Buddhist Tour to Leh-Ladakh

Buddhist India tour comprises of tour to Leh-Ladakh as well as Kapilavastu and Boudhgaya including Sarnath as well as Myanmar and Sikkim. In these places there are plenty of monasteries as well as Daramshala in Himachal Pradesh where also you have plenty of monasteries and many television serials in the past have touched the lives of Tibetan Lamas which impregnate the life of Buddhist in umpteen measures.

These monasteries are very peaceful resorts and pieces of architecture and provide you with plenty of peace of mind which they can practice step by step for control of mind as well as intellect. The religion has also enchanted Chinese, Japanese and people in Hong Kong.

In Leh you have Hemis Monastery, Likir Monastery, Spituk Monastery, Lamayuru Monstery to name a few monasteries in this regard. All these monasteries offer a lot of conveniences to avid tourists which boast of very good traditions and style which will take care of the Buddhist nobility. You can also visit Jammu and Kashmir to enjoy heaven on the earth atmosphere for various sites of enjoyment as well as taking care of tourist and business pleasure.

Over a three-course supper (pumpkin soup, then big copper bowls of spiced chicken, aubergine, spinach, cauliflower, rice, potatoes, mutton momos and so on), one of the Shakti team explains how, by lounging around in such gracious ease, we are actually doing our bit to help the locals. At the start of this year, the company leased the village houses from the families that own them, then carried out extensive renovations, creating three double bedrooms for guests in each. Traditional Ladakhi houses are large enough that the families can carry on living in the rest of the property, while a team of Shakti staff - chef, waiter, drivers, guide - moves in to tend to the guests, travelling with them from house to house.

To visit Leh you can catch a flight from New Delhi and come back to Srinagar by another flight to enjoy Kashmir as well. From here you can take a flight to New Delhi back and take another flight to Varanasi to visit the famous place of Sarnath which is abode of Lord Buddha in Uttar Pradesh. From visiting Sarnath you will be able to know a lot of nuances of Buddhist culture as well as literatures provided in Sarnath by the temple authorities about the temple and the religion.

From Sarnath you can come to Varanasi and can proceed by bus or by rail to Boudhgaya for visiting extremely religious place of Boudhgaya for performing various sites of rituals for Hindus as well as for Buddhists.

Similarly you can also visit Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh to visit various Monasteries prevalent in that place.

To conclude, Buddhist India tour encompasses your visit to this place prior to Boudhgaya while moving from Srinagar. 

Afterwards you can visit Boudhgaya and Kapilavastu. All these places are rich with traditions and hospitality of Buddhist culture and environment.

Most tourists visit Thikse Gompa (meaning monastery), but our guide, Siddartha, makes sure we're there at dawn and takes us to the roof, where two monks stand waiting in flowing red robes. 

As the first rays of morning sunlight stream down across the valley, they blow a salute through conch shells, warding off evil and announcing the start of prayers. Next Sid takes us to sit with the monks, some as young as eight, in the main gokhang, or prayer room, where they bang drums, chant and blow horns in a ceremony that's both chaotic and strangely calming. Then we are shown into a back room, to see the venerated statues of the gompa's protective deities. I'd come to Thikse before, but didn't see half of this.

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