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Varanasi Slideshow
Top Hotels in Varanasi
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The Gateway Hotel Ganges Varanasi
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Ramada Plaza JHV Varanasi
108 reviews
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Radisson Varanasi
253 reviews
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Hotel Clarks Varanasi
92 reviews -
Hindustan International Varanasi
84 reviews -
Hotel India Varanasi
46 reviews -
Hotel Meraden Grand Varanasi
51 reviews
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Hotel Ok International Varanasi
18 reviews -
Hotel Hindusthan International Varanasi
84 reviews
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Hotel Vaibhav Varanasi
36 reviews
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Pradeep Varanasi
27 reviews
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Hotel Ideal Tower Varanasi
67 reviews
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Palace on Steps Varanasi
105 reviews
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Pallavi International Hotel Varanasi
33 reviews
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Hotel Surya Varanasi
103 reviews
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Gautam Hotel Varanasi
6 reviews
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Diamond Hotel Varanasi
20 reviews
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Hotel Temple on Ganges Varanasi
30 reviews
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Jaipurai Hotel Varanasi
1 review
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Ganga View Guesthouse Varanasi
7 reviews
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Jyoti Hotel Varanasi
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Ganges View Varanasi
104 reviews
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Hotel Varanasi Ashok
6 reviews
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Malti Hotel Varanasi
3 reviews
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Palace on Ganges Varanasi
116 reviews
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Nar Indra Hotel Varanasi
1 review
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Hotel Alka Varanasi
155 reviews
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Ajay Hotel Varanasi
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Atithi Sagar Hotel Varanasi
1 review
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Hotel De Paris Varanasi
4 reviews
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Lara India Hotel Varanasi
6 reviews
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Hotel Haifa & Restaurant Varanasi
52 reviews
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Mansarovar Hotel Varanasi
2 reviews
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Plaza Inn Hotel Varanasi
5 reviews
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The Golden Buddha Varanasi
7 reviews
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Shiv Ganga Resort Varanasi
1 review
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Hotel Divya Varanasi
27 reviews
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Chaitanya Guest House Varanasi
4 reviews
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Hotel Padmini International Varanasi
3 reviews
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Hotel Buddha Varanasi
29 reviews
Varanasi
Travel Blogs from Varanasi, India
The eyes have it
This is a top pick! ... pile of neatly stacked logs awaiting ignition. A stack, roughly coffin-sized in length, and twice as deep. Manikarnika is Varanasi’s primary crematorium, 2km downstream from the smaller Harishchandra Ghat. The 50m x 50m area has an under-sung air ...
Jhansi to Varanasi
This is a top pick! Varanasi 12th June The train from Jhansi to Varanassi in Uttar Pradesh was our first experience of travelling on the worlds largest train network. After an hour and a half's wait on the platform in 40 degree heat (10pm) we were more than ready for the ...
"You want a holy haircut?"
This is a top pick! ... in this sacred city"! Where else could you get that? During my last visit four years ago, Varanasi was the first place I went to in India. Being a novice at traveling in the developing world, I found it completely overwhelming. The oppressive summer ...
Burning ghats to burning gastric pain
This is a top pick! Both of our India videos are now uploaded! See the Contents Page (entry #1) for all the videos. Varanasi is one of India's holiest cities and through it flows the Ganga River, the holiest river in the country. Hindus believe that dying here ...
Fires of the Ganges
This is a top pick! ... man's daughter had checked the ticket and he realised he was wrong, they all sat down very quietly. Day 1 On arrival in Varanasi, the station was packed and we were immediately picked out as fresh meat by the rickshaw wallahs. It was like flies ...
The Holy Ganges, moving, disturbing and alarming!
This is a top pick! ... sellers etc ever since. Anyway, we got on a bus to Gorakpur, arriving at 8pm, then a train at midnight and arrived in Varanasi, exhausted at 4.30am. What does one do at such a time? Well, leave your bag at the station and go sightseeing of course. By 6am ...
From Bodhgaya to Varanasi
This is a top pick! ... in the river. Aside from exploring the riverside, Sarah and I did not do that much sightseeing. With most buildings in Varanasi's cramped alleyways (crmaped because tey are small and packed with people, cows, goats, motorcycles, etc.) it would be ...
Varanasi, city of the dead, Khajuraho and Orchha
This is a top pick! ... practice of women throwing themselves on the funeral pyres which has lead to much problems in India, even recently. The relatives carry the strecher through Varanasi's narrow streets (and right under my guesthouse window) to the burning ghat, shouting ...
The Holy Ganges
This is a top pick! ... the Ganges lies the sacred city of Kashi, the Luminous, known as the City of 1,000 Temples, the Holy City of India, and known as Varanasi. The focal point in Varanasi is water as a sacred force in the processes of the world. Bathers wash away their ...
Filth and Fascination
This is a top pick! ... , and the best Japanese food ever! (note to self; go to Japan) Despite all the sarcasm, Varanasi was one of my favorite places in northern India. You just have to see, hear, smell, and even feel this place! This, in ...
Varanasi and Mother Ganga
This is a top pick! ... !]). Back from the ghats, towards first the old city of Godaulia, then onwards to the Cantonment and wider Varanasi, it is chaos - just utterly crazy, as only India can be. You cannot walk a foot without either being offered a rickshaw or invited to a ...
The Holy Ganges
This is a top pick! ... varied religions and spiritualities, it seems appropriate to be spending my final three days in its holiest pilgramage site. The city of Varanasi, on the banks of the holy River Ganga, or Ganges, has been recognised as a special place by the Buddha and ...
Squits, ghats and mild concussion
This is a top pick! ... , human poo and millions of flies. Everything seems to have diarrhoah and it stinks. Apart from that though we absolutely loved Varanasi. The river Ganges apart from being very holy in the hindu religion is also the centre of alot of peoples existence. ...
Bus-ted
This is a top pick! ... 'a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature' - Yann Martel, Life of Pie Toil We're finally in Varanasi, India. Getting here wasn't hard, it just took time. Lots of time. We've spent the last two days on busses and to ...
An unbridled mess
This is a top pick! ... older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together' - Mark Twain, commenting on Varanasi India - Quick Facts Before I get to Varanasi proper, how about a few quick facts about India (bear with me). It ...
Varanasi - Too much for words
This is a top pick! ... , smiley, talkative.. etc etc.. like all our past places so this is a much nicer place to have a final goodbye to India in. As to Varanasi..... sorry but its too exhausting to even try and describe what it is like.... Ive tried in my head and its not ...
Holy City Zoo
This is a top pick! Our last few days in India.. last minute flights to Varanasi as we were running short of time (no honestly, we really wanted to take that 40 hour bus....) What can we say about the place???... arrived at the airport, taxis asking a small Indian ...
Holy Ganga Batman
This is a top pick! We are now in Varanasi, which I must say is without doubt the most impressive city I have ever been to. If you want to see the circle of life, come to this town. Small children play cricket on the Ghats next to the burning bodies of those who wish to be ...
Messing about on the river!
This is a top pick! ... 't take a picture but we're going on a hunt for her today! Also last night Tom was run over by a cycle-rickshaw! VARANASI TOP 5 PLAYLIST: 1). Take me to the river - Al Green. 2). Dead in the Water - David Gray 3). Fire - Crazy World of ...
Hitting the holy hotspots...
This is a top pick! ... website. Bodhgaya was cold and foggy every day, so we decided to push on to Varanasi, the holiest city in India for Hindus. Varanasi is known amongst travellers mainly for the prevalence of cremations at the burning ghats, where the dead are first ...
Varanasi, a quickie
This is a top pick! ... about 5.30) no-one was feeling too sunny but in the end some guy got her to move some of it. Bloody nightmare! In Varanasi we walked up and down for ages trying to find somewhere decent to stay and finally got somewhere next door to where we stayed ...
the weight of wood
This is a top pick! ... sense of having been here and gone through this before. given the difficulties of getting a dead body across the vastness of india to varanasi in a timely manner, many of the devout come to hostels for the near dead and dying built right behind the ...
Man these roads are crap
This is a top pick! ... end of this bumpy ride. After much mumbling and we think swearing we finally found the turn off and made it to Varanasi. The roads in India are not very well maintained. You normally drive on them at around 40km/hr and it takes ages to get anywhere. ...
The Ganges
This is a top pick! Varanasi. The holiest city in India. That is where we were headed on the train. Unfortunately, as is the case so often here, the trains were delayed and a scheduled 10 hour train ride turned into a 16 hour marathon. But nevertheless, we made it to ...
A 'special' train
This is a top pick! · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India · GMT +5:30hrs 'Travelling across India by rail is likely to yield some of the most memorable moments of your trip. Open around the clock, the stations themselves are often great places to watch the world go by, ...
Hindu Holy Sites Tour
This is a top pick! ... women, snake-bite victims, small pox victims and (if we remember right) those dying of any high fever. Very interesting.... From Varanasi we took our last Indian train ride to the city of Calcutta, where we would catch our plane to Bangkok. It was ...
Holy Cow! - - (India)
This is a top pick! ... the conductor found me a spot...and I didn't even have to bribe him! I woke up around 8am thinking we'd be arriving in Varanasi soon (book said 8-9:30am). I kept waiting and waiting... We didn't arrive 'til past 1pm. Oy! Varanasi is a holy city on the ...
Vivacious Varanasi
This is a top pick! ... few square metres... went at the same time the second night, but not nearly as much going on.... One of the joys of varanasi is watching a monkey fight; seeing multiple combatants spring over the 5 m wide strip of blue sky above the alley, scrambelling ...
Varanasi - The Holy City
This is a top pick! ... we had to go up. We walked up a narrow alley, dodging various forms of excrement and urine (the old part of Varanasi consists of a network of narrow alleyways. They are beautiful an awe-inspiring, however, they are also littered with cow, ...
The Accountant who could read palms
This is a top pick! ... I have ever met before!" enthused James as we sat on a second floor balcony overlooking the River Ganges and the town of Varanasi, "He's only here for a short while, on a short term assignment working as an accountant!" The Accountant Who Could Read Palms ...