01 · Patna · 1–2 days
Patna
Bihar's capital on the Ganga — the beehive-shaped Golghar, the Bihar Museum's Didarganj Yakshi, Takht Sri Patna Sahib, and the excavated pillared hall of Mauryan Pataliputra at Kumhrar.
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Sikh Circuit
The Guru's birthplace and the roads he travelled
Guru Gobind Singh was born in Patna in 1666 and spent his first years here; Takht Sri Patna Sahib is one of the five seats of Sikh authority. The other gurdwaras of his childhood — Bal Leela, Gobind Ghat, Handi Sahib at Danapur where Guru Tegh Bahadur was served khichdi in a handi, Guru ka Bagh where father and son met — make a day in Patna, and Gaya, Rajgir and Munger each keep gurdwaras from the Gurus' eastern journeys. Prakash Parv in December–January is the time.
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3 days / 2 nights · Gentle
Sacred Magadh in a weekend
Three days in the cradle of Buddhism with a Hindu pilgrim town and the oldest caves in India thrown in — all within an hour of one hotel bed.
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10 days / 9 nights · Steady
The Grand Tour of Bihar
The Kaimur forts, the Buddhist heartland, the capital, the Ganga towns and Mithila — the complete arc of Bihar's history and landscape, with a slack day built in for the place you fall in love with.
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Sasaram, before anyone else wakes up
Field note · 4 min
Fourteen minutes above Rajgir
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