[Depending upon your preference of travel, by drive or flight, our itinerary may change because it will take us 8 hours to drive from Kathmandu to Lumbini which will add one more day in our package’s itinerary]
35 minutes of flight will take us to the nearest city of Lumbini- Bhairahawa. After we reach Bhairahawa we drive for around 30 min to reach Lumbini [25 km]. We rest in the hotel for a while and start our planned sightseeing. We visit Mayadevi Temple - a temple dedicated to the mother of Buddha, Ashoka pillar - which displays the inscriptions explaining his visit to the birthplace of buddha., museums, monasteries, and stupa built with the help of Buddhist community around the world like from Myanmar, Korea, Japan, etc.
After breakfast, we visit various archeological and religious sites of Kapilvastu - for example, Tilaurakot, Kudan, Gotihawa, Niglihawa, and Sagarhawa.
Tilaurakot: is ancient Kapilvastu, the capital of Shakyas, where Buddha spent 29 years of his early age.
Kudan (Nigrodharma Park): built by Suddhodana - father of Buddha, to provide shelter for Buddha and his followers when he first met Buddha after enlightenment.
Gothihawa: the birthplace of Krakuchand Buddha.
Niglihawa: the birthplace of Kanak Muni Buddha
Sagarhawa: an archaeological findings as “place of the massacre of the Shakyas”.
We stay overnight in Lumbini.
This is the day we bid farewell to this auspicious land of Lumbini. We drive towards Bhairahawa after grabbing some breakfast and board on a plane that will take us to Kathmandu.