Varanasi Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

We took a night train from Agra and we had the experience of sharing a sleeper open compartment with 4 other passengers, all of them Indian middle-class people. Somehow we slept very well, despite the train constantly stopping and trudging along on noisy tracks. We avoided the tout barrage in Varanasi the next midday and got to our hotel, which ...

"Varanasi is an incredible place" "It's like nowhere else in India; the best and worst of the country all at once" "There's something special in the air - I spent a whole month there" "I travel 9 months of every year, but always end my trips in Varanasi" Perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world with a recorded history dating b...

I love this place, and I am so enlivened and saddened by it, this city of God and death. Perhaps not leaving is the way to not be sad- I can actually see that, in a weird way. I could not be sad for the kids at the bakery because I cold see their wide-eyed dreams being replaced by love, family: Satisfaction. I could make sure that sweet little b...

Om Namah Shivaya friends. It has been a few days. I have missed entries due to my ashram stay and travelling. I will try to fill you in, but it is quite immpossibe to communicate. Here goes: September 11th: {This is the day Baba Neem Karoli left his physical body} The early half of the day we (Mike,Randall, and I) visited KK an India devotee of ...

Well. We've made it to India (about to head into Nepal) and what a few weeks we've had!. I met some family, saw some awesome sights and was scared out of my horns a few times. Uncle Kenny & Auntie Jo are looking after me OK but can be a bit cruel sometimes; they tease me and put me into difficult situations just for fun - Kenny even tried to...

The flight from Kathmandu to Varanasi was quick and easy, comparable to Southwest Airlines back home. We were welcomed by a sign that read "Welcome to the Holy City" and our taxi was an old car from the 1950s complete with radio and A/C. We arrived at a central 3 star hotel where the guesthouse owner said he would come to look for us. More A/C, ...

Varanasi, one of India's most holy cities, through which Mother Ganges, its most polluted river runs. We're based south of the hundred or so ghats (steps), some of which are used for prayer and bathing, some for cremations. It is an auspicious place to die. We are warned not to follow 'friendly' strangers for tours in the government's electric c...

Arriving in Nepal the current problems of the current political system became apparent. Multiple road blocks had been put in place by Maoist rebels for the first stretch of road from the border to Kathmandu. Their targets are not tourists and so we could pass freely but it meant changes of vehicles and a good bit of hiking. Eventually we arrived...

Once again I hauled my sorry **** from my comfy, warm bed before sunrise, padding through the fog filled streets to meet up with Howard and Rhys, the two Australians, for a sunrise baot trip. We spent two hours out on the water, and due to the fog, barely saw a thing. It was very Sherlock Holmes! In fact the fog didn't lift til nearer 1030 so it...

O Boto do Rio Ganges O Ganges e' o rio sagrado da India. Os hindus acreditam que suas aguas descem diretamente dos ceus, por obra constante do deus Brahma, criador do universo. Isso nao e' totalmente falso, as aguas do Ganges provem do degelo das altas montanhas da cordilheira do Himalaia. O rio nasce nas incriveis altitudes geladas do Tibet, at...