Jaipurai Hotel Varanasi

Badolia, Near Vishwanath Temple Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221001, India

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Varanasi

This is a stop off i hadn't planned but i am definitely happy i came here.

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I stayed at the Varanasi P.O.S.

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... internet.

Actually there was one unnecessary feature they threw in, a complimentary breakfast of omelet and toast in their restaurant upstairs (probably to encourage dining there at other non-complimentary times of the day). Their restaurant is enclosed in a metal cag, because it’s open to the outdoors and the riverside is full of monkeys. I felt a little like an exhibit in a zoo with the monkeys as ...

Vara … Vara … Varanasi

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... whilst others only had a small stick in place of a ball which they then hit with another bigger stick, we wished we had brought some tennis balls with us to give to them.

Lining the Ghats were the worst examples of poverty and begging in Varanasi, obviously due to it being the regular tourist route. We passed by several young kids who smelled of urine and looked filthy, it was awful. As we ...

Oh the Noise

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... we did not want to return to a ransacked room. Very very frustrating.


As our driver rounded the end of our small street we immediately wished we had brought ear plugs, the honking horns were just so loud it was incredible. The roads were chaos, narrowing as they approached small roundabouts.

At each one there would be a puzzled looking policeman who did not know which baying pack of rickshaws to start directing ...

Attack of the Tout

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... down a pedal rickshaw. He then immediately told the driver that we would not be able to fit all our bags onto one of the rickety old wooden death traps and that we would not be happy with it. The driver then insisted that we split up and take a pedal rickshaw each, he even started to take our bags out of the boot. Now we were stuck in the middle of an incredibly busy place, with no idea where we were going, a tout we could not get rid of and a taxi driver who ...