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Places to visit in Puri and Bhuvneshwar

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Now that the plan is fixed to Puri Jaganath and Bhuvneshwar. All the flights to Puri are in day time and its just 1.15 hrs from Hyderabad. From Bhuvneshwar Airport take a cab to Puri Beach(which is 60kms) and this location has all the hotels along side the beach road. Now, let's go to the different places which are a part of my itinerary. Places to Visit in Puri  Day 1: Puri Jaganath Temple: The very first thing anyone needs to do is to visit this temple and then roam to other locations. Puri Jaganath temple is about 3 to 5kms from beach road and you can either book a cab through the hotels(for overall trip) / the mini autos / 7 seater autos / rent a bike. There is no uber / ola. Started at 11 am from hotel took an auto to Puri temple      Puri Jaganath temple has entrance in all the 4 corners of which there is only 1 main entrance. The autos will take some sort of short cuts and drop you at their convenient entrance gate and do you know what non-Puri or non-Odisha people are not

Trip to Vaishno Devi + Kashmir changed to Puri Jaganath + Bhuvneshwar in no time

Like every other IT employee even I had lot of leaves which is going to get expired by year end so had a very good thought of utilizing it to the fullest. Considering where my mom wanted to visit and where I never visited, we had multiple options      1. Isha Foundation       2. Tirupati       3. Vaishno Devi      4. Any International travel  I have seen so many posts/videos of Isha Foundation that I really wanted to experience the peace, but when I actually visited Isha Foundation site looks like Isha Stay is booked for the whole month(coming 2 to 3 months as well) and it also says " please do not book any flight until your stay is booked " this sentence was more than enough for me to cancel Option 1.       Now I am just left with Option 2 and 3, so I started checking out Tirumala website to book Tirupati Special Darshan, but my luck was so bad that looks like tickets   needs to be booked 3 months earlier and that too on a specific date and clearly it's not possible to