Mansarovar Hotel
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Holy and intriguing Benares
... families and friends. And we saw fires of three bodies going on.
The beautuful scenery here did not change much since our visit in1997. We recognized many scenes on the ghats and on the river. We see priests under a parasol who were also put in etchings by Marius Bauer in the 1920s.
Largest campus in Asia
Next was the Benares University, its campus is the largest in Asia, it has 30,000 students, one third of them girls. It has its own ...
L'intensité d'un peuple !!!!
... tre pur parce qu'elle provient de l'himanaya.
Lorsque je suis arrivé sur un des Ghat, j'ai figé, je me sentais incapable de réfléchir, prendre des photos voir même bougé. Je me sentais paralysé, tellement il y avait de monde, les couleurs, les odeurs d'encent, de corps brulé, de chandelle ...
Voir tout ces gens en prière, se baigner dans l'eau froide, les gens grelottent de froid. Certains d'entre eux, se rase même la tête pour ...
Ghats on the Ganga, Pyres and Puja
... for 100 rupees which he (very reluctantly) agreed to. The boatman made such a fuss about rowing, rubbing his shoulders and gesturing to to the force of the river that I felt really sorry for him and gave him 200 but felt really stupid after. He was just emotionally blackmailing me 100 rupees is loads for the 10 minutes it took him to row us across. I need to get much thicker skin.
On the other side of the river the mud flats stretch for miles and it feels ...
India - Love and hate it
... mixture turns bright red and eventually this to is spat out onto the ground in great big gobs of red spittle. It is truly disgusting.
The other thing that one must never do is shake hands with someone you meet on the street. Once they have hold of your hand they will not let go until they have tied a Holy string around your wrist, or start giving you a massage or try and paint something on your hand. All will cost you money unless you are rude and just rip your hand away.
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The Holy City
... it was that Fred had to get behind her and push her up onto the bunk, she then did this kinda commando crawl to get to the top of the bed, we could hardly do anything for laughing, it was the funniest thing. We were hoping that she didn't have to use the toilet in the night.Our ride from the station was un-inspiring, piles of rubbish everywhere and I mean piles, add to that the stench of stagnant water that has been lying ...
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