Visit Holy India with us Pilgrimage Tour Packages
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Aug-20-2011
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India is a vast country, with diverse cultures and ancient civilization. There are a number of religious groups residing in India. India as a confluence of different religions has always attracted pilgrims from all over the world.
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Indian pilgrimage tours are very unique and fascinating as India is a home to many religions like Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Islam and all of them have their important places of worship. Wherever two or more rivers meet, pilgrims come to bathe and worship, because that place is supposed to be holy. In the north-western region of India travelers often cross the tributaries of Indus and see strange and beautiful sights. Here we have one of the rarest places of pilgrimage.
In India we find the oldest pilgrimage tradition in the whole world. The practice of pilgrimage in India is so deeply embedded in the cultural psyche and the number of pilgrimage sites is so large that the entire subcontinent may actually be regarded as one grand and continuous sacred place. The earliest sources of information on the matter of sacred space come from the Rig Veda and the Atharva Veda.
Hindus call the sacred places tirthas and the action of going on a pilgrimage is called tirtha-yatra. The word tirtha means river ford, steps to a river, or place of pilgrimage. In Vedic times the word may have concerned only those sacred places associated with water, but by the time of the Mahabharata, tirtha had come to denote any holy place, be it a lake, mountain, forest, or cave. Tirthas are more than physical locations, however. Pious Hindus believe them to be spiritual fords, the meeting place of heaven and earth, the locations where one crosses the endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth to reach the shore of liberation.
There are various kinds of pilgrimage tour packages available specially made for different pilgrims of India and abroad. Booking agents and agencies are available all over the country which provide various packages of pilgrimage tour and services for pilgrims. These agencies provide pilgrimage tour packages at reasonable price. You can select your package according to your need, requirement and facilities. These packages mostly include facilities like transportation, medical, food and lodging.
Some of the famous pilgrimage tour packages are Navagraha Temples, Puttaparthi saibaba, Char Dam Yatra, Shirdi saibaba, Amarnath Yatra, Tirupathi Balaji, Vaishno Devi, Jagannath Darshan Yatra, Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, Kedarnath Badrinath Hemkund Yatra, Dargah Tour, Hemkund Sahib Tour, and Churches of South India Tour.
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