Maratika Tour - A tour to experience different.

Maratika Tour is a Buddhist pilgrimage tour. Maratika cave is situated in the eastern part of Nepal namely in Khotang district. In and around the Maratika cave, there are other caves around and all of them are quite sacred, holly and blessed by the enlightened personalities like guru Padmashambhava, Amitayush Buddha and Abhilokiteshwor.
Since Banepa Bardibas road connection makes great accessible to khotang, it is now quite easy to travel by road from Kathmandu to maratika. It is even easy now since the motor- able bridge has been built in the jayaramghat above the Koshi River.
Maratika cave history and/or maratika cave biography goes this way from the spiritual point of view according to Buddhism:- maratika Cave and maratika monastery (Maratika is also known Haleshi ) are located in Khotang District in Nepal, circa 185 km south west of Mount Everest. It is a very sacred site of pilgrimage associated with Mandarava, Padmasambhava and longevity. Mandarava and Padmasambhava realised a number of terma that had been elementally encoded as terma in Maratika Cave by Dakini Sangwa Yeshe, terma that number among the longevity teachings of Buddha Amitabha and given to Bodhisattva Avalokiteswara. At Maratika Cave, Mandarava and Padmasambhava attained the Vidyadhara of longevity or long life. That is why it is believed that visiting to Maratika cave grants long life to the visitors.
Distance from Kathmandu to halesi mahadev or Maatika Cave is 260 kilo meter and it takes around 10 hours and need to hire a 4WD jeep since 30 kilometers road is not that good from jayaramghat. Kathmandu to halesi by road used to be difficult at the past but not anymore now.
Maratika Cave Tour for long life can be done in 5 days but if you want to make your tour a bit longer and want to visit other sacred Buddhist places in Nepal then you can join a tour called Maratika Namobuddha Lumbini Tour which allows to visit other famous Buddhist places including the birth palce of lord Buddha organized by Nepal tours.
Example outline itinerary of Maratika Tour.
Day 1, Arrive in Nepal and transfer to Hotel.
Day 2, Drive with 4WD jeep to Maratika 10 hours/260 kilometers.
Day 3, Puja, sighseeing and meditation in Maratika and other caves.
Day 4, Maratika to Kathmandu by the same Jeep.
Day 5, Departure.