Bhubaneswar: Puri-Gangasagar Divya Kashi Yatra Bharat Gaurav Train was flagged off by Minister of State for Railways Raosaheb Danve from Pune station on Friday.
The nine nights, 10 days tour package, offered by the IRCTC will cover religious destinations in Puri, Kolkata, Gaya, Varanasi and Prayagraj. The passengers will get to see famous temples and other pilgrimage places such as Jagannath Temple in Puri, Sun Temple at Konark, Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar, Kali Bari at Kolkata and Ganga Sagar, Vishnu Pad Temple and Bodh Gaya at Gaya, Kashi Vishwanath Temple and Ganga Ghat at Varanasi and Triveni Sangam at Prayagraj.
These theme-based trains have been conceptualised to showcase the rich cultural and religious heritage of Bharat to the domestic tourists as well as to the international tourists.
The all-inclusive tour offers comfortable rail journey in the exclusive LHB rake of Bharat Gaurav Train (7 Sleeper Class Coaches, 3 AC-3 Tier and 1 AC- 2 Tier coach) and complete on-board and off-board meals, road transfers and sightseeing in quality buses, accommodation arrangement as per itinerary, service of tour escorts, travel insurance, on-board security and housekeeping besides various on-board entertainment activities planned for the tourists, sources said.
