Country, state and city Present day organisers Dates Duration (in decreasing order) Number of kms walked Oxcart 2 CONTINUOUS PADAYATRAS 1- All-India padayatra Acarya Dasa ( leader since Sept 2009) Sept 1984 till …. 32 years and still walking around 87,000 YES 2– Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states (India) Visnuswami Dasa End of 2012 to end of […]
By Bhakti Carudesna Swami A party of 50 devotees assembled at the ISKCON Lomé temple On December 17th 2016, ISKCON devotees of Lomé, a small town in a small country (Togo has about 6 million people), held a small but ecstatic padayatra for the pleasure of Srila Prabhupada. Several devotees from three other West […]
By Panchatattva Dasa The Harinam Team of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda Mandir held two padayatras this year. One padayatra was held earlier this year from April 15th to April 17th. The padayatris walked from Nouvelle France to Rose-Bell, then to Plain Magnien and at last to Mahebourg, covering a total of 23 kilometres. One evening […]
By Gaurangi Dasi A low-key approach in the International City of Gastronomy Due to the particular situation of the few Hare Krishna devotees in Dijon, a beautiful city of 152 000 people in the East of France, we decided to have a short low-key padayatra on Saturday November 12th . One reason was to […]
By Chandrabhaga Dasi Padayatra Iceland was a joint event largely made possible by the efforts of Bhakta Pavel, who had initially traveled to Iceland’s main town of Reykjavik last year on a book distribution mission. Happy with the success of his undertaking, he planned another visit for the summer of 2016 both to the city […]
By Dayalu Radha Dasi On Saturday July 23rd, only one week after a 3 day padayatra in the island of La Reunion, another group of devotees headed by Rama Gopal Dasa and his wife Radhika Dasi organised another padayatra in honour of ISKCON’s 50th anniversary. This one took place in the city of Saint Paul […]
By Sundar Gopal Dasa From the 1st to the 5th August, a team of French devotees, headed by Devarshi Dasa and myself organized a padayatra around the New Mayapur farm in honor of ISKCON’s 50th anniversary celebration. The theme of our padayatra was ‘Walk for Peace’. The first four days a group of about 20 […]
By Narasimha Tirtha Dasa La Reunion Island is located southwest of Mauritius and forms part of a region of France. The La Reunion padayatra lasted a total of three days and traveled through the towns of Saint Pierre and Saint Louis located in the southern part of the island. The organizers were myself, Narasimha Tirtha […]
Date: July 24th, 2016 As you’ll see below the pledge of the Padayatra Worldwide Ministry to organise at least 50 padayatras before the end of 2016 in order to celebrate ISKCON’s fiftieth birthday will be fulfilled very soon. Padayatras on the road all year long: 2 1- Padayatra India: on the road […]
The ‘UK Padayatra’ took place on May 30th and ended on June 3rd 2016. Padayatris made their way from Hastings to Brighton via Eastbourne travelling a sum total of just under 40 miles. The padayatris walked over a period of 5 days and averaged about 8 miles a day. We will feature a series of articles […]