaishaili – Nalanda – Rajgir – Bodhgaya
Day 1: BodhGaya ( D) –
Arrive at Gaya Intenational airport Our representative will welcome you at the airport and transfer you to the hotel. After check in and some rest, start visit to around Gaya, Uruvela forest, Mahakala Cave where Buddha practice the extreme method for 6 years, Sujata house, the place where Sujata offers the milk rice, Niranjana River, the river where Buddha flow his bowl, the place where Sudda offers the 8 tacks of grass to Buddha. Then return back to hotel and dinner there. After dinner, visit to Mahabodi Temple and 7 miracle places about (7) pm.
Mahabodi temple (where Buddha attained his enlightenment under Bodi tree and after his enlightenment, he spent 7 weeks in 7 different places in that garden).Night stay at Bodhgaya.
Day 2: Bodhgaya – Varanasi (Sarnath (About 260 Km – 6 hours) (B/L/D)
After early breakfast proceed to Varanasi (Sarnath) .
Arrive Varanasi around 12:00 noon and check in hotel and lunch there. After lunch, go to Sarnath to visit Sarnath Garden (DhammarajikaStupa, DhemmakStupa, Ashoka Pillar, MulagandakutiVihara, Sarnath Museum and ChaukhandiStupa).
Do some shopping near Monastery. After that, come back to hotel and dinner there. Night stay at Varanasi
Day 3: Varanasi (Sarnath) – Sravasti (About 350 Km – 8 hours) –
Early breakfast and proceed to Sravasti.Drive to Sravasti. Lunch on the way .Arrive at Sravasti .Saheth: Once of the site of Jetavana monastery, the place houses numerous shrines, stupas and monasteries . Maheth: Sprawling over an area of 400 acres, the place is identified with the remains of the city in original.
Angulimala’sStupa: PakkiKutti is believed to the Angulimala’sStupa.Night stay at Sravasti
Day 4: Sravasti – Lumbini (About 260 Km .- 6 Hr.) (B/L/D)
After breakfast . Drive to Lumbini “the birth place of Lord Buddha”. En route visit to Kapilavistu visit to Myanmar Monastery, Lawkamuni Stupa.We need to declare the documents to enter Nepal. Then go to Lumbini (approximate 25 Km away, 45 minutes drive). On arrival Lumbini check in hotel and lunch there. After lunch, then come back to hotel and dinner there. Night stay Lumbini.
Day 5: Lumbini – Kushinagar (About 210 Km .)
After breakfast ,start to visit Lumbini Garden (Buddha’s birth place, Mayadevi Pond, Ashoka Pillar and Bodi Tree). After sightseeing at Lumbini Garden drive to Kushinagar (where Buddha attained Mahaprinivana). We need to declare the documents to exit from Nepal. Arrive at Kushinagar about 2 pm check in hotel and lunch there. After lunch, visit to Mahaparinirvana Temple and Myanmar monastery, Matha-Kuar Shrine, the place where Buddha used water to wash himself last, and RamabharStupa (The Cremation Stupa). Night stay at Kushinagar.
Day 6: Kushinagar – Vaishaili – Patna
After breakfast drive to Vaishaili. Arrive at Vaishaili about 11 am, check in hotel and lunch there. After lunch, visit to the Relic Stupa, Sacred pond, Kauluha, Ashoka Pillar. Then drive continue to Patna . Arrive at Patna . check in hotel and dinner there. Night stay at Patna
Day 7: Patna – Rajgir – Nalanda – Bodhgaya (About 185 Km – 5 hours)
After breakfast visit -Rajgir – Rajgir or Rajgrih means the home of Royalty. This place has been associated with Lord Buddha and Buddhism .
Nalanda – Nalanda was a great center of learning in ancient time. Nalanda was one of the greatest monastic Universities of the ancient world.
OvernightArrive at Bodhgaya about (5) pm check in hotel. Night stay at Bodhgaya .
Day 8: Bodhgaya – drop
All visitors can pay homage at Mahabodi temple compound in the early morning which open at (4:00) am. We wish you are getting full satisfactions on your moments of miracle journeys and ready for flying back home. We will warmly give you a check out from hotel at 8:00 am. Our Indian representative will say thanks and goodbye at Gaya airport and hope to see you all again in journeys with us.