Private Varanasi Tour: Sunrise Boat Ride and Cultural Exploration in Holy City

Embark on a private Varanasi tour and uncover the treasures and secrets of this holy city. Experience a sunrise boat ride, explore the ghats, and immerse yourself in the fascinating rituals and customs. Discover the authenticity and uniqueness of Varanasi.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

The local expert from the city will meet you at your hotel. From there he will walk you to the bank of the river Ganges. The guide will explain about each and every ghat and later he will show the city narrow lanes by walking.

Points of Interest

  • Varanasi

  • Ganges River

  • Banaras Ghats

  • Dasaswamedh Ghat

  • Assi Ghat

  • Manikarnika Ghat

  • Alamgir Mosque

  • Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple (Golden Temple)

What's Included
  • Bottled water
  • All temple fees and taxes
  • Snacks
  • Private live tour guide as per itinerary
  • Pick-up and Drop-off to anywhere in Varanasi
  • Private Boat Ride
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Explore varanasi - a city full of treasures and secrets. A city of unique faiths and beliefs, fascinating rituals and customs. The guide will show you all the ghats during the sunrise on a boat ride and will tell you the story behind each one. Also, get a chance to experience the holy city from inside by taking a walking tour in the narrow lanes. Within every step of this best Varanasi tour, be sure to discover and witness some of the exciting facts that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Once you step into this holy land, its authenticity and uniqueness are sure to amaze you.

  • If Pick up from airport: Flight details must be provided at the time of booking
  • In case your hotel/pick up location is not mentioned while making the booking – Please click on My Hotel Is Not Listed option on the Booking Checkout Page and then manually enter your Hotel Name
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s cancelled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
Location
Varanasi
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Northstar10950399402
Aug 12, 2024
Grateful - We enjoyed the tour a lot! It was impossible for us to explore by ourselves so we’re glad that he took us around and show us less crowded view.
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Mora_f
Aug 6, 2024
Great experience - Very good tour with Rakesh. It was really informative and we visited everywhere that we wanted. It was really interesting and good.
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Brad
Jul 6, 2024
Great Tour of Varanasi with a Great Guide - Molu did an exceptional job showing us around Varanasi. We had a memorable visit. Molu explained everything about the city and the history. We were able to go out on a boat and see Varanasi from the river view. Molu did a great job answering all of our questions and he was very friendly and patient. I would recommend Molu to anyone planning a visit to Varanasi. Our driver was also great! He picked us up from the airport and drove us all around and returned us to the airport with no problems. Great tour and enjoyed it very much.
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Meander57465637452
Jul 5, 2024
Molu was great in Varanasi!! - Molu was a great guide in Varanasi. He was extremely knowledgeable about the history of the city and the history of Hinduism. The boat ride was definitely the highlight of the tour. Learning of the ghats and their rituals was interesting.
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Jo_l
Jun 25, 2024
Sunrise River - Amazing experience the River Ganges. Molu was an amazing guide with so much information. Thank you molu
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Faraway36005482801
May 31, 2024
Good experience - Loved the boat trip, very helpful guide Molu, and I can suggest it to everyone. If you have a special request like seeing something, he is very flexible and willing to tell you about it
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John
May 24, 2024
A beautiful morning in Varanasi - A fabulous way to spend a morning in Varanasi. The boat ride was especially fun. The guide had a great knowledge of the history of Varanasi and customised my tour to include places I hadn't seen before. Would recommend.
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Abyssskk
Apr 9, 2024
Happy new Hindu year in Kashi - Three days is the optimum time needed for first time to be and see Varanasi (ex Benares, ex Kashi). The organisers have combined for us the tour which consisted of main sightseeing and activities (Sarnath, Old city, Vishvanath, Ghats, cremation place, boat tours, ceremonies and more). The guides were helpful both in Sarnath (Ravi) and Varanasi (Lalit). If you have time prepare yourself (read before you arrive here) that will deeply improve the effect of local culture and experience. Walk by yourself in free time in the city and you can explore more. Hope we can return here some days to spend more time. Wonderful trip.
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Jonny1965
Mar 31, 2024
Enlightening! - Excellent very knowledge tour guide. History and traditions explained very well sitting peacefully on the boats by the ghats
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P8741tk_
Jun 2, 2024
Exciting boat and bike - This is my first time trip to Varanasi. I take my guide’s bike. There are so crowd near river but my guide lead me safety and he introduced some information on boat. He also allowed my some requests. But I don’t receive a bottle of water.
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