Varanasi Ganga Aarti Premium Experience
- 3 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 3 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
✅ What Makes This Tour Unique ✅ Experience the Evening Ganga Aarti from the best viewing location, away from unnecessary chaos ✅ Enjoy a guided and well-organized visit, perfect even during peak evening crowds ✅ Learn the deeper spiritual meaning and symbolism of the Aarti rituals from a knowledgeable local guide ✅ Witness an authentic daily ceremony, not a staged or tourist-only performance ✅ Ideal for travelers seeking a pure spiritual and cultural experience in Varanasi ✅ Thoughtfully designed for first-time visitors and those looking for a calm, meaningful evening
Inclusions
What's included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off by private vehicle [If needed]
- Professional Private Guide Licensed by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India
- A seating arrangement offering one of the best views of the Aarti
What's not
- Food, Drink and any personal expenses on rituals.
- Tips
Itinerary
Aarti is a Hindu ritual, in which light is offered to one or more deities. Aarti also refers to the songs sung in praise of the deity, when the offering of lamps is being offered. Hindus in India worship the river Ganges as goddess. Every evening in Varanasi, aarti is performed at the Dashashwamedh ghat. We can watch it from the ghat or from the waterside in a boat. It is a beautiful, resonant, and majestic spectacle with a very precise choreography involving rituals performed by several priests with the sound of bells, drums, cymbals, and Sanskrit mantras. The river is also worshiped with flower petals.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Varanasi Day Tours
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
- A maximum of 8 people per booking
How it compares in Varanasi
- Its from-price is 50% below the median of the 494 experiences we list in Varanasi.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 98 of 494.
- 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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