Ayodhya (Deepotsav 2026)
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Experience My India's Deepotsav Ayodhya Package 2026 is the complete three-day festival - the Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra, the Pushpak Viman arrival and Rajyabhishek of Lord Rama, and the record night of around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, with a Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram and a drone sky show. Premium hotel or Swiss cottage, AC car, a guide and meals. Rated 4.9 out of 5 · 925+ reviews. Deepotsav 2026 runs Nov 6-8 and sells out early - WhatsApp +91-7302265809 to book. Jai Shri Ram 🙏
Experience My India's Deepotsav Ayodhya Package 2026 is the complete version of Ayodhya's most dazzling festival - three days that catch the whole of it, not just the single night of lamps that most visitors fly in for. Deepotsav 2026 runs from November 6 to 8, and this package follows its full arc.
Day 1 opens with the Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra, the festival-opening procession of decorated tableau floats and folk dancers from across India, and an evening of Ramleela and classical musical dramas by international troupes at Ram Katha Park. Day 2 is the main event: an early VIP darshan at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi, the symbolic Pushpak Viman arrival and the Rajyabhishek coronation of Lord Rama and Mata Sita, and then, as dusk falls, the record lighting of around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, followed by a Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram projection and a drone sky show. Day 3 is Diwali day itself, with the Ram Mandir's own morning decorations and first diyas, the old city's temples, and the famous festive street food.
Premium accommodation - an AC hotel or a Swiss-cottage tent - a private car, a guide and meals are included. Because it all sells out early, book well ahead. WhatsApp +91-7302265809.
Route overview
Ayodhya → Ayodhya
Departure
Ayodhya
Stop 1
Saket College to Ram Katha Park → The Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra and Ramleela (Nov 6)
Stop 2
Ram Janmabhoomi & main stage → VIP darshan, Pushpak Viman arrival and Rajyabhishek (Nov 7)
Stop 3
Ram Ki Paidi & 56 ghats → The record diya lighting, Maha Aarti, hologram and drones (Nov 7)
Stop 4
Old Ayodhya temples → Diwali morning at the Ram Mandir, Kanak Bhawan and Nageshwar Nath (Nov 8)
Final arrival
Ayodhya
3 days / 2 nights - the full Deepotsav 2026 programme, November 6 to 8
The Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra and Ramleela at Ram Katha Park
Pushpak Viman arrival and the Rajyabhishek coronation of Lord Rama and Mata Sita
Record night: around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, Maha Aarti, hologram and drone show
VIP or Sugam Ram Janmabhoomi darshan, and Diwali morning at the Ram Mandir
Premium AC hotel or Swiss-cottage tent, private AC car, guide and meals
You are met at Ayodhya Airport or Ayodhya Dham Junction and transferred to your pre-booked AC hotel or premium Swiss-cottage tent to check in and freshen up.
Day 1 (Nov 6) - Grand Shobha Yatra and Tableau Procession
The festival opens - a river of floats and folk dancers through the city, and Ramleela under the stars.
We take you to witness the Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra, the festival-opening procession that moves from Saket College to Ram Katha Park.
Highly decorated tableau floats depict scenes from the epic - the birth of Rama, the exile, the war in Lanka, the homecoming - and between them come folk dance troupes from across India, each state in its own costume and rhythm, so the procession is a moving panorama of the whole country's devotion to the one story.
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Arriving by noon leaves comfortable time before the roads around the procession route begin to fill.
We spend the evening at Ram Katha Park for classical musical dramas and Ramleela performances by international art troupes - the Ramayana told in many of the forms it has taken across Asia.
We return you to your hotel or tent for the night.
Stay
Ayodhya
We take you for an early VIP or Sugam darshan at the magnificent Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir and the revered Hanuman Garhi Temple, before the day's crowds build.
Day 2 (Nov 7) - The Main Event: the Record Diya Lighting
The great day - darshan and the royal coronation by daylight, and the record night of lamps by dusk.
Good to know
Security is strict at the Janmabhoomi - phones and bags are not allowed inside - so Experience My India builds in time for lockers and the VIP queue.
At the main festival stage we witness the symbolic Pushpak Viman arrival of Lord Rama and the royal coronation, the Rajyabhishek, of Lord Rama and Mata Sita - Ayodhya re-enacting, in its own streets, the return and the crowning of its king.
From your reserved viewing gallery or ghat area we watch the record lighting of around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, immediately followed by a grand Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram projection show, and a drone sky spectacle of some 2,100 drones.
Good to know
Roads close well before dusk and the galleries are administration-issued; Experience My India arranges access where available and positions you at a prime accessible viewing area, reached on foot from a planned point.
We bring you back to your hotel after the celebrations.
Stay
Ayodhya
We visit the jewel-like Kanak Bhawan, the historic Dashrath Mahal, and the ancient Nageshwar Nath Temple, said to have been founded by Kush, the son of Rama, and see the special Diwali-morning decorations and first diya lightings at the Ram Mandir - a quieter, more intimate moment than the vast spectacle of the night before.
Day 3 (Nov 8, Diwali) - Temples, Festive Food and Departure
Diwali morning in Rama's own city - the temples lit for the festival, and a last taste of Ayodhya.
We indulge in the local festive street foods - the famous Hanuman Garhi besan laddus, the prasad of the city's guardian temple, among them - and spend time shopping for spiritual souvenirs, from brass idols and rudraksha to Ram-darbar mementoes of the trip.
After checkout, a private transfer to Ayodhya Airport or Ayodhya Dham Junction for your onward journey.
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Tell Experience My India your departure time so the last day is unhurried and clear of the festival-day traffic.
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Most people think of Deepotsav as a single evening - the night the lamps are lit. It is far more than that, and the whole reason this is a three-day package rather than a flying one-night visit is to catch the parts that the record night alone leaves out.
The festival in 2026 runs across three days, November 6 to 8, and each has its own character. Day one, the sixth, belongs to the Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra - the opening procession from Saket College to Ram Katha Park, floats and folk troupes from across India, and an evening of Ramleela performed by international companies. It is colour and music and storytelling, the city dressing itself for what is to come. Day two, the seventh, is the main event: the ceremonies by day and the record lighting by night. And day three, the eighth, is Diwali itself, when Ayodhya's own temples - the Ram Mandir above all - light their first lamps of the festival in the quiet of the morning, a very different thing from the vast public spectacle of the night before.
The numbers of the record night are what draw the crowds, and in 2026 they are announced as large: around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and the 56 ghats along the Saryu, a grand Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram projection, and a drone sky show of some 2,100 drones. The exact figures are confirmed on the night - Ayodhya has set a new Guinness World Record almost every year - so we present them as the plan rather than a promise, but the scale is real whatever the final count.
A word on where you stay, because it matters more than usual this week. Ayodhya has grown fast but still has a limited number of quality rooms, and during Deepotsav they are gone months ahead. This is why the premium packages offer a Swiss-cottage tent as well as a hotel - clusters of furnished, carpeted tents with attached bathrooms and proper beds, set up for the festival, often closer to the ghats than the hotels and a comfortable base for the three days. We will tell you honestly which suits your group and your budget, and lock it before the city fills.
What a one-night visit misses is everything on either side of that - the procession, the coronation re-enactment, the hush of Diwali morning at the Janmabhoomi. Three days lets you live the festival rather than just photograph its peak. And because every bed and every viewing gallery in the city sells out months ahead at premium rates, the one rule of a Deepotsav trip is to book early. Experience My India secures the accommodation and the viewing before the rush and plans the three days to the official schedule. WhatsApp +91-7302265809.
There is a moment on the second day of Deepotsav that the cameras rarely capture as well as the lamps, and yet it is the one that goes deepest - the moment Ayodhya re-enacts the return of its king.
The whole festival exists because of a homecoming. Diwali itself, the texts tell us, began when Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya after fourteen years of exile and the people lit rows of lamps to welcome him. On Deepotsav, Ayodhya does not merely remember that night; it stages it. A symbolic Pushpak Viman - the flying chariot on which Rama is said to have returned - arrives bearing figures of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana, and at the main stage the Rajyabhishek, the royal coronation, is performed: Rama crowned king of Ayodhya, Sita beside him, the kingdom restored after all the years of waiting.
To stand in the crowd for this is a strange and moving thing. You are watching a piece of theatre, yes - costumes, a stage, a script that everyone in the audience already knows by heart. And yet you are watching it in the very city where the story is set, among tens of thousands of people for whom it is not a legend but the founding truth of the place they are standing in, and for whom the new temple on the skyline has made the homecoming feel, after centuries, finally complete. The lamps that night are lit for a king who, in that square, has just come home.
The Ramleela that runs alongside it deepens the feeling. For three nights at Ram Katha Park, troupes from across India and from Ramayana traditions abroad - from Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, wherever the epic travelled - perform the story in their own forms, their own music, their own masks and costumes. To watch a Thai or Balinese company tell the tale of Rama in the city where it is set is to see, in one place, how far this one story carried across Asia, and how many peoples made it their own.
Experience My India places you where you can see the ceremony as well as the lights, because the two belong together - the return by day, the welcome by night. Guests who come only for the diyas see a spectacle; those who see the coronation first understand what the spectacle is for. Jai Shri Ram.
Pro tip: Our local guides know these nuances intimately. They navigate crowds, time the darshan, handle protocols and share the stories textbooks miss.
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Deepotsav 2026 runs November 6 to 8 - the Grand Shobha Yatra on Nov 6, the record diya-lighting on Nov 7 (the eve of Diwali), and Diwali itself on Nov 8; dates are fixed to the lunar calendar and confirmed by UP Tourism.
This three-day package catches the whole festival - the Shobha Yatra, the ceremonies and record night, and Diwali day at the Ram Mandir - not just the one night of lamps.
The 2026 record night is announced as around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, with a Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram show and a sky show of some 2,100 drones; final figures are confirmed on the night.
Hotels and Swiss-cottage tents and viewing access sell out months ahead at premium rates - booking two to three months early is strongly advised.
The reserved viewing galleries at Ram Ki Paidi are administration-issued and limited - we arrange access where available and otherwise position you at a prime accessible viewing area.
Roads around Ram Ki Paidi close well before dusk on the record night - the evening is done on foot from a planned point with heavy security.
Shri Ram Janmabhoomi has strict security - phones, bags and most belongings are not allowed inside, so plan for lockers; we arrange VIP or Sugam darshan.
Expect large, joyful crowds; carry a light shawl for the November evenings, dress modestly, keep valuables secure, and agree a meeting point with your group.
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Experience My India's Deepotsav Ayodhya Package 2026 is the complete three-day festival - the Grand Ramayana Shobha Yatra, the Pushpak Viman arrival and Rajyabhishek of Lord Rama, and the record night of around 30 lakh diyas across Ram Ki Paidi and 56 ghats, with a Saryu Maha Aarti, a 3D hologram and a drone sky show. Premium hotel or Swiss cottage, AC car, a guide and meals. Rated 4.9 out of 5 · 925+ reviews. Deepotsav 2026 runs Nov 6-8 and sells out early - WhatsApp +91-7302265809 to book. Jai Shri Ram 🙏
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