Hotel Varanasi Ashok

... tipo que era muy agradable, y culminó con una sesión de risa que según su filosofía, liberaba una sustancia en el cerebro que hasta era capaz de curar el cáncer. <br><br> También fuimos a un Ashram Musical en donde nos dieron un concierto privado espectacular con citaras, flautas y unos tamborcitos raros que se tocan con los dedos. Ahí compramos un CD increíble de música india que se los vamos a hacer escuchar. Y para el que quiera comprar una citara, ya tenemos el contacto de un ...

... we checked into a place. <br> Wednesday 7th October. We arrived in Varanasi at around 1.30pm and headed straight to the tourist office where the helpful man gave us a map and advised on prices for rickshaws and where the guesthouses were. Off we trotted out of the station to get a rickshaw and a man plonked in beside the driver to &#8220;show&#8221; us the way and obviously get a commission on a hotel we chose. Seething I was grumpy and it showed - I am having a hard time ...

... The city plunged in to darkness! A huge cheer rose from below us by the ganges! We couldnt help but cheer along! It was utterly amazing!! The darkness lasted for about three minutes! Ive never seen anything so overwhelming! I loved it! As you'll see when you see my dementedly excited face in the photos! Will post from better internet cafe! <br>Love you all!<br>Lucyxxx <br>

... freaks, in fact ther's a couple of freaks living in our basement. This rain later gave way to a clear, star-filled night.<br><br>The next morning at 5am we hired a little wooden boat and driver to row us around the Ganges to view the early morning puja and cremation ceremonies at the ghats. The banks of the river where once again a hive of activity, buzzing and filled with pilgrims doing their rituals and locals washing and collecting the Ganges water. We saw goats being ...

... ornate poles with buckets at either end to fill in the river. <br>We hire a small wooden boat and the man rowing told us the history of the river and the burning ghats and pointed out various palaces and temples. Suddenly the rain beat down and huge bolts of pink lightning split the sky into pieces. Thunder roared overhead. We took shelter under one of the ghats and watched the storm. Then we climbed onto someone rickety ...

... there were flies everywhere. Cows roamed these alleys freely, fed by locals and generally given right of way. A sacred animal to Hindus, we became accustomed to seeing cows almost anywhere and just about everywhere; railway tracks, freeways, markets, shops, train stations, roundabouts. <br><br>This first taste of India was, to say the least, overwhelming. We checked in to our hotel and promptly fell fast asleep, exhausted from our nearly 24 hours of travel ...

... I've missed!<br><br> <br><br> Arriving in Sarnath our first stop was a visit to the Archeological Museum of Sarnath which houses many interesting Buddhist relics and manuscripts though its most famous exhibit, and one that dominates the main hall of the museum, is the 'Lion Capital of Asoka', a sculpture of four back-to-back standing lions, an image that is the National Emblem of India while the Asoka Chakra at its base is the center image of the ...

... very first beats to come from this gift. The woman singing was from a cd of an old Indian folk record, from maybe around the 60's. I picked it up at some random stand and have since lost it. If any Indians or anyone else might know who it is or what song it's from let me know. <br><br>To download "Monkey March" in high quality 320kbps mp3 format and to make a donation to Lok Samiti go to ...

... and we couldn;y see the sun cos it was pretty cloudy/ pollutiony!! Very pleasant! One of the ghats is for burning people and when we visited one of the english guys we weerre with said that we were getting covered in mdead people's smoke... Yuck! No privacy in death though and we were just pottering about as usual.<br><br>Everyone swims and bathes in the Ganges cos the water is so holy that it is totally pure! But we saw 2 dead cows, a ...

... devoted to the monkey-faced god Hanuman which was overrun with acrobatic monkeys. Next to another burning ghat we saw two dilapidated and windowless buildings, several storeys high, where we were told the sick came to die. Looking up at them on this miserable day in the rain I could scarcely imagine more depressing buildings in the whole world. I pictured the dirty corridors within filled with the moans of the dying and the smoke from the funerals below. In my imagination, the dark ...