Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Bihar Tour for Nalanda

Nalanda
Nalanda is famous for old university. It is In Bihar. It is far from Patna about 55 miles in south east. We know Patna is the capital of Bihar. I have already wrtten about Bihar tourism in my previous post and have some about Nalanda also. But here I want to explain about Nalanda visit in details.

How to reach Nalanda : You can take a car or can visit by bus from Patna. To come Patna there is Airport and Junctions also.

What visit there : There are lots of thing to visit in Nalanda. You can visit old university of Nalanda. It is famous in world. It has own history. In the university students were from China, India, Bengal etc. It is the place of Buddhist also.

Here, you can research and enjoy also with ancient art, design and culture. About it people says that It was the 1st residential university and over 10,000 students and about 2,000 teachers are there. According to history it was built in Gupta kingdom in 450 century.

About its decline people and history says that it was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. It was big university so you have big place to visit here.

Place of Nalanda University: Sariputta Stupa, The mounds at Nalanda and Buddhist center.

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