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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The two bus tours in and around Dwaraka

The places we covered were Nageshwar, Gopi Talao, Bet Dwarka and Rukmanimata temple. The first bus was around 8 a.m. in the morning. We took an auto to the tour bus area and waited. The bus commences and terminates journey near vegetable market at Dwarka. The booking is done at offices near vegetable market as well as on Bhadrakali road. Around 8:30 a.m. a bus belonging to Chandni Travels arrived and we boarded and sat in our allocated seats. A few minutes later, we were told that it was a wrong bus and we were asked to get on a different one parked a little further. This one was like a Town or city bus with not much leg space between rows. Was very uncomfortable. It was nearing 9 a.m. and the tour duration being about 5 hours, we were concerned about catching our afternoon tour around 3 p.m. The bus has capacity of 55 seats. The guide spoke some dialect of Hindi. At the end he came near our seat and told us in a quiet voice about what we were visiting. He asked everyone for a tip. We gave, but others did not - for whatever reason. The bus companions were very polite and friendly with each other.
What did we see on this 60 rupees tour? Plenty.

Dwarkadhish, Devaki, Durvasamuni, Lakshminarayan, Madhavraiji and Trivikramji Temples. In addition, some of the following were covered.

Shankaracharya’s Math, Siddheshwar and Indreshwar temples Gomati ghaat, Sangam Narayan and Chakranarayan temples, Kashivishvanath temple,Rukmini's temple, Baldev’s temple, Vasudev’s and Siddheshvar Mahadev Temple.

One of the Jyothirlingams in Dwaraka that we saw was of Nageswara.
The trip to Rukmini Temple on the boat was a memorable one. Will write about it in my next post.

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