{"id":4013,"date":"2015-11-09T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2015\/11\/09\/new-buddhist-train-launches-in-india\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:31:48","slug":"new-buddhist-train-launches-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"New Buddhist train launches in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A special train for India\u2019s Buddhist tourism circuit launched on Saturday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The&nbsp;Economic Times&nbsp;reports that the special pilgrimmage train will operate a total of six journeys between now and March 2016. The seven-night, eight-day itinerary will take Buddhist travellers to a series of important religious sites, starting at Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar and ending at the Taj Mahal in Agra.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stops en route include Rajgir and Nalanda in Bihar, and Sarnath, Kushinagar and Shravasti in Uttar Pradesh.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A senior official at India\u2019s Ministry of Railways said the train would offer \u201ca safe, comfortable and reliable package for international as well as domestic travellers\u201d.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Operated by Indian Railways Tourism &amp; Catering Corporation (IRCTC), the train will offer 274 seats in a choice of three air-conditioned carriage classes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tour packages include train journeys, hotel accommodation, road transport, tour guide services, meals, travel insurance, admission fees to the Buddhist sites<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special train for India\u2019s Buddhist tourism circuit launched on Saturday. The&nbsp;Economic Times&nbsp;reports that the special pilgrimmage train will operate a total of six journeys between now and March 2016. The seven-night, eight-day itinerary will take Buddhist travellers to a series of important religious sites, starting at Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---economy-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}