Jyotirling With Shirdi Tour

• Upon arrival at the Mumbai airport or railway station, you will be greeted by our representatives who’ll bring you to your hotel. Check in at the hotel before we go on a short sightseeing trip, prefaced with a visit to the Shree Siddhivinayak Temple where you can pray for Lord Ganesha’s blessings for the trip.
• Then we go on a tour around Mumbai starting from the Gateway of India, Marine Drive, Colaba Market, and Prince of Wales Museum. Then we take you back to the hotel to rest for the day. Overnight stay.

• We start the Jyotirlinga tour from early morning after you have your breakfast. We take the ride for Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga known as one of the 12 highly sacred Jyotirlingas in India. You may take your time at the temple and seek blessings from Lord Shiva. Then we move to Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary in the evening where you can see rare species such as the Indian Giant Squirrel and an Important Bird Area where you can observe rare aviary species.
• Then we move to Ahmednagar and check you into the hotel for an overnight stay.

Start the day with a breakfast at the hotel before moving to Ambajogai, a town named after the goddess Ambabai – Yogeshwari, to visit the heritage temple dedicated to the deity. Then we visit Parali Vaijnath Jyortirlinga, which is said to the last among the 12 Jyotirlingas. We’ll spend an overnight in Ambajogai.

• We set off for Aurangabad after breakfast in the morning and make a stop at the Aundha Naganath Jyotirling Temple, Hingoli. This is the eighth of the twelve jyotirlingas, located underground and has been reconstructed by Ahilyabai Holkar after it was ransacked during Aurangzeb’s conquests.
• We leave you alone as soon as we reach the hotel in Aurangabad to rest before continuing the tour the next day. Overnight stay at Aurangabad.

• After breakfast, we go for a whole-day city tour from Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga Temple, the last of the twelfth Jyotirlinga (linga of light) with Grishneshwar name means “lord of compassion.” Then we go to the Ellora Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage, known as one of world’s largest rock-cut temple cave in Hinduism that dates as far back as 600 AD. Then we visit Bhadra Maruti Temple to see the only sleeping Maruti idol in India.
• We go back to the hotel and spend an overnight in Aurangabad.

After breakfast, we visit Pawanchakki, and Bibi ka Maqbara, the tomb of Rabia-ud-Durrani, the wife of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1660. Then we continue our tour to Shirdi to visit Samadhi Mandir, Khandoba Temple, and Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Complex. Then we drive to Shani Shingnapur that’s 65-km away from Shirdi, a village known for having no doors. The temple of Shani is dedicated to the god that was also a personification of the planet Saturn, Lord Shaneshwara. This will also be the last thing in the schedule for the day. We spend the night in Shirdi.

We start our morning at Shirdi Temple with Aarti before moving to Mumbai. Enroute, we’ll stop in Trimbakeshwar to visit the last jyotirlinga of our tour, Trimbakeshwar Shiva Temple, where the sacred pond Kusavarta is located and believed to be able to wife off devotees’ sin. We spend the night in Mumbai.

Breakfast at hotel and as per your schedule departure time of flight or train or check out time, you will be dropped to the airport or railway station for your onward journey.