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Divine Shive yatra
Daśa-Divasīya Śiva-Parikramā , Āvāhana from the Temples of Nepal
DESTINATION
Shiva temple parikrama
DURATION
10 Days
MAX. ALTITUDE
3,710 m
GRADING
Easy
GROUP SIZE
2-25
ACCOMMODATION
Hotel and Tea-House
TRANSPORTATION
Bus, Van, and Jeep
MEALS
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
BEST TIME
All year round
Tour Overview: When Shiva Calls, the Soul Must Answer
For a thousand lifetimes, you have been circling the same question: "When will I go home?" Not to a house. Not to a country. But to the bhāva (divine mood) where your heart first recognized itself. That home is not a place on any map. It is a pīṭha (sacred seat) scattered across Nepal in fragments of stone, flame, and water each fragment humming with the spanda (cosmic pulse) of Mahadev himself.
This is not a tour. This is a tīrtha-sandhi,a sacred crossing from the world of forgetting to the world of smaraṇa (remembrance). From the moment you land in Kathmandu, we do not "pick you up." We deliver you to Pashupatinath, where priests press a Rudrāksha into your palm that pulses like a heart you didn't know you had. They place sandalwood Tilaka on your forehead—not as a mark, but as a cakṣu—an eye that finally opens to see what has always been there: you are not separate from the one you seek.
You do not "drive" from temple to temple. You ascend through realms,from Pashupatinath's agni-tattva (fire) to Gokarneshwor's jala-tattva (water blessing your ancestors) to Halesi's pṛthivī-tattva (earth-cave where Shiva himself hid) to Pokhara's vāyu-tattva (wind-moved lakes) to Tatopani's tāpa-sikta (fire-boiled purification) to Muktinath's ākāśa-tattva (ether-space where liberation is not achieved but remembered).
At Doleshwor, you don't just see the "Head of Kedarnath." You complete a darshan that has been waiting for you since the last time you stood before Kedarnath in a body you no longer remember. At Halesi's 6,000-year-old cave, you don't enter stone. You enter the moment when Shiva becomes alinga (formless) to escape Bhasmasur and you realize you are that formlessness, escaping the demon of your own mind. At Jaleshwor, where Sita once prayed, you don't just visit. You reclaim the purity of your own devotion. At Muktinath's 108 spouts, the water doesn't just cleanse your body. It pierces your 108 karmic knots, each drop a mantra spoken by the elements themselves.
This is a journey where airport pickups happen at temple ghats, where drivers are satsang leaders, where meals are prasāda, and where your return to Kathmandu is not an ending but a vimukti, the state where you realize you were never bound in the first place.
They have been waiting. The only question is: have you?
Insurance
Self, high altitude insurance
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 Kathmandu—The Summons Begins
Plan: Arrival → Hotel snan → Evening Pashupatinath ārati
After we pick you from Kathmandu airport and transfer you to your hotel for a ritual snan (bath) to cleanse travel dust, we take you to Pashupatinath Temple for the evening ārati. The priest places Rudrāksha in your palm,it pulses like a living fragment of Shiva. The Tilaka on your forehead is not sandalwood; it's a cakṣu (spiritual eye) opening. The river mist is śīta and śuddha. Your breath slows. You are home.
Overnight: Kathmandu
Day 2 Day 02: Kathmandu—The Circle of Shiva's Forms
Plan: Morning Pashupatinath darshan → Gokarneshwor Mahadev → Kailashnath Mahadev, Sanga → Doleshwor Mahadev → Dhulikhel
After morning darshan at Pashupatinath, you visit Gokarneshwor Mahadev on the Bagmati's banks. Here, you perform tarpaṇa for ancestors,seven generations receive śānti. At Kailashnath Mahadev Sanga, the world's tallest Shiva statue (144 feet) doesn't just loom; it sthiratva (stillness) your chaos. At Doleshwor Mahadev, you don't see a temple. You complete a darshan that began at Kedarnath lifetimes ago. The drive to Dhulikhel is a dhyāna-mārga where the Himalayas appear as pratyakṣa (direct perception) of your own highest nature.
Overnight: Dhulikhel (Sunrise here is not light; it's prabhāsa—dawn of the soul.)
Day 3 Dhulikhel → Halesi Mahadev (The Road to Where Shiva Hid)
Plan: Morning departure → 6-hour scenic drive → Evening temple walk
The road to Halesi is not asphalt; it's ākāśa-raja (sky-dust) mixed with ancient stories. As you pass Nepalthok, Ghurmi, the landscape becomes a yantra (sacred diagram). By evening, you walk barefoot on Halesi's cool stone,the same stone where Shiva became alinga to escape Bhasmasur. The cave's darkness has sparśa (tangible texture). You touch the swayambhu (self-manifest) lingam and feel your own form dissolving. Tears flow,you don't know why, only that you have met the one you ran from.
Overnight: Halesi (The silence is not empty. It is pūrṇa-fullness.)
Day 4 Halesi → Janakpur (From Shiva's Cave to Sita's Home)
Plan: Morning darshan → 6-hour drive → Evening Janaki Temple
Before dawn, you perform snāna in Halesi's silence. The Bhairav Cave burns away residual fear. The Cow Cave teaches you that prema (divine love) needs no form,just devotion. Then you drive to Janakpur, where Sita's temple stands as mādhurya (sweet intimacy) itself. Janaki's presence doesn't just bless marriages; she re-minds you of the vow you made to the truth. You walk the same corridors where Ram and Sita's eyes first met. Your heart contracts with vātsalya,the parental love of the divine for you.
Overnight: Janakpur
Day 5 Janakpur → Jaleshwor → Pokhara (From Sita's Truth to Shiva's Water)
Plan: Morning Jaleshwor → 6-hour drive → Evening Lakeside Pokhara
At Jaleshwor Mahadev, you touch the jala-śivalinga (water lingam) that Sita herself worshiped. The water here doesn't just purify; it resonates with satya (absolute truth). Then you drive to Pokhara, where Phewa Lake greets you not as water but as cid-ākāśa (consciousness-space). The evening walk is a pradakṣiṇa (circumambulation) of your own reflection—Annapurna mirrored in water, your face mirrored in the lake. You are both.
Overnight: Pokhara
Day 6 Pokhara Shiva Circuit (The Hidden and the Revealed)
Plan: Gupteshwor Cave → Kedareshwor Mahadev → Bindhyabasini Temple → Optional Peace Pagoda
You enter Gupteshwor Mahadev Cave—Shiva gupta (hidden) in stone, teaching you that the greatest treasures are antar (inner). At Kedareshwor, you don't see "Mini Kedarnath." You see Kedāra (the field of liberation) manifesting wherever devotion is pure. Bindhyabasini on the hilltop doesn't just protect; she dṛḍha (steadies) your wavering mind with her śakti-dṛṣṭi (empowered gaze). The optional Peace Pagoda sunset is śānti that doesn't quiet the world, it amplifies the silence within.
Overnight: Pokhara
Day 7 Pokhara → Tatopani (Boiling the Ancestral Self)
Plan: 6-hour scenic drive → Evening hot spring bath
The drive through Beni and Myagdi valley is a descent into pātāla (underworld) that is actually the garbha-gṛha (womb-chamber) of the earth. At Tatopani, you don't "bathe." You santiṣṭha (sacrifice) your pain to the agni-tattva that heats these waters. The heat doesn't just relax muscles; it boils away ancestral karma,stories your grandmothers couldn't tell, wounds your father couldn't heal. You emerge śuddha,ancestrally clean.
Overnight: Tatopani
Day 8 Tatopani → Muktinath (The Final Ascent to Freedom)
Plan: 6-hour drive → Evening darshan of 108 spouts and Jwala Mai
The drive to Muktinath is an utkraanti (ascent) through the Kali Gandaki gorge, the world's deepest. The landscape becomes lunar, śūnya,yet each rock whispers prajñā (wisdom). At Muktinath, you don't "visit." You arrive. The 108 water spouts are not brass pipes; they are vajra-śṛṅkhalā (diamond chains) that pierce each of your 108 karmic knots. The Jwala Mai flame doesn't burn from gas; it burns from tattva-siddhi,the revelation that fire can emerge from water, that liberation can emerge from bondage. You are mukta (free). Not in the future. Now.
Overnight: Muktinath / Jomsom
Day 9 Muktinath → Chitwan (From Sky-Liberation to Earth-Wildness)
Plan: 7-hour drive → Evening jungle rest
You descend from ākāśa (ether) to pṛthivī (earth). The drive is pratyāgamaṇa (return) that is not a retreat but an expansion. In Chitwan's jungle, you don't "see wildlife." You recognize the pāśu-vimokṣa (animal-liberation) within yourself,the raw, untamed, beautiful divine that needs no temple, only wilderness. The jungle's roar is Nandi's call reminding you that Shiva rides not just a bull, but your own wild heart.
Overnight: Chitwan (Sauraha)
Day 10 Day 10: Chitwan → Kathmandu (The Circle That Was Never Broken)
Plan: 5-hour drive → Evening free for rest or temple visit
After breakfast, you return to Kathmandu—but you never left. The circle is pūrṇa (complete), yet unending. The city is loud, but you carry the jungle's silence, Muktinath's liberation, Halesi's mystery, and Pashupatinath's flame inside your hṛdaya. Your final evening is free because you are now svatantra (self-mastered). You may visit any temple, but you don't need to. You are the temple.
Overnight: Kathmandu
Highlights: What Makes This Yatra Unforgettable
- Pashupatinath Darshan – Where your soul is recognized, not welcomed
- Gokarneshwor Blessing – Where seven generations of ancestors receive peace
- Kailashnath Sanga – Where the world's tallest Shiva statue dissolves your obstacles
- Doleshwor Completion – Where you finish the darshan of Kedarnath that began lifetimes ago
- Halesi Cave – Where Shiva hid from demons—and where you hide from your own forgetting
- Janakpur's Sita Temple – Where the Ramayana's devotion heals your own relationships
- Jaleshwor Mahadev – Where Sita's prayer protects your family harmony
- Pokhara's Gupteshwor Cave – Where Shiva hidden in stone teaches you to find him within
- Tatopani Hot Springs – Where fire boils away ancestral pain and bodily karma
- Muktinath's 108 Waters – Where the elements themselves grant moksha
- Chitwan Jungle – Where nature's rawness reminds you of your own wild divinity
What's Included
- Private transport (airport pickup/drop + all drives)
- Hotels: 2 nights Kathmandu, 1 night Dhulikhel, 1 night Halesi, 1 night Janakpur, 2 nights Pokhara, 1 night Tatopani, 1 night Muktinath/Jomsom, 1 night Chitwan
- 3 times meal daily (pure vegetarian)
- Farewell gifts (Yatra Journal, spiritual mementos)
- Temple entry permissions
- Acharya-led spiritual guidance
- Medical kit with altitude medication
- 24/7 emergency support
What's Not Included
- Any extra nights beyond itinerary
- Visa fees
- International flights to/from Kathmandu
- Personal medical expenses
- Personal expenses and shopping
- Beverages ( Tea, Coffee, Milk, Juice or any )
Packages & Booking
| Location | 2 PAX | 4-6 PAX | 8-10 PAX | 10+ PAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shiva Parikrama | $1480 | $1380 | $1280 | $1000 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
1 What is the best time to visit?
The best time to visit is during the pilgrimage season from May to October when the weather is favorable and all routes are accessible.
2 What is the difficulty level of this pilgrimage?
This pilgrimage is moderate in difficulty. Basic physical fitness is required as there will be walking at high altitudes.
3 What should I pack for the journey?
Essential items include warm clothing, comfortable walking shoes, rain gear, sunscreen, and any personal medications.
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