Puri Tour Packages

Puri, also popularly called as Jagannath Puri, is one of the four great celebrated pilgrim cities of India, situated at different points of the compass, the other three being Rameshwaram in the south, Dwarka in the west and Badrinath in the north. Like Dwarka on the west coast, Puri is situated on the coast-line in the midst of sylvan surroundings and has a temperate and bracing climate. The Puri temple is the great object of Hindu pilgrimage, and is annually visited by enormous numbers. Puri tour for Hindu devotees is a ‘tirth yatra’. Puri is sacred to Vishnu and known to every hamlet and town in India as the abode of Jagannath ‘the Lord of the World’. The city and the temple are set in beautiful surroundings. Surrounded by waving rice-fields on three sides and the sea on the east, Puri lies in the delta of the Mahanadi. The temple, one of the most revered temples in India, dominates the country around. Especially in rainy July when the air is clear and translucent, the pale-tinted ‘shikhar’ of the temple, rising 192 feet in height, surmounted by the wheel and trident of Vishnu, affords a most inspiring and noble sight for miles around.

In addition to the temple of Lord Jagannath, a conspicuous object with its gaudily-carved ‘shikhar’, the Konark Sun Temple or the Black Pagoda of Konark, some 20 miles up the coast, happens to be part of sightseeing in most of Puri tour packages. If a trip to Puri coincides with Rath Yatra or Car Festival, the tourist will be witness to unprecedented surge of religiosity. The city subsists chiefly on the shrine and the pilgrims who attend it. Puri district abounds in memorials of bygone religions: of Buddhism in the rock caves in the hills between Puri and Cuttack, with their sculptures and inscriptions; of Shiva-worship, in the magnificent ruined temples of Bhubaneswar; of sun-worship in the great temple at Konark.

Along with religious tourism, Puri has emerged as a hotspot of beach holidays and eco-tourism. Long coast line with several serene sea beaches and amazingly beautiful largest brackish lagoon - Chilika Lake, are attracting a large number of tourists for fun-filled family holidays in Puri. Optima Travels offers customized Puri holiday packages to enjoy pleasant weather, beautiful landscape and delicious cuisines with temples visit entwined. Puri tour itineraries mostly comprise a detour to Raghurajpur, a village of artists who are master of ‘pattachitras’ and ‘talapattachitras’.

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