Bhubaneshwar Tour Packages

There are times to experience a particular kind of silence in the city of Bhubaneswar, which is not merely an urban replacement for the ancient ones that existed before it, but is, in fact, living and breathing with the same. Known as 'The Temple City of India,' Bhubaneswar is not just a tourist destination, but a living example of faith, built into the very ochre the earth is marked with. The air is perfumed with sandalwood and is filled with the sound of the temple bells, a sound that has been uninterrupted for over one thousand years.

The skyline of Bhubaneswar resembles a forest of sandstone towers or deulas, all carved with a compositional complexity that humbles your modern vision.

At Cholan Tours, we believe travelling to this city should be like taking a slow walk through the corridors of time; it is about seeing how the very first rays of the sun would light up the 11th-century Lingaraj Temple and be taken back by the height (180 ft) of its tower and how insignificant we are in comparison to the universe.

But the soul of the city extends beyond the sanctum. It lives in the Mukteshvara Temple, often called the ‘gem’ of Odishan architecture, where an exquisite stone archway frames the sky like a portal to another era. For those who seek the quietude of the mind, the Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves offer a glimpse into the ascetic lives of Jain monks from the 2nd century BCE, their rock-cut dwellings overlooking the city like silent sentinels.