Hare Krsna dear devotees,
Those who are very experienced in doing Vrindavan dham yatra, your insight is required.
How do you plan your visit to the temples (in what order), timings, which temples to visit.
Please give all your valuable feedback in detail.
Kindly help
Your servant
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Hare Krishna prabhuji 🙏
Train goes to Mathura railway station. If you reach Mathura in early morning. U can stay in hotel and after that u can take darshan of dwarkadheesh temple of Mathura . U can visit Krishna janambhoomi also. Till 12 o clock in winters they are opened so both of these two places you can visit in Mathura plus u can visit some ghat of Yamuna river like gau ghat, vishram Ghat and all.
As soon as we enter in vraj area , every place is so relishing because we can read many dialogues related to radha krishna plus images of Krishna and his pasttimes or Radhe Radhe likewise. Plus narrow streets , local vraj language by native people there gives v.nice feelings. But I am mentioning some important places where generally people want to go. So this is about Mathura where u can visit dwarkadheesh temple, Krishna janambhoomi, and Yamuna river.
Now after that u can have lunch then you can go Vrindavan near 3.00 pm. Vrindavan is about half an hour distant from Mathura and u can easily go from Mathura by bus or by magic taxi or by zeep or by auto.
As I know nidhivan in Vrindavan opens at 3.0 or 3.30 pm so u can first visit nidhivan. Nidhivan is tht place where Krishna performed raas and it is believed that Krishna daily comes here in night. Here all trees are not ordinary they are Gopis and they all are bended . It is considered the particular dancing form of that gopi in which tree is bend. U will really feel transcendental here. Just few steps near to nidhivan there is one more similar place named seva kunj. U can cover this place too. After these two places I would suggest you to visit rang ji temple. This is v.big temple and made according to south style temples. It takes complete one and half an hour to visit. U will definitely love to see lord Vishnu lying on Sheshnag , lord Ranganath, lord Balaji, lord Narasimha dev. Here is sheeshmahal sort of room also where ticket is charged. In this small hall Sri ramanujacrya is placed. And walls are made of glasses so it shines. Here south devotees do all rituals and total 108 houses for south devotees is here. All this is about rang nath ji temple. I think after nidhivan seva kunj and rang ji temple time will be near about 7.00 in evening. If you get time u can visit shah ji temple. This is also famous for its sculpture. This will complete your day one. After 8.00 pm all temples will be closed so u can take dinner prasdam and rest . U can stay in any hotel of Vrindavan.
Next day in Vrindavan.... Let's start with mangla darshan of most beloved banke bihari lal whose many true reaslization with devotees are popular. May you also have one. After mangla darshan u can visit radha Damodar temple which is at walking distance from banke bihari temple. After that I would recommend u to visit radharaman temple. U can hire riksha to go there. U can search on Google for magnificent pastimes of radharaman ji . He is self appeared deity and many more interesting facts about this temple. So after this temple u can move on to madan Mohan temple which is near to radharaman temple but u should hire riksha to go there. After that u can visit radha Damodar temple. Srila Prabhupada ji lived in this temple . Rupa Goswami Ji worshipped this deity. I think this will cover ur day time and 12.00 clock will be there. Now take lunch and rest or u can again visit Yamuna river. Here u can enjoy boating also. Or u can worship Yamuna maharani too. In evening u first go to pagal Baba temple then Prem Mandir and then iskcon temple. Pagal Baba temple is far from Prem Mandir and iskcon temple so u can early depart to this temple like 4.00 clock . After taking darshan come to Prem Mandir at 6.00 clock about .Prem Mandir is also big temple and u need one hour to visit it. Here light show is famous . Near about 7.00 clock move to iskcon temple, have darshan and chanting . Visit prabhupad house. And then take diner and rest.
Day three in Vrindavan. Here one Birla temple is also famous. If you like you can visit otherwise u can move to govardhan . About 40 min or half an hour it takes to go to govardhan. Here two main temples. One is called daanghati temple . It is at the beginning of parikrma . Take darshan of this temple then do parikrama. I will suggest you to do parikrama with riksha because it is 3 4 day trip so u will get tired if you do parikrama by foot. It's 21 km long. So first time do it with riksha , with riksha it takes half an hour around . With foot it takes 6 hour around. So if you start parikrma with riksha at 10.00 am u can take darshan's in all temples in the path of parikrma and and complete parikrma till 11.00 am at the end of parikrma there is one more main temple of govardhan ji near mansi ganaga. Offer your worship there. This will complete your day time visit of govardhan ji. Now take lunch . Here in govardhan there is not much hotels . Only one brijvasi and one more I am missing its name is famous . Some small shops are also there for foods. But big hotels are not much here.
Now come to next places that is barsana and nand gaon.
Both places have way from govardhan. So u can take auto or zeep from govardhan. Go to barsana it takes near about 2.30 hour. In evening take darshan in barsana. I don't know much about nandgaon . So can't tell .
If you return from barsana after evening darshan u will be back to govardhan first then u can come back to Mathura and as per ur train schedule u can stay in Mathura
Explaining all this make me v.nostalgic.
Thanks prabhuji , have a blissful journey.
Hare Krishna