Tantric Pilgrimage

1.       Kamakhya

2.       Kalighat

3.       Vaital, Bhubhaneshwar

4.       Eklingi – Udaipur

5.       Balaji – Jaipur-Udaipur highway

6.       Khajuraho

7.       Bhairon – Ujjain

8.       Mahakaleshwar Ujjain

9.       Gorakhnath ki Dibri – Himachal, Jwala mukhi temple

10.   Baijnath (near  Jwala mukhi temple)

11.   Pemayangtse Monastry – Sikkim

HOW TO REACH

Kamakhya

The Kamakhya Temple is in Guwahati, Assam. The Gopinath Bordoloi airport at Borzhar, 14 km from the city center, connects Guwahati with Delhi (2½ hours), Calcutta (1½ hours), Imphal, Agartala, Aizawl, Dibrugarh, Tezpur and Jorhat. There is a railway station at Kamakhya, but the main railhead is at Paltan Bazaar located 7 km away. There are four trains from/to Delhi, and many others to places like Calcutta, New Jalpaiguri, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kochi, and Thiruvananthapuram. There are regular buses to Shillong, Kaziranga, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Imphal, Dimapur, Siliguri, Bomdila, Silchar, etc.

Kalighat

The international airport is the Netaji Subhash Airport at Dumdum, 17 km from the city center. Howrah and Sealdah are the two major railway stations. Kalighat is also easily accessible by metro railway as well as local buses.

Bishnupur

There are regular trains from the Sealdah station in Calcutta to Bishnupur. Buses are also frequent

Bhubaneswar

Regular flights operate from the Biju Patnaik Airport in Bhubaneswar to Calcutta, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Vishakhapatnam, Hyderabad, and Raipur. The city is also linked by rail with Calcutta, Puri, Madras, Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Tirupati, and Trivandrum. Regular buses ply regularly between Bhubaneswar and Berhampur, Chilika, Cuttack, Konark, Paradip, Puri, Rourkela, Sambalpur and other places. Interstate bus services operate daily between Calcutta and Puri via Bhubaneswar and Tatanagar (Jamshedpur).

Eklingi (Udaipur)

Indian Airlines flights connect Udaipur with Jodhpur, Jaipur, Aurangabad, Mumbai and Delhi. Udaipur is also linked with major cities by rail.

Balaji

Agra, located 56 km away, is the nearest airport. Buses ply to Balaji from Bharatpur, which is also a convenient railhead.

Khajuraho

Khajuraho is well connected by air to Delhi, Varanasi, Kathmandu and Agra and has daily flights to and from these places. The nearest railheads from Khajuraho are Harpalpur (94 km) and Mahoba (63 km). Buses for Khajuraho are available from Jhansi, Chattarpur, Satna, and Raj Nagar.

Bhairon and Mahakaleswar Temple (Ujjain)

The nearest airport is at Indore, 55 km away. Indore is connected by air to Bhopal, Mumbai, Delhi and Gwalior. Ujjain is an important railway station on the Western Railway network and connected with most of the major cities in India. Good motorable roads connect Ujjain with Ahmedabad (402 km), Bhopal (183 km), Bombay (655 km), Delhi (774 km), Gwalior (451 km), Indore (53 km), Khajuraho (570 km), and Mandu (158 km).

Gorakhnath ki Dhibri (Jwalamukhi)

Buses and taxis connect Jwalamukhi to Chandigarh. Regular buses ply to and from Jwalamukhi and other places in Himachal Pradesh. The recently introduced narrow-gauge train named Kangra Queen, which runs between Pathankot and Palampur, stops at Jwalamukhi.

Baijnath

Baijnath is in Kausani. To reach Kausani, one has to reach the airport at Pant Nagar (180 km). The nearest rail station, Kathgodam, is frequented by trains like Shatabdi Express, Howrah Express, Ranikhet Express, Rampur Passenger and Nainital Express. Kasauni can be accessed by roads from Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Nainital, Pant Nagar and Ranikhet.

Sikkim

To visit Sikkim, one has to reach Siliguri in West Bengal. The Bagdogra airport near Siliguri has daily flights from New Delhi and Calcutta (excluding Thursdays). The railway stations at Siliguri New Jalpaiguri (5 km from Siliguri) can be accessed from selected cities of the country. Recently a four-seater helicopter service from Bagdogra to Gangtok has been started