అయోధ్య యాత్ర కంఫర్ట్ — ఢిల్లీ నుండి 4 రోజులు

Boarding is at Anand Vihar — the exact train (Vande Bharat 22425, which does not run on Wednesdays, or the running Tejas/Express on your dates) confirmed a week before travel. The train pulls into Ayodhya Cantt in the mid-afternoon, around 2:30 PM. Our coordinator meets you on the platform, the cab drives you the 4 km to the hotel, and after a short rest we walk up to Hanuman Garhi for the evening. Hanuman Garhi sits on a small hill in the centre of old Ayodhya — 76 steps up, a darshan of Bal Hanuman in his garbhagriha, and a Hanuman Chalisa session at the courtyard with a local pujari. The temple stays open till 10 PM in winter; we take it at a calm pace. Back to the hotel for dinner.

The day of the Ram Mandir darshan. Entry is free and unslotted — there is no time-slot to book — so we take you in during the early-morning window, typically 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, when the queues are shortest and the temple is at its calmest. Darshan itself runs continuously from 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM. After breakfast at the hotel, our coordinator walks you to the entry gate, the phone-locker, and the security check. The darshan route runs through the parikrama mandapam, past the garbhagriha of Ram Lalla, and back out through the exit. Allow about an hour end-to-end. After Ram Janmabhoomi we walk a few hundred metres to Kanak Bhawan — the private mahal of Sita-Ram, painted gold and silver — for the late-morning darshan; then Nageshwarnath, the Shiva shrine that tradition assigns to Kush, son of Ram; and Dashrath Mahal, the palace where Dashrath is held to have raised his four sons. Lunch on your own at the parikrama lanes (kachori-jalebi, the Avadhi thali at any of the named shops). Back to the hotel for an afternoon rest, an evening parikrama walk if you have energy, and dinner at the hotel.

The day of the Saryu. We start early at the ghats — Ram Ki Paidi or Naya Ghat depending on water level — for the morning snan and a small tarpan if you wish to do one for ancestors. Back to the hotel for breakfast. Mid-morning we visit Sita Rasoi — the kitchen-shrine within the Ram Janmabhoomi complex annexe where Sita is held to have cooked for her family; Treta ke Thakur on the Naya Ghat side, the old temple of Ram-Sita-Lakshman that tradition links to the Ashvamedha Yajna — its sanctum opens only once a year, on Kartik Shukla Ekadashi, so on other dates the darshan is from outside; Choti Devkali, the Shakti shrine that tradition assigns as Sita's kuldevi; and Lakshman Quila on the Saryu bank, dedicated to Lakshman. Lunch on your own. The evening is the heart of the day. We walk to the Saryu Aarti viewing area at Ram Ki Paidi about 45 minutes before the aarti — around 5:00 PM in winter, around 6:00 PM in summer, settle into the reserved bench arranged through the local arti samiti, and sit through the 45-minute lamp-rite as the Saryu turns gold with the deep-flames. Dinner at the hotel after.

An early breakfast at the hotel, then a 20 km drive out to Bharat Kund on the Ayodhya outskirts — the tank and shrine that tradition links to Bharat, who lived here as an ascetic for fourteen years while Ram was in vanvas, with Ram's khadau placed on the throne in his stead. The kund is quiet, the temple small, the surrounding fields green; an unhurried morning darshan and a short walk on the bund. Back to the hotel by late morning, checkout, lunch on your own at the hotel restaurant or a parikrama-lane shop, and the cab to Ayodhya Cantt for the afternoon train. The Vande Bharat 22426 leaves at 3:25 PM and drops you at Anand Vihar close to midnight, around 11:40 PM. The yatra ends as it began: at the railway platform, with the Saryu Aarti still in the eyes.