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Varanasi Slideshow
Varanasi
Travel Blogs from Varanasi, India
Varanasi
... and ready to battle the aggressive touts and rickshaw drivers. Luckily we found a cool place to stay in Shivala Ghat. Varanasi is an extremely spiritual city. It's considered to be the closest place to heaven on earth to the Hindu's and is ...
Varanasi
... up in their sister hotel around the corner which was cheaper and not as nice... but at least we had somewhere to stay. Varanasi is a very Holy Hindu city but we've seen some things here which have really had an impact on us. The poverty here ...
Voluminous Varanasi Vomitting
... into Varansasi at sixish, they were all, without exception, clutching their stomachs and appeared in need of a sturdy toilet. Varanasi was mayhem. People, cars, rickshaws, cows, manure etc everywhere. Not what I needed, particularly as I was starting ...
Indiaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
... at the beginning. Actually, people had warned me. Varanasi is a holly city that is a concentration of everything that make India. Everybody agreed on the fact that Varanasi is a good place to end a trip in India, but not to start it. But the fight against ...
Travelling Bacon
Did a pot of retail therapy in the morning and then hurried out to catch my night train to Jaipur where I was to meet ...
Day 33 - 36 : Varanasi and the Ghats
... but just picture hundreds of monkeys in and around the temple which are looked after by the people there), Vishwanath temple in the Varanasi University campus and finally the Golden temple in the Old town. After this I headed to Manikarnika. This is also ...
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone! I will be celebrating the new year in Varanasi, on the banks of the holy Ganga, being thankful that I am not one of the corpses being carried through the streets to the chant of "Ram Ram Shanti Hey" (Rama (god) is peace) and ...
The Magic Bubble
... our benefit. Returning to The Bubble, we sat down to enjoy an evening of relaxation, watching the ever impressive sunset over Varanasi. Equally impressive was the rise of the moon over the Ganges, which was a bright (almost startling) red colour. ...
Varanasi
... both a kickback; worth it for the amusement! The musical performances were both excellent. The first santoor and tabla and the second a Kathak dance performance with awesome musical accompaniment. A very cultural way to end our ...
Varanasi
... booking office to open. The Rough Guide had advised us not to attempt getting a rickshaw from the station itself, as Varanasi is rife with touts who will over-charge and take you to the wrong hotel, and be generally unpleasant and aggressive. ...
River Ganges. I wouldn't exactly call it bathing
... , which I tend to agree with! ***************************************** Update - March 2008 **************************************** Varanasi is one of the holiest cities in India. Seeing the worshipers bathe in the river and bodies being cremated at ...
Well we lost the cricket we took a beating ...
... his hotel room the whole time we were there, apart from breakfast on the first day. Damn. Anyway, now we have arrived in Varanasi. I managed to catch a particularly nasty chest infection on the train ride up (34 hours!) and by the time we got here was ...
Varanasi
... , but Varanasi is the place that has it all, twenty times over. No, thousand years over. In Varanasi we found all that seems infamous in India and all that is inextricably connected with what makes it fascinating and beautiful. It is the most vulgar, ...
Varanasi
... , we did the standard 'city tour' where our guide DJ, took us to numerous temples, and then for a wander around the streets of Varanasi (still known as Benares to a number of the old timers living there). Even DJ had more about him than your usual ...
Cow Pies and Train Rides
... on the final arrival time. Or, as a local would bobble his head and say: It’s "just on time." My final thought on Varanasi: For a city so entirely consumed by religion, which is at the core of every one of its citizens, I’ve never seen a place ...
Beyond words....
... had backup power. By this point we didnt mind being victims of any scheme - we just wanted a clean, safe room. Exploring Varanasi was quite an experience - here's a bit of background from the lonely planet)"apparently there's no better way to hedge ...
India's Holiest City
Friday 10th September We had a fourteen hour train journey from Haridwar to Varanasi. I think that is the longest yet. But I slept for most of it, so it didn't seem too long. I’d got used to a cooler and manageable 26 degrees up in the north and it ...
Delhi to Varanasi, India's holiest city
We arrived in Varanasi yesterday - a leg of our visit to India which I was particularly looking forward to - by way of our first overnight train journey. On our last day in Delhi we visited some impressive emporiums before heading over to the ...
Varanasi - Rhinos and Sunrises
... tiny and teh chips were cold!!! LOL!!! (Theres a pic but I cant upload it. Yesterday then we crosswed over into India and drove for 12 hours to Varanasi. There are just so many people here its just mad. Even in this state alone theres 150 ...
Varanasi
... packsafe's on both bags. Tom didnt sleep much as he lay watching anyone who came into our compartment. We finally arrived in Varanasi where we are now and thankfully had no problems with our bags. Here we had also booked our hotel in advance and ...
Varanasi -- The Holy City
We arrived in Varanasi, one of the holiest cities of India, after a 36 hour train journey from Rishikesh. Exhausted, we ate and crashed until the next morning, when we emerged into Varanasi and wandered about its ridiculously picturesque Indian alleys, ...
Varanasi
... and that being cremated in Varanasi and having their ashes placed in the Ganges will free them from the cycle of reincarnation. Varanasi is intense and full of life and death. The first day we saw several funeral processions. For cremation, a family ...
The dirtiest city yet...oh, and the ganges..!
... so far to not cook on gas (only camp fires – which are very dirty and time consuming!). Now, India is generally dirty, smelly, polluted and congested…and Varanasi was by far the worst that we had seen. After a really long and hot drive day we ...
Dogs on cows... usual stuff...
... it was a Krait as it was black/ dark in colour. A nightime hunter which is responsible for thousands of deaths each year in india. They hang around housing/ building and urban areas chasing rats and mice that are there after scraps of food in rubbish. no ...
Le Gange à Varanasi
... espion, l'apareil en bandoulière et la télécommande dans la poche (d'où la qualité médiocre des photos). Pour conclure, Varanasi ne m'a pas tant emballé que ca. C'est une ville qui garde un charme et une aura mystique mais qu'il faut aller ...
Ghats and Guesthouses
Hello hello hello, and greetings from Varanasi! Brownie and I finally arrived here yesterday, after a VERY early flight from Chennai, which actually went via Delhi before it got here. We were delayed by about an hour and a half in the air around Delhi ...
Beginning India
Hello again, We are in India and have now been in Varanasi for a couple of days. India is quite an experience - but I'm not sure who is more of an attraction them to us or us to them. The expressions on people's faces as we drive through towns in the ...
Ganga, Shiva, and Buddah
... fierce form of Parvati. Shiva is the god of destruction and is married to Parvati. Shiva is the god who is worshipped in Varanasi. Parvati is Shiva's wife. Ganesha is the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati. He has four arms and a mouse to ...