Arrival in Delhi. You will be welcomed by our local representative. Transfer to the hotel and check in.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Then, on route for a visit of the city of Delhi. The capital of India is a fascinating, complex and contradictory city, filled with beauty, dynamism and where the past coexists with the present.

Visit Qutub Minar, tower of the victory which was built in the 12th century by Qutub -ud-din Aibak. In its vast court raises itself an iron pillar which goes back to the 4th century and which carries a registration in Sanskrit in the style Gupta. Visit the Door of India, memory of the World War I and the road which leads to the residence of the President and which is flanked by the buildings of the parliament and of the secretarial department of the government.

Sightseeing at Delhi Museum to see Buddha’ relic. (subject) (afternoon audience with HH Karmapa at KIBI. (Karmapa International Buddhist Institute) Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide.

Transfer to the airport and flight for Varanasi, also known under the name of Benares or ” city of the lights “, which is the holy city of Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. It is one of the oldest cities of India. On arrival transfer and installation to the hotel.

Free time to visit and walk along the Ganges. At nightfall, you will assist to the daily rite dedicated to the God Shiva and his wife Sandgrouse, goddess of the Ganges. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Visit of Sarnath 10 km from Varanasi, the place where the Buddha first gave His teachings, 2600 years ago, known as ‘The 4 Noble Truths’ to His first 5 disciples, also called the first turning of the Wheel of Dharma.

At Deer Park, you will go off to explore the stupa of Dharmek. Your guide will take you then to the museum of Sarnath which contains the famous capital of the column of emperor Ashoka, numerous statues dating from the Gupta period, as well as stupas.

Then, visit of the temple of Mulagandhakuti Vihara mural paintings of which redraw the events of the life of the Buddha. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide.

Drive to Bodhgaya. Transfer to the hotel in Bodhgaya and check in. Lunch on route and dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Group visits to the main Temple. Bodhgaya is known to be the place where Siddhartha Gautama reached the awakening and Buddha’s state at the foot of the tree of Bodhi, 2 600 years ago.

Around this sacred tree, you can join the crowd of pilgrims for meditation or whatever you wish to do. The city is one of the 4 holy places of the Buddhism; the others being Sarnath and Kushinagar, in Uttar Pradesh, and Lumbini, in Nepal. After Lunch free time. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Drive to Mahakala cave, Sujata and local monastery sightseeing. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel. Free time for individual practice. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Early morning drive to Vaishali, via visiting Rajgir and Nalanda.

Today you will go off to explore two high places for Buddhism. You will go to Vaishali where Buddha preached his last sermon. A profound philosophic debate took place there, 110 years after the Parinirvâna of Buddha.

This important gathering concerned the conservation of the teaching of the Buddha and the future of Buddhism. Then you will discover the ruins of the oldest Buddhist university, Nalanda established in 5th century before JC, within whom the most famous Indian scholars came to perfect their training.

In the afternoon, you will discover Rajgir or “Vulture’s Peak ” which owes its name to the shape of the rock where the Buddha spent several years of his life. In this sacred place, He gave important sermons such as the teaching of the Prajnaparamita, more known under the name of “Heart Sutra”.

Regularly sung by the followers of Buddhism during meetings and practices dedicated to the meditation, it contains key concepts of the Buddhist philosophy. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. We leave Bodhgaya to Kushinagar via visiting Kesariya Stupa, built by the King Ashoka.

It is one of, if not, largest stupa in India. Lunch on route and dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide.

Visit of the place and monastery where Buddha, at the age of 80, has left our world in passing in the state of Mahaparinirvana. (Buddha was finally released from the eternal cycle of revival and leaving with us with all his wisdom and knowledge). Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Drive to Lumbini. Formalities of immigration at the Indo-Nepalese border. Indian visa with multiple entries is a must. On arrival to Lumbini, checking to the hotel. Lunch on route and dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Visit to Lumbini Garden and Kapilavastu. Lumbini, registered to the world heritage of Humanity, is considered a sacred land for Buddhists from all over the world.

It is a small Nepalese village located on the border of India, which is considered the traditional place of birth of the Buddha in former India, her mother having given birth on the road of Kapilavastu, the capital of the family clan. Discovered in the holy place of Lumbini of the ruins of the former monastery, the crowned tree Bodhi, the pillar of Ashoka and the temple of Mahadevi which is on the precise place where Buddha was born.

From dawn till the evening, the pilgrims come from various countries to sing and meditate on the site. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Sravasti is the place where Buddha spent the largest amount of time, being a major city in ancient India. His first visit to Sravasti was at the invitation of Anathapindika, whom he met in Rajagaha.

The main monasteries in Sravasti were the JetAvana and the Pubbarama. This is the place where he turned the Third Wheel of Dharma.

Also called the Place of the Twin Miracle, where Buddha showed his supernatural abilities in performance of miracles. Full day sightseeing at Sravasti. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Then drive to Lucknow, free time, then transfer to the train station to Agra.

Lunch on route dinner and overnight at the hotel or on the train depending of the schedule.

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Visit of the Taj Mahal, bright mausoleum made of white marble, built by the Emperor Moghol Shah Jahan to immortalize the love it carried to his dead wife Mumtaz Mahal.

It is without doubt the most famous monument of India and illustrate the esthetic perfection which reached Indo-Muslim art under the dynasty Moghol. It is unquestionably, one of the 7 world wonders.

Visit of the red Fort, built by Emperor Akbar in 1565 and developed by his successors, which contains in its bulwarks several palaces, a Mosque, courtrooms of Emperors Moghol.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel. 

Breakfast at the hotel and meeting with the guide. Then drive to Delhi. Lunch on route and dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Flight back home or onward to your next adventures.