Somnath Dwarka Tour Package by Bus

The same four days cost Rs. 13,999 per person by car and Rs. 7,999 here. That is roughly six thousand rupees a head, and on a group of thirty it is the difference between a yatra happening and not happening. We sell this product because for a lot of pilgrimage groups it is the right one, and we are not going to be coy about why it costs less.

Bet Dwarka moves from included to optional. That is the big one. On the car and tempo traveller versions the island is part of day two. Here it is an extra, and the reason is distance: Bet Dwarka is about 33 km from Dwarka, roughly forty five minutes each way, so a coach doing it properly gives up most of a morning. If the island matters to you, say so at the enquiry and we will price it in rather than leave you to find out on day two.

The vehicle runs to a timetable, not to your darshan. A coach leaves when the coach leaves. A car waits while a queue clears. That is the flexibility the lower price is made of, and it is a real trade rather than a marketing distinction.

Everything else survives. Three nights of hotel, breakfast every morning, Dwarkadhish evening darshan, Nageshwar, the run to Somnath through Porbandar, the 19:00 aarti and a final morning at Triveni Sangam. The temples do not know what you arrived in.

The route is the standard four day plan with the island removed from day two. Arrival in Dwarka by coach and the evening Dwarkadhish darshan, a day covering Nageshwar and Rukmini, the run to Somnath through Porbandar for the 19:00 aarti, then Somnath darshan and Triveni Sangam on the last morning. The full hour by hour version is on the 4 days 3 nights plan, and everything there holds except the island.

If you want Bet Dwarka, decide before you book. The island's own Dwarkadhish temple runs a morning session and an evening one and closes through the middle of the day, so an excursion added on the morning of day two does not work. It has to be built into the day from the start, which means it has to be in the quote. This is the one thing on this page we would ask you to answer now rather than later.

Read the Bet Dwarka row twice. It is the row that decides which of these three pages you should be on.

From, per person — Rs. 7,999: Rs. 12,999

Best for — Larger pilgrimage groups: Groups of roughly 8 to 17

Bet Dwarka — Optional, priced separately: Included

Waits for a long queue — No, it runs to the group timetable: Yes

Nights and breakfast — Three nights, breakfast daily: Same

The omission nobody reads. A group books on price, arrives, and discovers on day two that the island everyone assumed was included is a separate excursion. That is the single most common complaint about budget packages on this coast and it is entirely avoidable, which is why it is written at the top of this page rather than the bottom. The second is the coach timetable: if your group is slow at gates, the vehicle does not absorb it the way a car does, and the Somnath 19:00 aarti is a fixed point that waits for nobody. The third is seasonal: Somnath's light and sound show does not run in the monsoon, so a July group plans the evening around the aarti alone.

Bet Dwarka is optional on this package, not included. Ask for it at the enquiry stage.

The Bet Dwarka temple closes through the middle of the day, so the excursion cannot be added on the morning.

The coach runs to a group timetable and does not wait the way a private car does.

Dwarkadhish closes 13:00 to 17:00, so a mid afternoon arrival waits for the evening.

Somnath bans all electronics inside. Free lockers and a free shoe house are at the gate.

Somnath's light and sound show does not run during the monsoon.