Private Half-Day Tour in Sarnath from Varanasi

Hoogtepunten

Inbegrepen

Route

1. The driver will pick you up from any location or airport in Varanasi and will drive you towards Sarnath City.

   35 min

2. 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.

   40 minToegang inbegrepen

3. 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.

   40 minToegang inbegrepen

4. 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.

   40 minToegang inbegrepen

5. 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.

   40 minToegang inbegrepen

6. The driver will drop you back to your preferred location in Varanasi, with wonderful memories of Sarnath city.

   35 min

Annuleren

Gratis annuleren tot 24 uur voor aanvang, met volledige terugbetaling.

Reviews

Beoordelingen komen uit 14 reviews die onze boekingspartner verzamelt. Het zijn de eigen woorden van reizigers, in de volgorde waarin ze geschreven zijn — nooit herschikt om de ervaring mooier te maken.

Goed om te weten

How it compares in Varanasi

• Its from-price is 43% below the median of the 494 experiences we list in Varanasi.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 84 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).

See all 494 experiences in Varanasi