Faran Hotel Varanasi

D 50/129, Nai Sarak Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221001, India

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The stunnung Taj and chaotic Varanassi

A travel blog entry by heinz82

Agra

So the next stop is Agra to see the world renowned Taj Mahal and it did not disappoint. The Taj is a stunning piece of workmanship that took over 20 years to build and I think the story behind it makes it a little bit more special. Shah Jahan built it to express his love for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal who bore 14 children for him. The Taj is a beautiful creamy colour made of huge pieces of marble and sandstone. Elle, Jo, Jessie ...

I stayed at the Varanasi P.O.S.

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

11

... the room #. I was in room #2. It was nicer that what the symbolism would suggest. Actually it had all the things that I require from a room:

  • Clean
  • Comfortable bed
  • Hot water (scalding hot in this case)
  • Western toilet
  • Wifi internet (that actually reached my room and was faster that most of the internet I’ve paid for)
  • A light
…and nothing ...

Vara … Vara … Varanasi

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

18

... headed off for our final walk along the Ghats, leaving around 3pm so we could be enjoy the sunset ceremonies and then be back just before the darkness fell.


Before reaching the ghats we saw so many typical examples of Indian life – all in one street. There were families drying cow pats on walls for use as fire fuel. Boys burning piles of rubbish at the side on the road.

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Oh the Noise

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

14

... making Varanasi the beating heart of the Hindu universe and the gateway to a Nirvana of sorts.


Historically Varanasi was also famous for being a centre of industry, its muslin and silk fabrics, perfumes, ivory works, and sculpture bringing many crafts people and vendors to the area (by the look of it too many). Putting this all together we had one of the busiest trading places in India, no road infrastructure, filled to ...

Attack of the Tout

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

5

... exactly where the hotel was and that he would take us straight there, he was after all our ‘friend’.


Annabelle then had the brain wave of getting the driver to pull over so that we could pull our luggage labels off our big bags, now at least we had the address of the hotel we were heading to hoping that if we got stuck we would be able to ask someone and try to find our way. The situation was very awkward indeed.

Then the ...

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