Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar
Mughalsarai, officially known as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar, is a city and a municipal board in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh.
Located around 16 kilometres from Chandauli town, the district headquarters, it is an important railway junction.
Getting to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar
Varanasi is well connected by plane, train, and bus. Varanasi is mostly on the west bank of the Ganges. The
- 01Malviya Bridge on the north
- 02Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport
- 03Banaras
Worth seeing
Varanasi is not a city with distinct tourist destinations; the experience is in watching the spectacle of life and death on the river and meandering through the alleys of the old city.
Things to do
Bathe in the Ganges - Over 60,000 people come to the ghats every day to take a dip in the sacred waters of the Ganga, most notably at sunrise. This is a fantastic sight to see. However, with sunken corpses and cremation, there is a risk of infection from numerous diseases such as hepatitis and bacteria such as e-coli. Therefore it is recommended you bathe further upstream such as around Rishikesh.
Where to eat
Banarasi Khana, or local delicacies, are known for their flavours. Many dishes here are flavoured with asafoetida, ginger, bay leaves, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, and/or dried fenugreek leaves. Benares Dum Aloo is different from the dum aloo cooked elsewhere in India because the potatoes are stuffed with and cooked in gravy that includes jaggery, fennel, and chilli paste.
Getting around Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar the local way
- Get inLocal bus No107E departs from near Varanasi Cantt train station (coordinates: 25°19.74981'N, 82°59.36062'E), and costs ₹25 (2023) to Sarnath The town is easily reached by taxi or auto rickshaw from Varanasi.
- Get inYou can negotiate a better rate with an autorickshaw driver, outside the station.
- Get inIf you have tons of luggage though, go with the taxi -- it won't fit in the rickshaw.
From Wikivoyage: Sarnath, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Smeet Chowdhury (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.