Plaza Inn Hotel Varanasi
S 21/11th, Parade Kothi, Contonment Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221002, India
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Das Ende Indiens – Varanasi
... Dass 2 Meter neben ihm der Kadaver eines Hundes vorbeitrieb brachte ihn keinesfalls aus seiner inneren Ruhe. Wenn wundert's, werden hier schließlich auch die Kühe gewaschen oder die Überreste der Toten auf ihre letzte Reise geschickt … neben dem Plastikmüll und den Industrieabfällen.
Wir wanderten die Ghats entlang und je weiter südlich wir kamen desto trister wurde die Umgebung. Grund für diese Route war die Suche nachdem Durgatempel, ...
Back to Uni
... decided to go for a walk out and about and had been told that a walk around the Bernares Hindu University was very peaceful.
En route we were still struck by every new sight we were seeing - it really was an assult on every sense, each time we ventured out to the strrets we experienced something different. Now were are even used to the constant stares we received, after all we were the aliens here. The ...
Oh the Noise
... to find a phone and we called the hotel to make sure we had confirmed collection for the following day at 10am. We knew that we defiantly did not want another night in our existing hotel.
The journey back was equally as painful and arduous, though it did provide yet more time for some reflection.
We thought about what we had in our lives and more importantly of what others did not have and how lucky we were to be ...
Attack of the Tout
... the rooftop we spotted something that went a long way to lightening the mood. A lazy looking monkey was sat on the roof of the building opposite us, eating something that he had found or maybe even stolen from somewhere. He was the only highlight of a drab skyline.
In evening we looked into a trip for the following day and went for a walk around the local area.
The tiny streets were covered in cow dung and both cows and buffalo seemed to be ...
Bathing, touting and cow dung
... everyone and everything whilst everyone else slept. When I did eventually drop off, I woke to find a gentlemen had decided to join me ... if only it had been a police man with a large gun, but sadly no, it was someone who had bought a cheap ticket and just wanted to sit down for half hour with his mates, so how could I refuse, alone in the dark. After the 40th stop of the night and having got bored with trying to keep the window shut to stop the ...


