Experience Varanasi Tour: 2 Days Private Guided Tour
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Embark on an immersive 2-day guided tour of Varanasi, experiencing its rich culture, spirituality, and local markets. Enjoy boat rides, explore religious sites, and savor delicious street food.
Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
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Experience Varanasi - Private Guided Tours - Our accredited guide will meet you at your hotel and accompany you to the old city explaining you what you will see during the day.

10:00 am-01:30 pm. Bazaar Walk: Explore the hidden markets in the old city like Paan (betel leaf), spice, toys, flowers etc. It’s a combination of walking tour and cycle rickshaw ride. Walking through the narrow alleys of these markets with a variety of smell and vision gives a phenomenal experience to the Guest.

01:30 pm to 02:30 pm Lunch break

02:30 pm - 04:30 pm. City Tour: Visit the Banaras Hindu University, Durga Temple and the weaver’s district & learn the dying art of Silk weaving.

05:00 pm - 07:30 pm. Evening Boat ride: Go for a evening boat ride by the sunset and witness the activities by the river side in the evening, watch the cremation at Manikarnika Ghat from the boat. Finally stop at Dasaswamedh Ghat to enjoy the Ganga Aarti ceremony from your private boat.

What's Included
  • Bottled mineral water on each sightseeing trip
  • Two private, hand-rowed boat rides with boatman
  • Authentic street food tasting on the food tour
  • Comfortable, air-conditioned transportation
  • All applicable fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Tips
  • Airport transfers (to & from the hotel).
Additional Information

The Explore Varanasi journey is a venture to connect travelers with the city. It is designed to familiarize visitors with Varanasi’s local customs.

Unearth Varanasi’s jewels in two days. In addition to the sunrise and sunset boat voyages, you’ll have the opportunity to delve into various religious facets of the city such as Buddhism. Get a behind-the-scenes glance at the city’s numerous wholesale bazaars, saunter around residential sectors of the ancient city, and delight in delectable street food.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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377fionak
Feb 27, 2024
Great way to experience Varanassi - Excellent guide. Very knowledgeable. Very interesting tour and well organised. Definitely recommend. Very good way to see so much in 2 days. Couldn't do it without guide
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R729eikevinn
Feb 26, 2024
Amazing Vspirtual city in India - Satish was an excellent guide, the driver was also excellent. Varanasi was amazing. The ghats were amazing. Great tour, thank you.
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Ann_m
Feb 22, 2024
Excellent Tour - This was an excellent two day tour. Our guide, Kunal, was superb. He was very good about communicating with us before the tour & rearranged our sightseeing schedule to be more efficient due to the location of our hotel so we wouldn’t be wasting time in transit. We saw so many amazing things that we wouldn’t have been able to see without him. He was always good at getting us through the lines & attentive to our needs & interests. You can’t go wrong with Kunal guiding you!
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Micah_c
Feb 21, 2024
Unlike anywhere else - Amazing. My guides were so good, and I got to experience the sights, history, smells, and culture of Varanasi without being totally overwhelmed by the intensity of it all. Do it — these guys are great and I enjoyed it so deeply.
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Fiona_k
Feb 8, 2024
Truly memorable experience - Best bits were The morning boat ride. The evening ceremony. And Sarnath. Really enjoyed hearing all the history and culture from our guide. He was extremely knowledgeable. Very polite. Very keen to please. Reliable.
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Tour06217931080
Jan 28, 2024
Varanasi and its ways - Our tour went very well, Mr. Kunal is very professional, knowledgeable, organized , thorough, and flexible. We had a very pleasant experience and covered everything (to the point weather allowed) , and more. Mr Kunal went out of his way to help us with further travel arrangements and other details when our flight out of Varanasi got cancelled, very thankful for that. Highly recommend his tour services.
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Badger410
Nov 15, 2023
Exceptional Experience - Kunal was fantastic from my first contact. He not only organised the tour in Varanasi but also arranged our train tickets to and from Delhi. We hadn't even got off the train when a guide appeared in our coach to escort us off the train and to our hotel. The tour itself was perfect I don't think we missed a single thing Varanasi had to show us. He then stayed with us until it was time to catch our night train back to Delhi, even giving us chocolate for the journey!!
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Queenslanders_11
Oct 29, 2023
Excellent tour of Varanasi - highly recommended and well worth it - We, three older women from Australia, loved our 2 days private guided tour of Varanasi with Kunal and the Experience Varanasi team. I emailed Kunal before the tour with our interests, and about our mobility issues, especially concerns about accessing the ghats and boats. Kunal responded promptly to my emails, included my requests in our tour and reassured me as to how ghat and boat access would easily be managed by using an access with rails and with his help. Everything was perfect and nothing was too much trouble for him - from hotel pickup on time with an excellent car and driver, choice of activities and throughout our tour. Kunal began with a fascinating overview of his city, and continued throughout to point things out, tell us stories about his city and explain what we were seeing. He was both friendly and professional and we felt comfortable and safe. Highlights for us were the evening and morning boat rides on the Ganges, visits to the main temples with his guidance, our trip to Sarnath and the museum there, our visit to the weaving district, to the Benares university and, well really all of it. By the time we got to the street foods at the end of the second day our legs were tired. Realising this Kunal arranged a place where we could sit and have the many delicious dishes brought to us. For a comprehensive, well organised, inspiring, fascinating and enjoyable two days in Varanasi, we would very highly recommend Kunal and the Experience Varanasi team.
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Valentina_m
Dec 31, 2023
The guide was very... - The guide was very knowledgeable and professional. Also very punctual, which I have appreciated very much.
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Nuno
Sep 22, 2023
Amazing tour in Varanasi - We really liked Kunal, he is friendly and funny. We enjoyed all the moments but the first morning were we visited the local markets were undoubtedly the ones when we valued our tour. Those markets were clearly not for tourists so we believe that without this tour we did not had that experience. The rest of the tour was also great, we visited the main sight seeings and they were all amazing. The other guide was also very kind and helpful, we asked him to help us find a pharmacy and he did that without problems.
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