Pradeep Varanasi
Jagatganj Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221002, India
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Varanasi
... aluege und ine Sidefabrik. Ja d Sidefabrik isch eher längwilig gsi, aber was macht mä nid alles. Da mir die Tuktuks füre ganz Tag hei gmietet gha, hei Becky u I üs ufe wäg gmacht, äs bekannts Lassi Restaurant ds sueche. Da üse Fahrer sälber nid so genau gwüsst het, wo dass das isch, ischer eifach mit üs cho und het üs dr ganz nami begleitet. Isch super gsi mit somnä persönliche Guide! Mir hei de ...
On the Ganges with Jane
... on the Ganges, a good distance from the center of activity – the ghats, where various rituals take place -- which means long walks to and from the city, but it also means relative quiet for sleeping (also a relative rarity in this country, in my experience). When we arrived we ended up taking a boat ride at dusk, Jane explaining the activities at the ghats, while I stared in wonder, my eyes wide as saucers. The most dramatic of the ghats are those for burning ...
Don’t eat Mom
... and this cuts out the middleman.
Another catalyst for this decision is that the animals I’ve been eating here hang around the neighborhood. I see them every day. So when I eat chicken, that chicken over there on the corner is going to get snatched up and slaughtered to replace it. In the West you never see them, at least if you’re a city-dweller, so meat just doesn’t have a face or consequence to it. It’s simply yummy ...
Understanding Varanasi
... expected the burning to smell horrific (think about the smell one strand of burnt hair gives off) but it did not smell at all. Our guide told us that prior to cremation the body would be dowsed in the Ganges and that it then took roughly 3 hours to burn a body and that all the dead bodies were handled by outcasts (those outside of the Caste system) after which time the bones and ashes would be cooled by the family who would pour 4 pots of ...
Yoga, lunar eclipse and travel to Mumbai
... s too snowy they’ll shut the route, and if the weather is bad you can’t fly to LUFKA – the most dangerous airport in the world perched in the mountains at the beginning of the Base Camp trek. Hmmm, am I put off?? A little I must admit, but I’m not one to do things by halves, I think the trek is actually going to be quite easy if they let anyone do it through those charity groups so it can’t be THAT hard right? So throwing a little bit of January weather in ...



