Varanasi, India Travel Blogs

... 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 burning ...

A travel blog entry by tofudan
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by meandher
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by jambo
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... 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 sins ...

A travel blog entry by lraleigh
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by grahamandrach
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... !]). 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 silk ...

A travel blog entry by el_condor
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... 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 hard ...

A travel blog entry by philthy
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by jeroen
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... , 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. ...

A travel blog entry by wordsworths
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... , 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 ...

A travel blog entry by themurphys
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... '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 ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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... 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 is the ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by lucinate
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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 fortune, ...

A travel blog entry by worldofbintang
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by laurenandkris
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by sarah
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... '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 ...

A travel blog entry by tomandcharlie
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... 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. ...

A travel blog entry by eatdessertfirst
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by allisonandjeff
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... in the filth that is the Ganges. We also went back to the Ganges at sunrise to get a different perspective. From Varanasi we also visited Sarnath, a pilgrimage site for Buddhists. This is where Buddha supposedly preached his first sermon to a handful ...

A travel blog entry by heatheravan
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... inside...a little boy had been plonked onto Mark's lap. Don't bother with the goldcoast or disneyland; get an autorickshaw in varanasi if you want an adventure ride; WOW!! A live sitar and tabla duo accompanied our average dinner...said farewell to Rikard ...

A travel blog entry by mhaebich
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· 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, with ...

A travel blog entry by byrnedm
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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by twittg
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... . Ironically, the most holy spot in India is also the one where the worst sacrilege against nature is being perpetrated... India, and especially Varanasi is hard on the eyes, the ears and especially the nose. Yet, somehow, this overload contains positive ...

A travel blog entry by tavini
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... . "This is Swarmi-ji." announced Papu. I had been gazing over the Ganges which was reflecting the night time lights of Varanasi whilst availing my body of the medicinal benefits of Royal Challenge lager. The Accountant Who Could Read Palms & I headed off ...

A travel blog entry by beats
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... metres from the jumping flames of the bonfires, we were approached by a couple of young men. This was non-stop in Varanasi, and at the burning ghat, tourists were always approached by young men who claimed to volunteer at the hospice next to the ghat ...

A travel blog entry by djchurch
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... experience, it was interesting to be talking to the woman, whose marriage was not arranged but a love marriage. Yoga class in Varanasi Jesse's turn to narate again. Since we were going to be in Varinasi for 5-6 days, we figured this would be a ...

A travel blog entry by jessnel
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... It can be upsetting to watch at times but this is real life and something Hazel and I value so much. At dusk Varanasi reclaims the atmosphere of an ancient city. The crumbling frontal stonework becomes covered in a shroud of twilight, allowing the mind ...

A travel blog entry by anelegantchaos
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... of the bodies comes loose from the rocks tied to it and it bobs along the surface ... very nice. Before coming to Varanasi we visited Kanha National Park. The park was incredibly beautiful ... clean air, open meadows, forests of large trees and jungles ...

A travel blog entry by worldismycanvas
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