05 Nights / 06 Days Duration
Bhubaneswar - Konark - Puri - Lalitigiri-Ratnagiri-Udaygiri - Kayam-Langudi - Bhubaneswar Places Covered
Buddhist Tour Tour Type
Odisha now days becomes one of the leading tourist place in India, here thousands of temple, cultural and traditional monuments along with natural beauty of forest and wildlife etc brings tourist attention. Apart from all these Buddhism and Buddhist Sculptures located in Odisha brings tourist attention towards Odisha Buddhist Tours. After great battle of Kalinga, Samrat Ashok adopts Buddhism and constructed many Buddhist Temples in different places of Odisha. Some of the Buddhist creatures are still alive and tourist love to watch those. Dhauli Giri Buddhist Temple is one of the iconic place for the tourist those visited Odisha for Buddhist Tour.
The capital city Bhubaneswar is a nice place to stay and relax; here you can get all facilities to enjoy. Also it is very nearer to Buddhist temple located in nearby places, so most of the foreign tourist loves to stay in Bhubaneswar during their Odisha Buddhist Tours. Tourists get internal satisfaction and piece after visit Buddhist temples, so day by day Buddhist Tour Packages in Odisha increasing. If you also want some special and peaceful time in your life then book Buddhist Tours.
Itinerary
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Day 1: BHUBANESWAR
Arrival at Bhubaneswar and Transfer to Hotel. Rest of the day free for own activities. Overnight at Bhubaneswar.
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Day 2: BHUBANESWAR
During morning after breakfast full day city tour of Temple city Bhubaneswar famous for beautiful architecture (One of the Most Important Temple, Mukteswar Temple, influenced by Buddhism) Later Odisha (Orissa) State Museum with lot of Buddhist Sculptors collected from different Budhist archaeological sites of Odisha (Orissa) and Khandagiri & Udaygiri Jain Caves of 2nd Cen B C. Overnight at Bhubaneswar.
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Day 3: BHUBANESWAR - DHAULI - PIPILI - KONARK - PURI - BHUBANESWAR
After breakfast visit Dhauli, famous for Asokan Rock Edicts and Place where battle of Kalinga was Fought in 261 B.C that made a great change in the mind of Ashok so that he became Buddhist. Also Visit Peace Pagada. Later visit Pipili appliqu village and World heritage site Sun Temple of Konark (Watch the Buddhist influence on this temple ) & Famous Jagannath Temple and Back to Bhubaneswar. Overnight at Hotel.
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Day 4: BHUBANESWAR - LALITIGIRI-RATNAGIRI - UDAYGIRI - UDAYGIRI - BHUBANESWAR
During morning after breakfast full day Excursion to Lalitigiri ( Archeological site of a Buddhist Monastery from 4th to 8th Cen A D ) with Monastery parts and many votive Stupa, all different Buddhist sculptors with Chaita hall and a Huge stupa from where caskets of Budhas relic is available, Ratnagiri, the Largest Buddhist monastery we have till know, flourished from 4th to 14th century A D with most of sculptors of Vajrayanic sect, hundreds of Votive Stupa & brick Stupa and huge monastery . Later visit Udaygiri, another huge Buddhist monastery which still under excavation ,back Bhubaneswar for overnight stay.
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Day 5: BHUBANESWAR - KAYAM-LANGUDI - BHUBANESWAR
Full day visit Kayam Hill Buddhist cave and Langudi Giri which one of recent excavation with ruins of Monastery, Stupas and lot of Mahayanic sculptors, Five Dhyani Buddhas. Back to Bhubaneswar. Overnight at Hotel.
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Day 6: DEPARTURE
Departure transfer to Bhubaneswar airport/rly station for onwards journey.