
Pilgrimage Tours
India is the land known for the birth of many religions. This land is also home to the many holy temples and pilgrim destinations dotting the Indian landscape. These holy places of worship like temples, mosques, monasteries, churches and Gurdwaras attract millions of pilgrims and devotees who wait for the years to embark on the pilgrimage tours. People of different faiths visit India to seek the blessings of Gods and goddesses.
India is country with a number of religions but the largest religion is Hinduism and so the number of Hindu devotees on pilgrimage tours to India is also high. Being the oldest religion of the world, there are various temples and shrines in India dedicated to the Hindu deities. Hindu devotees living in different parts of India keep pouring into India to seek the blessing of their deities.
Apart from Hindus, the followers of other faith also visit Indian Territory to pay obeisance to their deities. As it is the birth place of religions like Buddhism and Jainism there are various thing attached with these two religions and hence attracts a large number of tourists from India and worldwide. The most often visited tourist destinations for Buddhists are Bodhgaya (where lord Buddha got enlightenment and Sarnath, where He preached his first sermon.
Although in minority the Sikhs have excellent places of worship in the form of Anandpur Sahib, Golden Temple and Gurudwara Bangla Sahib. There are also a good number of peoples of the Christianity and Islamic faiths who keep coming on pilgrimage tours to India.
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