Every Indian couple grows up with the image of Sita and Ram as the ideal of what a marriage can be - a devotion that held through exile and separation and every trial, a loyalty and love so complete that their very names are spoken together, Sita-Ram, as a single word. To come to Ayodhya as a couple is to come to the home of that ideal, and to ask, quietly, that some of it settle on your own life together.
That is why a couple's darshan here carries a different weight from a solo or group visit. You are not only seeking the blessing of Lord Ram; you are standing, as two, before the model of marriage itself, in the city where that marriage began and endured. For couples who take their faith seriously, there is no more meaningful place to pray for their union, and no better way to do it than together, unhurried, in private.
Kanak Bhawan is the heart of this for a couple. The golden palace-temple, tradition says, was Sita's own, gifted to her by her mother-in-law Kaikeyi, and its sanctum holds Sita and Ram together, richly adorned. To stand before them as husband and wife, or as a couple about to become one, and to pray for your own togetherness, is the quiet centre of the whole trip - and we make sure you have time there, not a hurried glance.
The city gives the rest of the trip the same gentle, shared quality. The Saryu at sunset, the aarti watched side by side, the slow walk back through lanes thick with the name of Ram - these are not sights to be ticked off but moments to be shared, and they are what a couple remembers long after. A pilgrimage taken as two becomes, in some quiet way, part of the marriage itself.
Experience My India plans the two days so the devotion and the togetherness are held as one - a real darshan, taken privately and without rush, in the city of the ideal couple. May Sita and Ram bless your union. Jai Shri Ram.