A week-long bus tour includes Kurmaksetra (Srikakulam), Simhachalam, Kovvur (Godavari), Vijayawada (Pana Nrisinghadev and Laksmi Nrisinghadev temples), Srisailam, Ahobilam (Temple of Nava-Nrisingha), and Tirupati.

His Divine Grace spends some time with the devotees from Bokaro. Below is a group photo with them:

Arati Devi Dasi is attending to the book table service.

Setting for the South India tour.

Devotees travel comfortably and peacefully in the buses.

At Sri Kurmaksetra. Here, Lord Vishnu appears in His tortoise form to save the earth from and aid the churning of the ocean, "O Hari! O Kesava! O Lord of the universe! You have assumed the form of a tortoise! All glory to You! You upheld Mount Mandara upon Your giant back and thereafter became beautified by the circular scar it left." (Sri Dasavatara Stotram)

Sri Sveta Puskarini, near Sri Kurmadev's temple: formed by the Sudarshan chakra of Lord Vishnu, it is believed that every year Ganga Devi comes from Kashi to bathe in this pond to cleanse herself from all the sins of people bathing in her waters in Kashi.

A small temple marking the place that Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu visited. It is at this place that Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu cures the famous brahman Vasudev. His Divine Grace says, "When Mahaprabhu went to South India, he met there one Vasudev Vipra who had leprosy—his whole body was rotten and insects were eating it, falling out of the sores on his hands, legs, etc. one by one. Vasudev Vipra thought, 'My body is nothing. One day it will be burnt and destroyed, what am I to do with it? If these insects are happy to eat it, what is my problem?' So, he would take the insects fallen from the sores and put them back into his body. You must realise how much tolerance he has."

In the meantime, devotees prepare sumptuous bhog and get the prasadam ready for all the devotees to honour.

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