Varanasi Hostels - Reviews and Rates

01/11/09
The first day in Varanasi after checking into my hotel and relaxing for a while, I headed to Asi ghat (Ghats are the steps which line the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi). Had a heavy lunch in a middle eastern restaurant called Haifa before catching my first glimpse of the Ganges in this area. This is more like the Ganges I had seen ...

First impressions of India were insane. After a 5 hour bus journey we made it to the Indian border at Saunali which was just a archway saying welcome to India so we just walked on through. 100 metres ahead was a so called customs desk which was just a battered old desk were they stamped our passports. We met a German guy on the bus called Chris ...

after a vry early star as we got inot Varanasi crack of dawn as that wehn the night train got in
had to get up on time to makwe sure to get off the train, 5 minsutes thats it to get oof, we were fine thoguh we managed!
kris and i then ventured towards teh ghats asfter an ordeal of just rying to gt a rickshaw man to get us theerre!!!
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Hope all is well in Caaanada. I am in INDIA! We arrived yesterday from Pokhara and it was a hell of a long trip (24h) but it went pretty smoothly. The Indian border was a joke and you litterally just walk across and could very well bypass immigration if you wanted to. Varanasi is the holiest city in India because the Ganges passes right through ...

Da wir relativ spaet dran waren, mussten wir diesmal nicht lange auf den Zug warten, sond**n war war sogar schon da. Wir hatten mal wied** die billig**e Sleep** Class gebucht und anscheinend war d** Zug ziemlich ausgebucht (wahrscheinlich wegen des anstehenden langen Wochenendes des Holi-Festes), so dass uns** **scheinen bei einigen d** schon an...

I decided to take Level one reiki here in Varanasi while I waited to be head to Delhi. A girl I met at the guesthouse also ended up doing it with me...at least for the first day yesterday. Then today she decided to leave and I felt strangely bereaved. It's the same thing anytime I meet up with someone and connect with them. I travel with them fo...

Pozdrav! Ja, iz Jodpurja sva je bila idealana povezava do Varanasija! Vlak 24 ur + 2 uri zamude. Ampak sva se imala kar fino. No, vsaj jaz. Uspelo mi je prebrat drugo knjigo v anglescini v zivljenju, in sicer eno iz zbirke Paula Coelhoja. En prevod v Indijsko anglescino, ki je hvalabogu tako enostavna, da sploh nisem imela tezav. :) Tomaz se je...

A final note on Varanasi: Apparently most Indian families make a pilgrimage to the Ganges once a year, and when they leave they always take a vial of the water with them to display somewhere in their homes--the water is supposed to bring good luck and good health to the household. The day after the candle ceremony, I took a boat ride up the rive...

So far so good - I am really enjoying India. Such a complete full on attack of all of your senses! Smells vary from exotic beautiful spices, scanky rubbish on the floor, musty sweat from pretty much everyone (in this heat) including me! The sights are such contrasts. In the North (especially Rajasthan)the areas have been very barren. Yet the peo...

AS FOGUEIRAS NO RIO SAGRADO As fogueiras que ardem nas margens do Ganges consomem cadaveres, reduzidos a cinzas em tres horas de fogo intenso. Em varanasi, os hindus que sucumbem sao cremados, e suas cinzas e ossos sao lancados ao fluxo do rio que desce de Brahma, o criador. Os fieis acreditam que o fogo os levara' aos ceus, e que a cremacao e' ...