Day 2:
After breakfast, enjoy guided tour of Mumbai city visiting the
Marine drive, Hanging Gardens, Crawford Market, the Afghan
Church in Colaba and the Prince of Wales Museum, the
Chowpatty, Beach etc. Overnight in hotel.
Day 3:
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After breakfast at hotel, drive to Nashik (also pronounced
NASIK), a sacred city on the banks of the River Godavari, is
now a throbbing industrial town. Its beautiful architecture,
temples and caves are a mute testimony to its
rich, eventful history. An ancient city, yet one that has ridden astride the
wheels of history and bears its footprints. The Egyptian historian Ptolemy
(A.D. 150) had found this place a flourishing center for trade and commerce.
The place abounds in temples, some of them more than two hundred years
old. The Sundranarayan Temple with its richly carved and domed porticoes,
its highly ornamented central dome and spire - all made of beautifully dressed
stone is a treat for the eyes. The Kampaleshwar temple of lord Shiva wearing
a skull. Temple of Balaji built on the confluence of the Godavari and the
Saraswati that flows underground has copper images of Balaji, Ramadevi and
Laxmi decked with valuable jewellery and Balaji wears a gold mask. The
other temples of note are the Kalaram Mandir, the Goraram Mandir and the
Rameshwar or Bell temple. In some temples, the lingas date back to the age
of Rama. It is no wonder then that Nasik is called the Benares of southern
India and the Godavari, the Ganges of the South. Overnight in hotel.
Day 4:
Morning drive to Trimbakeshwar. It is famous for the
Trimbakeshwar Temple and source of the Godavari River.
Trimbakeshwar enshrines one of the 12 Jyotir l ingas
dedicated to Shiva and this one is considered to be the main
jyotirlinga. Legend has it that Guatam Rishi performed a rigorous ritual of
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