Saturday, 22 March 2014

PACKAGE TOURS

                                              PACKAGE  TOURS FOR TEMPLES

All the submissions are my personal experiences or the personal experiences of the Pilgrims
who have narrated their experiences so.

Package Tours Operated :

1. There are professional agents who have been arranging tours for the past many years from
    Trichy/Madurai. In the selection of Operators please chose
     a) only operators who offer with food etc and complete shall be preferred. Normally these
         opearators are very economical and they provide only dormitary accomodation in choultries
         etc.,.But if  we inform them earlier through the guide who will accompany till return, they will
         arrange  lodging to our taste maximum possible available in that place. Even though we can
         not expect variety in Food during Tours - Madurai Murugan Travels/ IRCTC through
         Traveltimes Madurai, Namaagiri Travels Trichy are few who offer Package Tour with
          food etc. Their guides are also enough care takers of the aged and Traveltimes have in
         Train doctor.
       
         There are few Local Operators offering tours in South India in Deluxe Buses. The main
         problem with them is the journey in Bus will be tedious whatever comfortable the Bus will
         be in luxury.Their temple visits will also be restricted to few as per schedule. It is also
         highly ridiculous that Few Vaishnavie Operators will visit only Perumal Temples in the
         Pilgrim Places and they will not go to any Shiva or Other Temples popular in the nearby
         areas. Or they will give few hours for the Devotees intereted to see the Other Temples
         on their own.

 2.    There are many operators who are advertising in Medias who have supports from Religious
        People and there are few Godmen like Poojya Shree Ravishankarjee or EEsha Jaggi Gurujee
        or Baba Shiva Sankarjee who have been arranging limited numebre of devotees. All these
        are highly costly and only effluent people who can afford can go there. Usually Tours by
        Godmen are like 5 star luxury tours where you will have no inconvenience regarding anything
        except restrictions of your movements within their limits.

 3.    Similarly avoid Package tours without provision of  Food & Accomodations.

 All the above are only people who donot know Hindi / who are elderly. If there is any youth in the
 Team any place can be visited conveniently using many online booking services for buses/trains/cabs/
 lodges. In populat tourist places all over India you can demand cab driver knowing Tamil through
 online. In places like Haridwar/Rishikesh  language is no problem as most of them know Tamil and
 Malyaalees/Tamils have shops there.
 Similarly in tOurist spots you can prefer staying in Area where Tamils are present. Eg - Varanasi
 at Hanumanghat/Harischadra Ghat Area. Near Visalakshi Amman koil etc, In Allahabad near Darya Ganj,
 In Big Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta you can book lodges through online where Tamil Food available
 in Tamil Area. they will also have Cabs for Touring around.
 Internet is very useful and you can search for temple priest contact numbers for any temples and you can
 arrange tours by yourself. They will arrange pick up from Railways and drop at destination.
 Also please dont be attracted too much by advertisements coming in Intenet websites for various temple  archanas or religious homams. They are nothing but commercials. may be useful for NRIs residing abroad.

 Contact numbers for any temple visits and temples for various parihaarams or slokas will be given if enquired through saicuresall@gmail.com or by posting here the enquiry.
 This is purely as assistance and no benefit is expected for the reply.




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