Kathmandu Lumbini Tour

Trip Information
  • Duration6 Days
  • Trip Grade Easy
  • Trip Type Tour
  • Best Time All the Year

Kathmandu-Lumbini Tour is a combined package of historic spiritual tour. The historic palaces, temples and stupas in Kathmandu will deliver you a kind of relaxation whereas visit to Lumbini—Birth place of Lord Buddha—will take you back to 2550 years, the time when Buddha was born. The site will reveal the meaning of existence and teach you the meaning love, peace and harmony. It is a tour that will change your level of consciousness and conscience.

Although Lumbini is located around 300 kilometers west from Kathmandu, but you can get their within a day by bus or in less than half hour by. Tourist can enjoy the Kathmandu-Lumbini tour within four days at maximum, if travelled by air to Lumbini. It is very simple and easy tour.

Some tour planners regard this tour as faith based tour too because in this tour you will get opportunity to visit two greatest shrine of two different religion—Hindu and Buddhist. The Pashupatinath Temple is the biggest holy shrine of Hindus residing all over the world and Lumbini is the ultimate destination of Buddhist from across the globe.

More than 10,000,00 Hindu visit Pashupatinath Temple and around half million people pave their way to Lumbini every year.

Itinerary

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Namaste! Info Nepal Treks and Expedition heartily welcomes you in the city of temples—Kathmandu. Our representative will receive you at Tribhuvan International Airport. Our intimacy with you begins from here and we will be in your service for 24x7 from this very moment. The representative will assist you with vehicle and drive to the hotel. You can spend some time in hotel and get fresh before roaming around Thamel, renowned tourist spot in Kathmandu.

Overnight in hotel

    Your trip to Nepal formally starts from the second day. You will be visiting UNESCO listed World Heritage Sites—Bashantapur Durbar Square, Pashupatinath, Bouddhanath and Swoyambhunath.

    Kathmandu itself is a living museum and Bashantapur Durbar Square is jewel of the crown. The site covers more than five hectares area protecting historical and cultural heritage. The site truly portrays ancient face of Nepal and its wealthy culture and tradition. The palace called Hanuman Dhoka is the center of attraction. There are many chowks in the palace.

    There are many temples including Kumari Ghar (house where living goddess resides) in the campus premises of Bashantapur Durbar Square.

    Pashupatinath is popular site of Hindus where Lord Shiva is enshrined in the form of Linga known as ‘Shiva Linga’. The temple is built in pagoda style and is located in the bank of Bagmati River. It is reported that more than a million Hindus visit here at the time of Shiva Ratri—Lord Shiva’s birthday.

    Similarly, Bouddhanath is located on north of Pashupatinath. It is popular holy site of Buddhist. Bouddhanath is a stupa built structure which is largest stupa of South Asia. The stupa is covered by white wall where small statue of Amitabh Buddha is attached. The locality of Bouddhanath is also known as Little Tibet. The surrounding of the site resembles Tibetan culture and tradition.

    Furthermore, Swoyambhunath is another popular Buddhist site where more than hundred thousand spiritual based tourists visit every year. Swoyambhunath is a dome like white structure. Many monks like in Bouddhanath pray here counting beads and rotating prayer wheels.

    After visiting aforementioned sites we will drive you back to hotel.

    Overnight in a hotel

      Lumbini is located on west from Kathmandu and is around 300 km away. It is a ride of around five hours following Prithvi-Highway and East West Highway. You will witness inner terai (plain land) of Nepal. The lifestyle of this part of the country is different than Kathmandu.

      After arriving here we will get fresh and stroll around the street of Lumbini after lunch. If interested, you can visit few beautifully built monasteries.

      Overnight in hotel

        We will explore entire Lumbini today. It is one of the World Heritage Sites. We will pay visit to Mayadevi Temple. You will witness Bodhi tree meditating under which Siddhartha attained enlightment. It is not the original tree but a part of original tree which was planted here later.

        At the outer part of the temple there is holy pond and Ashoka pillar. You will be visiting several monasteries here today. There are more than 100 monasteries here built by different countries.

        Overnight in hotel

          Retracing the highway which we followed earlier we get back to Kathmandu. Here in capital you get ample of time to roam around especially, on the streets of Thamel. If interested, you can purchase gifts to your friend and family.

          Info Nepal Treks and Expedition will offer you farewell dinner tonight.

          Overnight in hotel

            Your Nepal stay ends from today. Representative of Info Nepal Treks and Expedition will drop you at Tribhuvan International Airport three hours earlier to you scheduled flight.

            See you next season for another trip!

            Important Note: If the above itinerary does not meet your needs, we can customize the itinerary according to your need or requirements.

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