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.

Customer Ratings
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783dominiks
Dec 14, 2024
Recommended - We booked a one-day tour in Varanasi, which was very comprehensive and covered the main highlights in a single day. However, it’s important to note that the tour does not include entry into the Shi Krishna temple. Our guide, Balu, was very knowledgeable about the various sites and even included some additional temples in the itinerary. Unlike many other guides we encountered during our time in India, he didn’t pressure us to leave a review after the tour, which we appreciated.
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Journey65364834427
Dec 11, 2024
Tour - I had my tour with sunny had a great experience he was very knowledgeable and caring made me feel really welcomed and also took me to a nice place for curry ! The tour is really well designed and take you to different parts of the city emerging you to the local culture ! Loved it
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Hashul
Dec 1, 2024
Moving and authentic tour in Varanasi - We had a wonderful time with our guide Sunny on a tour of the fascinating and spiritual city of Varanasi. He really did a great a job showing us the authentic life here. Also was very accommodating when our flight was delayed and tailored the day to fit the last minute changes and still see everything! Thanks Sunny for showing us the amazing Varanasi!
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Sandra_b
Dec 1, 2024
Wonderful day trip - Had a wonderful day with our tour guide Arvind. He was extremely knowledgeable and friendly and made our day very enjoyable seeing all the major attractions. Even though a long day we appreciated the fact that we were taken back to hotel for breakfast and again in the afternoon before the evening ceremony to break the day up. Highly recommend Arvind who is fluent in both English and French.
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Sandra
Dec 1, 2024
Wonderful tour of Varanasi - Highly recommend this tour and our tour guide Arvind who is fluent in both and French. The tour covered all the major attractions in Varanasi and even though it is spread over the entire day from 5-6am to 8 pm there was the opportunity to go back to the hotel for breakfast and a break in the afternoon which we much appreciated Arvind was very knowledgeable and made it a very enjoyable day
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Carlyne_a
Nov 29, 2024
Great tour of Varanasi - highly recommend! - Great tour of Varanasi - highly recommend! Our tour guide Sunny was wonderful and provided important local cultural and historical insights that made the tour very special. A highlight was the moving Ganges arte early morning sunrise ceremony. A must do in Varanasi.
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Carlynea
Nov 27, 2024
Wonderful tour of Varanasi - would highly recommend! - Wonderful tour of Varanasi - would highly recommend! Sunny was an outstanding tour guide who showed us all the city highlights and unique sites of Varanasi. The gagna arte ceremonies were made especially meaningful due to the in-depth knowledge and local cultural expertise that Sunny brought to these events. A great way to wrap up a most memorable tour of India!
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Matildat273
Dec 5, 2024
Good tour that gave us a feel for the flavour of Varanasi - This tour covered all of the main highlights of Varanasi - we took a sunrise boat trip on the Ganges, walked around the old streets, visited the Buddhist site of Sarnath and saw the evening Aarti ceremony. We really enjoyed the Aarti ceremony which was fascinating and loved the morning boat ride. We also enjoyed a tour around Varanasi’s silk weaving district and getting to see various types of silk weaving. Our driver was punctual and polite and our guide Sunny was lovely. My friend felt ill in the morning and he was extremely accommodating about moving the tour around in order to allow her to get some rest. Our only issue was that Sunny didn’t stay with us all the time - for instance at Sarnath we explored the archaeological site and the temple on our own and felt we might have missed out on some information because of that. The price was also pretty steep, but most tours we looked at in Varanasi were. Overall, it was a great day and we felt we got a good flavour for Varanasi.
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Michael_l
Dec 8, 2024
Private 1-day tour of Varanasi - In a place like Varanasi with all its chaos, crowds, noise and no good maps and self guides, you need a person to take you around, get you places, get you best seats for the arti and get you in to temples and skip the lines. This tour for sure accomplishes that and more. However, when it comes to enriching this with good explanation of what’s going on, what does it mean and providing cultural background it was not there. I had to ask a lot of questions to get the information I was looking for but it was not very fulfilling. I would have liked to hear more from the guide. Otherwise I was satisfied with the tour.
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Sskhurana
Nov 19, 2024
Average avg avg tour, in an amazing city - Reasonable “tour” 1) forgot to pickup @630am for sunrise (of course you have to get up at 530 to be ready at 630, and then start calling at 7 to get a response by 8) 2) the driver Soni was good. The guide Abishek was still waking up at 9 am, made us stop for his breakfast, and was right off interested in knowing what we would like to shop for?!?! He continued to chew something all day long and would run us through sites despite us wanting to linger where we wanted. He then took us to a textile loom area and then naturally sit in a shop and buy suits while he literally lay down and took a nap next to us. They tried to make up for the missed pickup by offering boat on the Ganges next day instead: worked out well but again made us miss the main vishwanath temple on the walk there took us to a tea/souvenir shop instead and then on the boat:Explanations were rudimentary at best, contrived at worst. Best aspect: good location to see ganga Arthi on a chair, with chai So at $80pp not great value or insight,But not terrible. Would we use a guide again: yes. This one/or the company: no
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