The Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) has announced special tour packages for devotees from Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur, Rourkela and Berhampur to visit Puri on the occasion of Rath Yatra, to be celebrated on July 3.
Tourists from Bhubaneswar can depart at 5 am on July 3 and return the same evening. The package includes AC transport, rooftop sitting arrangement on buses with breakfast, vegetarian lunch and snacks with tea and coffee. The package costs Rs 2,555 per head and Rs 2,005 for children below the age of 10.
Tourists from other cities will have to start a day before on July 2. The package cost for Sambalpur, Rourkela and Berhampur tourists is Rs 4,220, Rs 4,810 and Rs 4,640 per head respectively, OTDC managing director Manoranjan Patnaik said.
For high-end tourists there is provision for staying and visiting other neighbouring tourist places in the two nights and three days package. Such tourists will have AC accommodation in Puri and provision for visiting places like Konark Sun temple, Chandrabhaga, Satapada, cruise on Chilika lake, sightseeing of Irrawaddy dolphins, sea-mouth and Rajhans island, before coming back to Bhubaneswar. For single occupancy one has to pay Rs 24,640 per head in this package, Rs 14,805 per head for double occupancy and Rs 12,255 per head for triple occupancy.
OTDC is planning, booking of the roof-top of the temple office for the next year Rath Yatra as most of the buildings along the Grand Road had been declared unsafe. Balasore, Jeypore and Koraput would also be included in the next year’s package besides introducing a 15-day heritage package for NROs.
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