IRCTC, in its continuing efforts in making attractive tourist packages,
has once again come up with another unique itinerary…this time exclusively for
the pilgrims in South India covering some of the renowned Hindu sites.
It will run an exclusive AC Tourist Train, for a round trip, from
Bangalore and covering Allahabad, Varanasi (Kasi), Gaya, Kolkata, Puri and
Konark. The train is to start on 22ndJune 2014 from Bangalore on
its round trip to be terminated at the same place on 30th June
2014.
The Tourist train (starting from Bangalore) is being routed through Chennai and Vijayawada (on onward and return
journey) for the convenience of pilgrims of Tamil Nadu and Andhra
Pradesh so that they can join/detrain the tour from there.
IRCTC, a Govt. of India Enterprise, has been a pioneer in Rail-based
tourism with public-private participation and has been running rail tour
packages successfully for the past many years to various places of tourist
importance up to the satisfaction of the customers. Its custom made tourism
products have been well received and most sought after by the public at large.
IRCTC, it may be stated, has been the preferred choice for many for their
travel solutions/needs since it made a foray in the Travel Industry way back in
1999.
This time, in order to provide the pilgrim-tourists with some unique
combination of religious tourist destinations, IRCTC launches a train tour by
an exclusive “AC Tourist Train” covering some of the popular Hindu pilgrim
destinations in India. The tourists will have the life time opportunity to
bathe in the Triveni Sangam (confluence of rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati)
in Allahabad, which is considered to be highly auspicious and pious; visit
the famous Vishwanath temple and Visalakshi temple in Varanasi (Kasi);have
a pinda pradanam at Gaya; visit Dakshineswar Kali temple and Belur Math
of the famous nineteenth century saint Ramakrishna Paramhansa; visit Kolkata,
the City of Joy. Also included in the package are visit to the famous
Lord Jagannath temple at Puri and the world famous Sun Temple at Konark.
The nine-days itinerary has been designed specially keeping in mind the
senior citizens who eagerly seek to visit these religious places. This package
will enable them to enjoy an all inclusive and hassle free tour.
The unique features of the tourist train are:-
1. Consists of 4 IAC (Luxury), 3 IIAC (Deluxe) and 1IIIAC
(Comfort) coaches…all specially renovated.
2. The exclusive air-conditioned train carries only tourists.
3. The train has a separate pantry car to cater South Indian
vegetarian food to the tourists.
4. Services of Tour escort for the tourists.
5. Services of Security on train to safe guard the tourists and
their belongings.
6. PA system on train for giving discourses and instructions
regarding the day to day conduct of tour.
The tour includes travel by the “AC Tourist Train”, AC hotel
accommodation at places of night stays, buses for transfers and
sightseeing, on-board and off-board vegetarian catering, services of tour
escort, security, etc. The tour has been classified into
Luxury, Deluxe and Comfort categories and the package cost starts from
Rs. 30,376/-.
Government Sector/PSU employees can also avail the LTC facilities for
the above tour. It may be mentioned that the Ministry of Finance, Government
of India has also recognized IRCTC as an outlet for the wide circle of LTC
travellers for their ticketing. It also has the recognition of the IATA
(International Air Transport Association) to deal with corporate travel
services.
The package
can be booked online from www.irctctourism.comor one may contact at:
Secunderabad: 040-27702407, 9701360701;9701360623
Vijayawada: 0866-2572280, ,
Tirupathi- 0877-2222010;
Bangalore: 080-22960013, 080-22960014
Mysore: 0821-2426001, 9741421486;
Coimbatore:
09003140680,
Chennai: 09003140681,
09840902919;
Madurai: 09840902915,
Katpadi: 09840948484;
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