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SHIRDI WALE SAI BABA

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Shirdi is an small town located in Maharashtra state of India. Shirdi is known because Sai Baba came to that town and start giving his teachings to his devotees. We started our journey from Ujjain by road. It took normally takes around 9 hours to complete this journey from Ujjain. We started our journey at 11:00 in the morning and we reached Shirdi at 08:00PM. There are plenty of hotels and plenty of restaurants. The prices of hotels are very high which is a huge drawback if you are a budget traveler. We booked a room of Rs1700 for only two nights. We finished our dinner after reaching there and then we went to our room to take rest because we have to leave for Sai Baba Darshan at 06:00 in the morning. If you want to do Darshan free of cost then you have to take ticket from the counters and you can do Darshan by giving money so that you will get Darshan very quickly. We took the free of cost line for Darshan and it usually takes 3-4 hours to complete the darshan. The managemen...

AVANTIKA- HEART OF AVANTI KINGDOM

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Ujjain is a religious town for Hindu community. It is located on the banks of River Kshipra and it is in Madhya Pradesh state of India. It is one of those cities where Kumbh mela takes place in every 12 years, other cities are Nashik on the banks of River Godavari, Haridwar on the banks of river Ganga, Prayagraj on the confluence of river Yamuna and Ganga. Ujjain is famous for its religious importance as well as for its history of kings. Ashoka was appointed as a viceroy of Ujjain under the reign of Bindusara his father, Ashoka divided Mauryan kingdom into four province and Ujjain was the capital of Western province. Ujjain is also known as Ujjaini, Avanti, Avantika, Avantikapuri.    Add caption We started our journey from Gwalior and we travelled the distance by road, we stared our journey at 08:00AM and it took us around 8 hours to reach Ujjain. We checked into hotel and got freshen up. By 07:00 in the evening we leave for Mahakaleshwar Mandir which was 5 minutes away...

HARIDWAR & RISHIKESH- LAND OF RISHI

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Haridwar is a holy town situated on the banks of River Ganga. Haridwar is also known as Hardwar, now the meaning of “Haridwar” is “Gateway to Lord Vishnu ji” and the meaning of “Hardwar” is “Gateway to Lord Shiv ji”. We started our journey from Gwalior, and we were in a group of 10 people. We took a train to Haridwar from Gwalior and it usually takes 15 to 16 hours to cover that distance. We reach Haridwar on 15 th of December at 11:00PM and we checked into hotel and takes rest because all of us were tired due to the long journey. Next day means on 16 th of December we went for Ganga Snan at 7:00AM. Then we took a dip at Har ki Pauri Ghat which claims to be the holiest ghat on Haridwar and it is the place where Ganga comes down from the mountain to the lands, Har ki Pauri means “Steps of Lord Shiva”. After taking the bath we went to have some breakfast at Panditji Poori Wale. After finishing breakfast we went back to the hotel and to freshen up. At 11:00AM we all were ready to...