Banke Bihari Temple Vrindavan

The darshan style — the curtain is drawn and closed again every few minutes rather than left open, so the deity is shown in glimpses.

Not to the door. Banke Bihari Temple Vrindavan sits in the old lanes, which are too narrow for a car and often busy with foot traffic, so we drop you at the nearest point a vehicle can reach and you walk the last stretch. The driver waits there. Tell us if anyone in the group cannot manage that walk and we will find the shortest approach.

Busy, and busiest at weekends, on festival days and through the Holi season. Going early is the single thing that makes the most difference. If your dates are fixed and they fall in a peak week, we will say so and plan the rest of the day around a longer wait here.

We do not publish fixed hours for any temple, and it is worth being wary of sites that do. Darshan timings across Braj move with the season, the festival calendar and the temple’s own decision, and most temples close for several hours around the middle of the day. Tell us your date and we will confirm the current timings before you travel, then build the day around them rather than against them.

Radha Raman, Nidhivan and Seva Kunj are the natural additions — all close enough to do on the same run. Tell us how long you have and we will sequence the stops so you are not crossing Vrindavan twice.

Yes, and that is how most of our temple trips work. We drop as close as the lanes allow, the driver waits, and you take as long as the darshan takes. The waiting time is not metered against you.