Enjoy India group tours with Mathura and Vrindavan, the land of Lord Krishna

     

Two important places on Golden Triangle Tours, Mathura is closely associated with a deeper aspect of Indian Mythology and a way of Indian living, the Lord Krishna, can be planned with India Group Tours. Mathura and Vrindavan closely associated with the life of Lord Krishna are two most important centres of Hindu Pilgrimage. On the route to Golden TriangleGroup Tours, Mathura is located around 50 Kilometers away from Agra and 145 Kilometers from Delhi is birth place of Lord Krishna and is being popularly known as  Brij Bhoomi or Shir Krishna Janma Bhoomi. 

Holy at Mathura

An ancient city, Mathura even has mention in the oldest Indian epic, the Ramayana.  The city in the 6^th century BCE was the capital of Surasena Mahajanapada. The city was even under the rule of Maurya Empire and the Shugna Dynasty between 4^th to 2^nd century. However, the best period of Mathura under Indian history was when it was one of the capitals of Kushan dynasty.     

Baldev Temple Mathura                      

For a visitor’s perspective, whether, he is coming to the city on day tour or on an India Group Tours by train it can reach there from any corner of India. The city is well connected to all the important Indian cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Indore, Alwar, Jaipur, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Rewa, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi etc. Different Highways connect Mathura with the rest of the country.  NH 2 (Delhi-Howrah), National Highway 3 (to Mumbai), a part of which is known as Mathura Road. NH-11 (Agra to Bikaner) and NH-93 (Moradabad) all connects to Mathura. If in hurry, Yamuna Expressway connects Mathura in shortest time.

At present city has no airport, however, the closest airport to the city is Agra airport.  For tourist Mathura has a very high reputation and status. It is considered as a holy city for Hindus. It has many places of religious importance within the city. The twin city to Mathura is Vrindavan, where Lord Krsihna spent his childhood and youth and a great spiritual pleasure for you on India tour packages. 

Bake Bihari Temple Mathura

The cities of Mathura and Vrindavan has approximately has around 7000 temples in total. Some important temples that you can visit on India group tours of India are Keshav Dev Temple (Shri Krishna Janma Bhoomi),   Vishram Ghat (Bank of River Yamuna),  Shri Jagannath Temple Bhuteshwar Mathura,     Prem Mandir, Vrindavan,  Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, Vrindavan,  Mathura Museum, Birla Mandir,   Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi,  Naam yog Sadhna Mandir (Baba Jai Gurudev Temple), Banke Bihari Temple, Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi, Iskcon Temple, Baldeo temple, Bhuteshwar temple and others.  

Iskon Temple, Mathura 

Matura merely is not a birth place of Lord Krishna and is being revered for carving out a unique Indian cultural image. The value of entire Brij region is centred about lord Krishna and his tales. Mathura gets wrapped with entirely different colours during Holi and Krishna Janmasthami.