Varanasi Private Guided Tour: Spiritual Boat Ride, Historic Ghats, Temple Visits, and Ganga Aarti

Embark on a private guided tour of Varanasi, exploring the spiritual boat ride on the Ganges, historic Ghats, temple visits, and witnessing the mesmerizing Ganga Aarti.

Duration: 13 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Banaras Ghats - Boat Ride: Early morning we will pick you up from your Hotel at 5:00 AM in Summer / 6:00 Am in Winter and start your day with a sunrise boat ride on the Ganges river. The boat ride will start from Dashashwamedh Ghat & Will finish at Manikarnika Ghat get a Heritage Walk along with narrow lanes, you will walk It is a mystical and…
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • English Speaking tour guide
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Tea and coffee included
  • 1:30 Hours Sunrise Boat ride on the Ganges
  • Air-conditioned transportation
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Early morning we will be taken for a boat ride on the Ganges. It is a mystical and spiritual experience as you watch people offering water to the Sun God and devotees taking a holy dip in the Ganges. We will visit all the famous Ghats of Varanasi via boat and return to the hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, see the “Temple Tour” most religious Kashi…

Location
Banaras Ghats
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Yuminwei
Oct 5, 2024
Nice experience - Sunny is experienced and knowledgeable about the history of Varanasi. He knows where to get the best views for the morning prayer and explained the customary practices to us. The morning boat ride was fantastic as well.
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Connector16178714681
Oct 2, 2024
Private Varanasi day tour - This tour was amazing and Varanasi is a spiritual experience that everyone must have. Sunny was a fantastic and knowledgeable guide who was very organised and made the day enjoyable. Thank you Sunny!
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Alanfavellackey
Oct 1, 2024
Spiritual capital dawn to dusk - 10/10. Unmissable experience in Varanasi, India. Sunny took us on a truly unique day adventure, exploring the culture, spirituality, and architecture and meeting plenty of people, too. It was a lot of fun. It was a chance to be mindful. To learn. To connect. I loved it. Sunny has also studied and was a knowledgeable storyteller.
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329sabryb
Sep 30, 2024
Exceptionnel - What beautiful discoveries of the city, Sunny is a very competent Guide, he will answer all your questions. He showed us the non-tourist corners of the city. We could not have dreamed of having a better Guide to discover Varanasi! Thank you very much 🙏
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Ankur
Sep 29, 2024
Kashi a dope tour - A mesmerising trip and guide “Sunny” was out of the world in fulfilling all my wish list for Varanasi- was an wonderful experience
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Shekhars2019
Sep 28, 2024
Amazing experience of Kashi/Sarnath/Ayodhya with Arvind - We had a fantastic tour of Kashi, Sarnath, and Ayodhya in August - many thanks to our guide Arvind who made this trip so vey memorable. Arvind was extremely knowledgeable, so very resourceful, accommodating with all our requests, and sincere. He shared his wealth of knowledge about every place we visited so we knew the history and background of each religious and tourist spot. We started with Arvind as our tour guide in Kashi for the first day but after the amazing experience requested him to accompany us for the remaining 2 days during our visit to Ayodhya as well. Not only did he take us to all the religious temples and sights, making arrangements for us to have darshan from the closest proximity in all temples we also witnessed/experienced Ganga Arathi from the best possible vantage point. He also went out of his way to make all the arrangements for us to participate in other activities (e.g., getting food catered/transported/assist-in-distribution for poor feeding) and recommending/escorting us to well-known weavers (reputable and reasonable) and silk shops in Benares for purchases. Throughout our stay, he was with us from morning till night supporting us in every possible way. He also made transportation arrangements for us on the 3rd day for other activities we wanted to do in Kashi. Arvind is very customer focused and makes sure that he is able to support his clients in every way possible so visitors can have the best experience. We highly recommend Arvind to anyone looking to experience Kashi/Benares/Ayodhya/Prayag and other surrounding areas.
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Tourist51802894665
Sep 27, 2024
Very nice day!!!! - It was a very nice day. Our guide, Sunny was very knowledgeable, informative and gave us a lot of information about the city. He took us to very special places that noone can find on its own. It's totally recommended...
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Emmaby8845va
Sep 24, 2024
Ultimate 1 day Varanasi - My guide Sunny was excellent, despite not being able to go on the sunrise cruise due to the high water levels of the Ganges I had a very full day of sightseeing, including a few extra stops that I mentioned (Death Hotel, lunch at Taj Ganges) that I would like to include. Driver was excellent and car was freshly cleaned and new, I felt very safe at all times.
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Escape62053657136
Sep 21, 2024
Tour like a local, wonderful time in Varanasi! - Arvind is my tour guide, I have a wonderful time. He definately know the trip to avoid the crowd, puting you to the right spot to take picture or watch the Ganga Aarti. I did do alot of home work on Hinduism, yet he is knowledgeable to tell me more. Most importantly he warn you about what is coming, thus you set expectation what is real religion activities and what is tourist trap. Definately recommend this tour!
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Moritz300590
Sep 25, 2024
A Day in Varanasi - The tour with our guide Sunny was good, the boat trip in the morning definitely has a special character, whereby due to the high tide only one large excursion boat has departed for all tourists. But all tours probably felt like this:) Sunny was able to tell us many exciting things about India, religion and the city. The transfer by car was also problem-free. Visiting the sights was also worthwhile. What we didn’t like so much, however, was that we were invited to a silk spinning mill as well as for chai drinking, but in the end it became a sales show. You didn't have to buy anything, but it was a little uncomfortable.
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