Vrindavana Parikrama

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It is customary for devotees to circumambulate the town of Vrindavana. There is a parikrama path that goes around the town. This path is one street over from the ISKCON temple. It usually takes two to three hours to go around Vrindavana if you do not stop. The parikrama path is 10km (6 miles). Some of the places passed on the way are: Mohana Ter, Kaliya Ghata, Madana-Mohan Temple, Imli Tala, Sringara Vat, and Keshi Ghata.
The favorite day that people do Vrindavana parikrama is ekadasi (the eleventh day of the waxing and waning moon). It is customary to do this walk with bare feet, which is fairly painless, even if you rarely walk barefoot.

Vrindavan Parikrama (Walking Around Vrindavana)
If you start parikrama on the junction of the main road (Bhaktivedanta Svami Marg or Chatikara Road) and the parikrama path near the Krishna Balarama Temple, you will walk about six minutes (440m) and then reach the Krishna-Balarama tree. Most devotees circle this tree and then continue on the path.

You then proceed straight on the path for another minute and a half (120m), and you make a left and an immediate right. You then walk another three minutes and on your left is Gautam Rishi’s Ashrama and on the right is Varaha Ghata. You walk another 50m and you reach a T intersection (the road ends). You make a right here and follow the dirt path. After about five minutes you can see the beautiful garden on the ISKCON Goshala (cow barn) land on the right. After another minute you pass the cows protected by ISKCON on your right.

You then walk another 400m (5 minutes) and you can first see the large red sandstone tower of the Madana-Mohan Temple. After you see this temple, Kaliya Ghata is another minute and a half (180m) away, on your right. After another two or three minutes (200m), you are next to the Madana-Mohan Temple.

You then walk another km (6/10 of a mile, 15 minutes), and you go over a small wooden bridge. You keep following the path for another 800m (half a mile, 12 minutes) and on your right is Imli Tala. There is a yellow wall around Imli Tala and you can see the Imli Tala tree through the gate of this wall. You then continue on the path for another three minutes (240m), and Sringara Vata is on your right. To get to Sringara Vata you go up some steps on your right, between a small ghata tower and a small concrete temple. If you reach the place where the path becomes thin, you just passed Sringara Vata. You then continue on the parikrama path for another six minutes (400m) and you come to the built-up red sandstone ghata area. This is the Keshi Ghata area.

After about five minutes (330m) the path makes a right and a quick left. The road then comes to another path in about 100m and you make a left and a quick right. After about a half km (1/3 mile) the path becomes a bit tricky. Some people go to the left and do not go through the town at all. Others go right and then left and pass some interesting temples including the Tekari Rani temple. There is a Jagannatha temple in this area, with beautiful Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra Deities.

You then proceed along the path with some temples and ashrams on your right and wilderness on your left. You follow the path for over a km and a half (over a mile). The road turns from hard sand to a smooth brick road. The road then turns to the right. You just follow the brick road around. When the road turns, there is also a dirt road that goes straight. About three minutes (220m) after the road turns, there is a small temple, 1.3m by 1.3m (4 by 4 feet), just off the path on the right, with a Deity of Lord Caitanya in it. This temple is said to mark the place where Lord Caitanya sat when He first came to Vrindavana.

You then continue on the path for another km (6/10 mile, 15 minutes). At this point the path becomes a little tricky. You reach a fork in the path, where one path goes straight towards Mathura and the other turns right. You take the right path. At this place there is a water pump on the left and a lamppost on the right. After another eight minutes (half a km) you come to a paved road, which you follow to the left. You then follow this road for another 2 km (1.2 miles) going over some railway tracks until you reach the Mathura-Vrindavana road. You cross this road and then go another km until you reach the end of the parikrama.

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