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Complete tour of Varanasi with official guide
4.9
45 Ratings
Varanasi
Experience the best of Varanasi with a complete tour led by an official guide. Immerse yourself in the evening Aarti, take a morning boat trip at sunrise, explore the city’s oldest parts on a heritage walk, visit the revered site of Sarnath, and witness the art of Benares silk weaving.
Experience the best of Varanasi with a complete tour led by an official guide. Immerse yourself in the evening Aarti, take a morning boat trip at sunrise, explore the city’s oldest parts on a heritage walk, visit the revered site of Sarnath, and witness the art of Benares silk weaving.
Duration:
16 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Varanasi - It includes all attractions of Varanasi city. It either takes two days or minimum 15 hours.
1-Morning boat ride- This boat tour is combination of a boat ride and a walking tour of the southern part of the old city to explore the cultural diversity of Varanasi along with the oldest alive site in the whole Varanasi.
2-Evening Ganga…
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Varanasi - It includes all attractions of Varanasi city. It either takes two days or minimum 15 hours.
1-Morning boat ride- This boat tour is combination of a boat ride and a walking tour of the southern part of the old city to explore the cultural diversity of Varanasi along with the oldest alive site in the whole Varanasi.
2-Evening Ganga Arti-The Aarti ceremony is organised program to thank to Ganges for divine character of river. It takes place near the Ganges River.
3-Sarnath-Sarnath is a famous place in Varanasi and it the destination for cultures like Hindu Buddha and Jain. Sarnath is the place where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma (Sermon) then Buddhist Sangha (Association) has originated as well as came into existence. It is situated at-least 13 Km to north-east of Varanasi.
Or City tour Other than old part-This tour is basically known for outer part of city. It doesn’t have glimpses of old part. There are some other temples other than the Kashi Vishwanath temple to be seen.
What's Included
- Local guide
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Morning Boat Trip
- Local guide
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Morning Boat Trip
What's Not Included
- Excess luggage charges (where applicable)
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Hotel ,Food and drinks
- Tipping and any kind of Rikshaw if required
- Entrance tickets of monuments
- Excess luggage charges (where applicable)
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Hotel ,Food and drinks
- Tipping and any kind of Rikshaw if required
- Entrance tickets of monuments
Additional Information
A comprehensive tour of Varanasi takes no less than 13 hours, but it is completed within a day, starting in the morning and ending in the late evening. Typically, there are four major sightseeing experiences that most visitors to Varanasi look forward to: the Evening Aarti, an evening ceremony filled with chanting mantras, lights, and sacred music; the…
A comprehensive tour of Varanasi takes no less than 13 hours, but it is completed within a day, starting in the morning and ending in the late evening. Typically, there are four major sightseeing experiences that most visitors to Varanasi look forward to: the Evening Aarti, an evening ceremony filled with chanting mantras, lights, and sacred music; the Morning Boat Trip at sunrise to witness life on the ghats unfolding beautifully; a Heritage Walk through the oldest parts of the city; and a trip to Sarnath, located just outside Varanasi and one of Buddhism’s most revered sites.
Additionally, there is an opportunity to see the famous Benares silk being woven on looms.
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
Location
Varanasi
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(45 Ratings)
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Preetun1
Jun 28, 2024
Kashi comes alive thanks to Vimalji's wonderful story telling - Excellent trip of Varanasi made more memorable thanks to the meticulous planning by our guide Vimalji. We were there for less than 48 hours but within this time, Vimalji introduced us to the place, it's history , it's wonderful cuisine, the local fervour and also ensured that all the rituals we had to perform was done without much hassles. Thank you for the wonderful time. Hope to meet again some day in Kashi Vimalji.
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Mampvigo
Mar 22, 2024
Visit Varanasi with a guide as God intended - We had to change guides at the end of our route through India, in Varanasi, and we couldn't have had a better guide. He knows the city inside out, he has a very fun personality and the two days we were with him he made the trip much more enjoyable and fun.
100% recommended if you want to learn more about India in a fun way. In addition to that, he even helped us with haggling when buying.
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Navigator15782384503
Mar 15, 2024
Memorable - Vimal Ji is a terrific guide and has a lot of patience to handle his audience. He is well informed and states the facts . I would surely recommend him.
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Claudia_i
Mar 6, 2024
Great guide and great experience - I loved the tour and the experience overall. I would have liked to do a bit more in terms of visiting and sightseeing, but overall it was great.
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Navigator02255259643
Mar 3, 2024
Religious and historic tour - The trip was very well planned by Mr Vimal in a short time. All our stay and transportation was excellently handled by Vimal and team. The experienced guides Varanasi (Sunita) and Ayodhya (Ravi) were very knowledgeable. Cab personnel(Manoj) too handled commute very well.
Thanks to the entire team to make our travel experience a memorable one.
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Seaside28257503170
Feb 28, 2024
Our spiritual Varanasi trip - Vimal Ji is like Modi ki guarantee. An amazing guide who made sure we had a great time in Varanasi. All the pre agreed tour plan items were fulfilled right on time.
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Bela
Feb 14, 2024
Knowledgeable guide in Varanasi - Vimal Pathak was our guide in Varanasi, he came to pick us up from our hotel Brij Rama. He has knowledge and has elaborated information of the very old Heritage and historical culture of Varanasi.
He is the most senior experienced guide. He is also president of the tour guide association.
While showing us around, he explained us all about history of all places we visited & he was very funny at times & has a soothing voice, we found out he was a RJ at radio station. Kashi Vishwanath Temple tour with him was a divine experience. Unforgettable evening Ganga Arti was a soulful experience where he had reserved a sitting space for us. We visited all the ghats with him & he explained all the history about them. He was very patient with me as I had a hard time climbing up & down on all the steps due to my knee issues.
He explained us about Sarnath place where Buddha preached his first sermon after enlightenment in Bodh Gaya.
One more unique thing to mention, he takes excellent candid pictures.
We highly recommend him as your tour guide if you visit Varanasi. He was kind enough to send me an item I wanted from Kashi & ship to my city.
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Mayal766
Jan 19, 2024
The best experience of Varanasi - I highly recommend Vimal as a tourguide in Varanasi! He is extremely respectful and tailored a daily program specifically for us, including a private boat tour, walk though the old town, sarnath, temples, evening arthi with the best seats, delicious foot spots and more. We spent an entire day together from 6am to 7pm and felt comfortable throughout. Vimal is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about his city. He went out of his way to provide us a memorable experience. We could not have asked for more! I definitely recommend his services to anyone visiting Varanasi wanting to learn about this special place from a local!
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Add55
Jan 16, 2024
Varanasi Dec-23 - Were group of 7 incl. elderly parents. Vimalji arranged a lovely tour covering main temples, ghats & historical sites over 3 days. He took particular care in handling elders (wheelchairs etc). He also seemed to know best spots for local food & sari shopping. But most interesting were the morning (mini) bus-rides where he shared stories from the Puranas along with personal anecdotes. Worth it.
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Prasad_satkar
Jan 9, 2024
Excellent guide Services in Varanasi - We had an excellent experience in Varanasi courtesy Vimal Pathak. He helped us with finalising our itinerary for 2.5 days also arranging sightseeing, cab, boat ride, Ganga Aarti and all. He is well versed with mythology, history as well as science and narrates excellent stories about Banaras. Cherry on top was when he made us taste Banarasi chaat from a shop which was heavily crowded and we wouldn't have dared to order if we were on our own. We will certainly recommend anyone visiting Varanasi to contact Vimal for all the help over there.
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