6-Day Nepal Buddhist Pilgrimage Tour Package (Kathmandu and Lumbini)

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Arrival in Kathmandu.⌄

   Check in hotel. Hang around in tourist place thamel.

   Overnight: Overnight at 3 star Hotel (Thamel Eco Resort or the Address Kathmandu Hotel)

2. 2Sightseeing tour in Kathmandu.⌄

   Patan Durbar Square, Kathmandu Durbar Square & Swayambhunath (Monkey Temple. The square, situated in the heart of the city, consists of enchanting melange of palace buildings, artistic courtyards and graceful pagoda temples. The former royal palace complex is the center of Patan's religious and social life and houses a museum containing an array of bronze statues and religious objects. There are three main courtyards or chowks, so named central Mul Chowk, Sundari Chowk and Keshav Narayan Chowk in the square. The Sundari Chowk holds in its center a masterpiece of stone architecture, the Royal bath called Tushahity.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at 3 star Hotel (Thamel Eco Resort or the Address Kathmandu Hotel)

3. 3Drive/Fly Lumbini.⌄

   After taking breakfast, we will move towards Lumbini by drive or by flight. If by drive it takes about 8 hour and if by flight 1 hour.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at Hotel peace palace or similar

4. 4Lumbini Sightseeing.⌄

   Is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupendahi district of Nepal. It is sometimes claimed to be the place where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who as the Buddha Gautama founded the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha lived between roughly 623 and 543 BCE. Lumbini is one of four magnets for pilgrimage that sprang up in places pivotal to the life of the Buddha, the others being at Kushinagar, Bodh Gaya and Sarnath. Lumbini was where the Buddha lived until the age of 29. Lumbini has a number of temples, including the Mayadevi temple, and others under construction. Also located here is the Puskarini or Holy Pond where the Buddha's mother took the ritual dip prior to his birth and where he, too, had his first bath, as well as the remains of Kapilvastu palace. At other sites near Lumbini, earlier Buddhas were, according to tradition, born, achieved ultimate awakening and finally relinquished earthly form.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at Hotel peace palace or similar

5. 5Drive/Fly back to Kathmandu.⌄

   After breakfast at hotel drive back or flight back to Kathmandu.

   Meals: Breakfast

   Overnight: Overnight at 3 star Hotel (Thamel Eco Resort or the Address Kathmandu Hotel)

6. 6Departure.⌄

   After breakfast at Hotel, Free time until departure time, then we will give private transport for departure to airport.

   Meals: Breakfast