Kesaria
The tallest Buddhist stupa standing, where the Buddha gave the Licchavis his begging bowl and turned them back.
North Bihar
Places around Kesaria
- Kesariya Stupa: One of the tallest Buddhist stupas in the world
- Ashokan Pillar, Lauriya Areraj: It is one of the surviving inscribed Ashokan pillars, visited on the Buddhist circuit and in...
- Someshwar Nath Temple, Areraj: Devotees come to pour water on the Someshwar Nath lingam; lakhs of pilgrims arrive from other districts...
More to see and do
Champaran meat (ahuna)
Mutton sealed in a clay handi and cooked for hours over coals, from Champaran.
Meat marinated in mustard oil, ghee, garlic, onion and spices, sealed in an earthen pot with dough and shaken, never stirred.
Marcha rice and chura
A pepper-grained, fragrant rice from West Champaran, GI-registered in 2023, famous as chura.
A tall rice grown in Mainatand, Gaunaha, Narkatiaganj, Ramnagar and Chanpatia blocks, whose flattened rice carries its scent.
Yatras through Kesaria
- Buddhist Yatra: The road the Buddha walked, in the order he walked it
- Mauryan and Ashokan Bihar: The capital of an empire that reached Afghanistan, and the pillars it left behind
- Champaran and Gandhi: The first satyagraha in India happened in a Bihar indigo district in 1917
Experiences
- Valmiki Tiger Reserve: Bihar's only tiger reserve, in the forest along the Nepal border
Tirtham can arrange here
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