Hotel Temple on Ganges Varanasi

... ciudad más sagrada para los Hindúes en todo el mundo. Justo en ese momento ahí en la orilla estaban cremando dos cadáveres, se le veía la cabeza como ardía en llamas junto con otras partes del cuerpo, fue bastante impresionante. Le íbamos a sacar una foto para que vieran pero Amid me dijo que no estaba permitido sacar fotos durante las cremaciones. En los días que siguieron nos llevaron en canoa 2 veces por todo el Ganges; una a la mañana para ver cómo la gente se bañaba, se ...

At five o clock we rose from our sleep! All excited, we almost ran upstairs to the rooftop to where a small crowd had gathered- brazilian girl, two english girls, an australian girl called brook, a few ozzie lads, a nerdy american and the staff of the guesthouse! The American brought flat peices of tinted metal or glass so we could stare directly at the sun! It was beginning ...

... added to taste. The leaf is folded and pierced with a clove. And if you are so inclined, your paan can be spiked with aphrodisiacs. intoxicants, even ground pearls and covered with gold leaf or silver foil. Connoisseurs claim they can tell the special blend of each paan wallah. Most of the shops have shelves stacked with cigarette and beedi packets with Hindi music blaring from a radio. It's medicinal properities include digestive or cough-repelling powers but most people ...

... daily. The main fire stayed lighting 24 hours a day! Two charred and blackened feet poked out from one of the fires. <br>We watched as they prepared the next cremation. The body of a woman lay in wait as they piled up 3 layer of logs. They carried her to the river and poured water into her mouth and then placed her on top of the logs. They covered her in some kind of lighterfluid and piled on more logs. <br>The nextof kin ...

... We pulled up at the entrance to an alleyway, and our driver gets out, saying he can't go any further with the rickshaw-he'll show us the rest of the way on foot. We had arrived at Varanasi's Old City. This was a huge sprawl of six or more storey buildings clustered on the banks of the Ganges River and separated by tiny winding cobbled alleys. No prizes for town planning here, as it seemed each building was simply built far enough away from the other ...

... Many of India's most famous musicians, poets, philosophers, and writers resided or reside in Varanasi like the mystic poet Kabir, bansuri flute musician Hariprasad Chaurasia and shehnai master Bismillah Khan Sahib. The great Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar and vocalist Girija Devi were born in Varanasi. It's often referred to as 'the city of light', 'the city of learning' and 'the holy city of India' and according to legend was founded around 5,000 ...

... well. At the time I think most of the staff was inside.) <br><br>The other video is for one of the songs I will be making available to download on the Sonic Nomad Project website. The video is from footage I took of the amazing monkeys in Northern India. Most of it is from Dharamasala, Rishikesh, and Shimla. <br><br>The song entitled, "Monkey March" is a piece I made inspired by these ...

Hello all!<br><br>After my initial minor bout of sickness (a small battle in the scheme of things strengthening me for the war) I thought I was doing pretty nicely. But I have been struck down once again!!! Perhaps some dodgy street food or a ****** mosala iddly on the trains... I've steered well clear of chicken and was super careful with hand cleaning. etc Just beside myself - I mean what else can you do?!? Hahaha!!<br><br>Its official: The ...