3-hours Varanasi: Temple hopping with transfers

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1. Explore Varanasi, through its most popular and ancient temples in this super fun temple-hopping tour which will begin with guide picking you from your hotel at your feasible time! Your first stop is going to be the Durga temple, one of the most revered and famous temples of Varanasi, it is built in a striking red color and is believed that the idol of the goddess Durga emerged itself from the ground and not been placed by anyone. Explore this temple as your guide will tell you more interesting stories and fables related to this place.

   25 minAdmission included

2. Next up is the very famous Monkey temple or the Sankat Mochan temple, which is dedicated to the Monkey God. Known to relieve all the pilgrims from every sort of pain and trouble, you will see pilgrims in large number paying their respects here. Also, monkeys! You will see many monkeys roaming about the streets extremely casually!

   30 minAdmission included

3. Next up in line is the Tulsi Manas temple, another extremely famous and revered temple in Varanasi. Dedicated to the saint Tulsi Daas, the writer of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana, the walls of this temple have the whole Ramayana craved! Visited by people from all over the world, you will be amazed to see how the walls of this two-story temple enact the epic poem!

   30 minAdmission included

4. Move on as your guide then takes you to the Bharat Mata or the Mother India temple which is one of its kind in the entire world! Rather than worshiping any diety or idol, this unique temple has a massive map of undivided India which signifies how worshiping the motherland is of utmost importance!

   20 minAdmission included

5. Lastly, visit the Shri Vishwanath temple in the Banaras Hindu University, which is known to be one of the tallest temples in India and has a lot of interesting stories and fables attached to its making and belief!

   30 minAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Know before you go

How it compares in Varanasi

• Its from-price is 56% below the median of the 494 experiences we list in Varanasi.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Varanasi

Varanasi, on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, is one of the oldest living cities in the world, a sacred place of river steps, temples and silk looms.

Varanasi, also called Benares or Kashi, has been a place of pilgrimage for thousands of years, and Hindus come to bathe in the Ganges, to pray, and to die. Along the west bank, about eighty ghats, broad stone stairways, descend to the water, among them Dashashwamedh Ghat, where lamps and chanting mark the evening aarti ceremony. The Kashi Vishwanath Temple, dedicated to Shiva, stands in the old city's maze of narrow lanes.

Top-ranked sights in Varanasi: Manikarnika Ghat, Dashashwamedh Ghat, Ganges River (Ganga).

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