Tour package
5 Days Mathura Vrindavan Holi Package
Five days is the version that lets you attend the Braj Holi events without racing between them. It covers Mathura, Vrindavan, Barsana and Nandgaon — the full set of towns that matter during the festival — and leaves enough slack that a delayed start does not cost you a celebration.
Five days is the version that lets you attend the Braj Holi events without racing between them. It covers Mathura, Vrindavan, Barsana and Nandgaon — the full set of towns that matter during the festival — and leaves enough slack that a delayed start does not cost you a celebration.
The programme takes in Phoolon ki Holi at Banke Bihari, where flowers replace colour; Lathmar Holi at Barsana and Nandgaon; the Widow Holi in Vrindavan; and the temple celebrations at ISKCON. Each is a different thing, and seeing several of them is what makes a Braj Holi trip worth the journey.
Between the big events there is time for aarti, for the ghats in the evening, and for the ordinary devotional life of the towns that carries on underneath the festival. The extra day over the four-day trip is spent on that rather than on more crowd.
Four nights are arranged near the main venues, with private transport throughout and someone coordinating on the ground during the events. It suits families, people who want to photograph the festival properly, and visitors from abroad who would struggle to navigate festival week alone.
Tour highlights
What this trip covers
Places on this route
Good to know
Included with your booking
Tour Includes
IN THE FARE- A guide where the itinerary calls for one
- Entry tickets for the monuments and temples named in the plan
- Your private AC vehicle for the whole trip, at the destination
- Tolls, state taxes and the driver’s batta — all in the quoted fare
- Parking, and intercity permits where a route needs them
Tour Excludes
PAY DIRECTLY- Rooms and hotel bills
- Food, drinks and anything personal
- Camera and video charges, where a monument bills them separately
- Anything the inclusions above do not name
These terms are the same on every package we run.
5 days, planned day by day
22 stops in the plan, starting around 10:00 AM. The order below is the order the driver works to, so the page and the day match.
Built to avoid backtracking
Stops are arranged so you are not crossing the same ground twice, and so the busiest darshan falls at its calmest hour rather than its worst.
Drop points chosen, not guessed
Several temples here cannot be reached by car at all. The driver takes you to the nearest point that works and waits there, which is a different thing from being left at a car park.
Private vehicle, one driver
A private AC cab for the whole trip, never shared and never swapped part-way. The car stays with you at every stop.
One figure, not a rate card
Tolls, state taxes, parking and the driver’s allowance are inside the quote. Rooms and meals are separate and quoted on request.
Flexible where it needs to be
Darshan queues and traffic move the clock. When they do, the driver changes the order of the day instead of making you stand in the longest queue — and tells you before doing it.
Detailed itinerary
Day by Day, Hour by Hour
Times are planned, not fixed. Darshan queues, traffic and temple slots move on the day — your driver adjusts the order rather than dropping stops.
Arrival & Laddu Holi in Barsana
Arrival in Mathura & Hotel Check-in
Into Mathura, check in and freshen up.
Departure for Barsana
On to Barsana, Shri Radha Rani’s village.
Laddu Holi at Barsana
Laddu Holi, with laddus coming down over the crowd.
Return to Mathura • Dinner
Back to the hotel for dinner and the night.
Lathmar Holi in Barsana
Breakfast at Hotel
An early breakfast, then Barsana.
Shriji Temple & Kirti Temple Visit
Morning darshan at Barsana’s main temples.
Lathmar Holi Celebrations
Lathmar Holi, in the form Barsana has kept it.
Return to Mathura • Dinner
Back to the hotel for dinner and the night.
Holi Celebrations in Nandgaon
Breakfast & Departure
After breakfast, on to Nandgaon.
Holi Celebrations in Nandgaon
Holi in the village Krishna grew up in.
Return to Mathura
Back in the evening, and the night there.
Phoolon Ki Holi in Vrindavan
Breakfast & Travel to Vrindavan
On to Vrindavan for Phoolon ki Holi.
Banke Bihari Temple & ISKCON Visit
Darshan at the main Vrindavan temples before it starts.
Phoolon Ki Holi
The flower Holi, with petals coming down instead of colour.
Return to Mathura • Dinner
Dinner and the night at the hotel.
Mathura Sightseeing & Departure
Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi & Prem Mandir
A last round of temples before you leave.
Departure to Home Destination
That ends the Braj Holi run.
Gallery
Photos from this tour
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