| During Classic Holiday’s Buddhist Trail India tour you | | | | preached his first five disciples. The Dharmarajika |
| will visit Buddha's place of birth in Lumbini plus follow | | | | Stupa is where Buddha meditated and allegedly his |
| the main travels and the essential stations of | | | | bones are interred. |
| Buddha’s life. You’ll visit Bodh Gaya (where he | | | | Other sites you will visit along Buddha’s trail of |
| was enlightened), deer park of Samath (where he first | | | | enlightenment include: |
| preached), the Gridkutta mountain (vulture's peak) of | | | | Bodhgaya and the Mahabodhi Temple Complex is |
| Rajgir, and Kushinagar (where be passed over his | | | | where Buddha attained enlightenment. It has been |
| monk life into the Nirvana). At each of these places, | | | | named a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. |
| Buddhist communities erected temples and Stupas so | | | | Nalanda where the University Nalanda was established |
| that the teachings of the Buddha remain omnipresent | | | | during 427 AD in the rich landscape of the Ganges |
| and the opportunity to worship and to meditate | | | | around the Buddhist memorials in Patna. |
| spreads everywhere. | | | | Vaishali where Buddha gave his final speech and in |
| Classic Holiday’s Buddhist Trail India tour is a | | | | memory emperor Ashoka built a lion column. Two sites |
| ten-day, eleven-night spiritual journey. You will start | | | | were built to commemorate the second Buddhist |
| your travels in Delhi, and then travel on to Varanasi, | | | | council here there during 383 BC. |
| Bodhgaya, Ragjir, Nalanda, Patna, Vaishali, Kushinagar, | | | | Kushinagar, where Buddha at 80 years old met |
| Lumbini, Sravasti, Lucknow and back to Delhi. Delhi can | | | | Parinivana and consoled sad Ananda at the bank of |
| be easily compared to cities like Athens, Rome and | | | | the Hiranvati River. It was in Kushinagar, that Buddha |
| Istanbul when it comes to the cultural, architectural and | | | | died. |
| historical richness. You’ll travel on to Varanasi, an | | | | Lumbini -- the cradle of Buddha – which is the birth |
| ancient city situated along the banks of the Holy River | | | | Place of Lord Buddha. |
| Ganges, then travel to Sarnath where Buddha | | | | Sravasti, where Buddha lived in the Jetvana garden for |
| preached his first sermon after receiving enlightenment. | | | | 24 years. You will also visit the grandiose Stupas and |
| The entire complex, Dhamekh Stupa or Dharma | | | | temple. Sravasti is the past capital of the Kosala |
| Chakrawas were built to pay tribute to where Buddha | | | | kingdom. |