Mansarovar Hotel Varanasi

Opp: Cant Rly. St., GT Road Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221007, India

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Das Ende Indiens – Varanasi

A travel blog entry by rtw-win

14

... hier heilige Abschnitt des Flusses wird für alles verwendet, was eben möglich ist. Wer sich an einem der Ghats wäscht, soll somit der Wiedergeburt entfliehen können und gleich das Nirvana betreten können. Das mit dem Nirvana halten wir gar nicht für so unwahrscheinlich – zumindest würde es uns so ergehen wenn wir darin baden. Wir beobachteten einen Yogi bei seiner rituellen Waschung, inklusive Hair-Conditioner und natürlich Zähne putzen ...

Vara … Vara … Varanasi

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

18

... get quite pushy, fortunately this chap seemed nice enough – we don’t know if he was a real guru or not but he looked the part and added to our experience.

When we eventually decided to walk back to the hotel it was dark and we walked swiftly so as to avoid the many suspect looking people who were starting to appear and offering us drugs. Holy Varanasi … in the nights darkness not so ...

Oh the Noise

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

14

... and finally at the Dhamekh Stupa, a huge cylindrical building which marks the spot where Buddah preached his first sermon. The site also contained geometric carvings from 5th Century AD. Outside there were many children begging for money and then food. Annabelle eventually succumbed to one girl who simply wanted her empty plastic bottle.

When we had eventually had enough we went back to the rickshaw. The driver ...

Attack of the Tout

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

5

... we decided to order some food. To add insult to injury the food was expensive, tiny portions and really not that nice when compared to everywhere we had eaten before, typical.

Another thing that we instantly took a disliking to was the fact that when we started to eat, the manager would sit near to us eating exactly the same thing. It literally felt as though he was eating some of our lunch and smiling at us while he did it.

As we looked ...

Bathing, touting and cow dung

A travel blog entry by kenanddonna2005

1
38

... not just paranoid tourists. To enforce this a mother and daughter got on who Donna immediately engaged in a 5 hour conversation, during which the daughter said she was robbed on the last train she was on, making the paranoid tourist really worried. Come 8pm everyone went to bed, Donna carried on talking for a while to the daughter but by 9pm jaw ache had set in and we settled down for the night. Well, when I say settle, I spent the whole ...

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