Sita Guest House Varanasi

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D22 /16 Chausatti Ghat Ranaghat Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 221001, +91-324061

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One more day to endure

Up early, 5am, to take a boat ride along the ghats before the masses swarm. Very easy as the stairs to the boats are right outside the hotel. Couldn't find the guy who we had had the boat ride with yesterday and had promissed to do it at 5am. Bt someone else knew about this and said that he was the stand in. We trusted him and we recognized it was teh same boat as the other guy had used and ths guy knew the timing etc. Also he looked sharp and dare I say it (relatively speaking) trust worthy....

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India jamadaia
Elephant vs Tiger

After a punishing (at least for our 30 yr old, out of shape asses) 5 day trek, we took it easy for our last two days in Darjeeling, wandering around the town and attempting to avoid teeming piles of refuse, stray dogs, motorcycles, and lascivious natives. Whoever said Darjeeling is a charming place hasn't been there in a while. It has all the chaos, noise and putrefaction of any other city in the developing world, but squeezed into the miniscule alleyways necessitated by its hilltop location....

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India kaitlinandmat

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Varanasi/Benares/Kasi- The Holy City of Shiva

... top terrace. It as raining, and all the tables that were not under the awning were very wet. The floors out there were wet as well. The hotel help was using s squeegee to "sweep" the water and mud and cow **** off the floor and over the wall to the ground below. I was talking to a nice guy named Steve from Sacramento. As we talked the help had finished sweeping the water, mud and cow **** we had all tracked up to the floor from the ghats ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India thomasgillam
Travel from Varanasi to Haridwar

... were built. In saying that, we never felt threatened and found the whole Ganges experience and religious Sadhus (the men that devout there life to the gods) very uplifting and inspiring.

As the time came to leave we had another travel agent moment. He had obviously had to put us on waiting lists and gambled that tickets in Aircon class for our train to Haridwar would free up. They didn't. I made a trip to the station to see if we could do anything ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India cawleyadventure
From one holy place to another...

Hello All,
After a long journey by car...where we had to pay a 'fine' in order to continue on our way, we arrived in Delhi, had a short rest, then boarded and overnight train to Varanasi. It was a delightful ride as we had are own little cabin. The only kind of surprising thing about the ride was the toilet that emptied directly onto the train ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India brydebsimon
The Great Celestial Show- Total Solar Eclipse

... They won't prepare or eat food during this time so many fast and the merits from the fasting are said to be magnified. A dip in the Ganges is considered even more beneficial during eclipse times when the rays from the sun are said to make the water even holier. We headed down to the ghats for a chai and to watch the Hindu fever grow to extreme heights and grow it did. The city of Lord Shiva was in full flight with an estimated 60000-70000 people gathering at the ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India inoursuitcase
Mother Ganga, Burning Bodies & Shiva Fever

... motorbikes, cows, cycle rickshaws and orange clad lads carrying staffs all streaming towards the river, it was more like a parade and we waved at everyone as they passed us by, you couldn't help but get swept up in the schemozzle (disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably) of the scene. We cruised by the fruit and vegetable market where the produce was of high quality and we scored ourselves a couple of juicy, ready to devour mangoes, tis the mango season to ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India inoursuitcase
Varanassi and the first few days in Kathmandu!

... could be agreed - apparently they can demand up to a million rupees and this process could take hours (Speaking to people at a later date it turns out the whole thing was eventually sorted out at 11pm about 14 hrs after the initial accident!!) Eventually we heard word that the husband who was in india had been informed of the tradegy and was on his way back in order to see the body and complete the compensation settlement and this would take a few hours! Realizing we weren't going to ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India mccoyryan
Varanasi

... all laughed about that one. I tried to keep a count of the close calls and near misses, but I lost count at 1,128. Finally we made it safely to the Radisson and checked in, arranging to meet the 2 guides in the evening. At dusk (around 6:30) we were picked up and taken to the Ganges for the evening ceremony. We drove thru more crazy traffic to get close to the river and then walked the rest of the way to the Ghats-which are the steps on the river's edge. Walking ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India juanitobosque
Varanasi - City of Cows

... to walk around it, with no semblance of streets or roads; simply the spaces between the buildings. These spaces were filled with people; lots of locals lived in this area, and kids ran along the alleys or played cricket in wider "courtyards". The cobblestones were covered in "muddy" water which consisted mainly of faeces, both human and animal. Buckets of water were thrown day and night, washing the muck down towards the river. The smell was horrendous ...

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India stephspeirs

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