Hotel India Varanasi
59 Patel Nagar, Cantonment Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221 002, India
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Varanasi
Deceased bodies are burned by the Ganges river. And just next to them people bathe in the holy water. I stand high above in a restaurant overlooking them and breathing in the smoke of dead people. How freaky. "god is the only truth" they yell carrying the body into the water before burning it. Dead cows also float down the river. I stood here, …
Varanasi
Watched the sun rise on the ganges river. People bathing and washing their clothes. Dead bodies once again floating by us. Drove a tuk tuk in the chaos of Varanasi. Clutch in the left hand with 4 grip gears. Short but fun while it lasted. I just didn't honk as much as the normal driver. Visited Sarnath, one of the four holy places associated with …
My big fat indian weddings
A lot of terrible things happened to me in india since my last entry, but I somehow scraped through unharmed to tell the tales.
(sorry its so long)
From Udaipur we went to Pushkar, a small desert town where i have few fond memories. I was riding high in metaphor and even more so on my bumpy 9 year old camel. When we arrived at the …
A tale of Two Hotels
After a surprisingly restful night we arrive bright and early at Varanasi. Well bright may be overstating the case but it is 5am so it is most definitely early!!!!! We negotiate a tuk tuk and turn up at our hotel, only to be met by Mr Grumpy. We ask for a room, he says it is early - we say we know and this reservation was made some time ago, and …
A Wedding Jam
We wake fairly late and enjoy breakfast before making our plans. We originally intended to walk from Raj Ghat which is at one end, down to Assi ghat at the other end, however it didn't quite work out like that!! Firstly it appears although Raj Ghat is quite close to a train station the tuk tuk driver convinced us it was not a straightforward …



