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Padayatra means "walking festival". In India devotees of Krishna perform various padayatras in holy places at festival times. Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON wanted to go on padayatra with a cart pulled by bulls to travel to the holy tirthas and recover his health in 1977. This did not happen but in 1986 ISKCON established a program to perform Padayatra all over the world to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
As a part of the Prabhuapda Centennial celebrations in 1996 the ISKCON GBC decided in 1994 to start the World Padayatra program. Padayatra is a Sanskrit word meaning Walking Festival. All the great acharyas of the past went on Padayatra in India. Even Mahatma Gandi, the famous saint among politicians organized padayatras. So as part of the Prabhuapda Centennial celebrateions ISKCON decided to make the Padayatra festival world-wide and the endeavour was to perform Padayatra in 108 countries. T
Lokananta Maharaja was the devotee Srila Prabhupada instructed to perform padayatra and in this video he explains the purpose and benefits of padayatra the plans to make padayatra a worldwide festival.
A short video summarizing the New Zealand Padayatra with music Manah Siksha produced
Australian devotees perform padayatra festival around the country with Lokanatha Swam
A documentary of the Padayatra performed by the Hare Krishna devotees in New Zealand
Lokanatha Swami and the ISKCON Sydney devotees and the Australian Padayatra devotees
Documentary by Vasudev Das on the ISKCON Indian Padayatra
Mukunda Goswami introduces Padyatra India. This is a video made in the very beginning
