Hotel Sarin Inn Varanasi

14 Mehmoorganj Road, Sigra Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221010, India

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New Year's 2012, Part 1

A travel blog entry by s_j

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... my insistence we went back out to greet the first morning of the new year. I’m sure Paul would have been happy just admiring the river from the shore but I really wanted to get a boat and maybe go swimming.

I know you think I’m totally crazy right now, I just went on about how filthy this river is and now I want to go dunk my head in it. But there were three things that happened to me over the past few weeks that brought ...

I stayed at the Varanasi P.O.S.

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... and get cremated.

For Hindus as I understand it, the river at Varanasi is reputed to wash away your bad karma (but not according to the Buddha, who mocked the practice). Varanasi is also considered to be the best place to die and be cremated. Apparently it gives you a better shot at getting into heaven. For Buddhists, it’s just a good place to contemplate impermanence…and get hassled for a ...

Oh the Noise

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

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... they were stood next to our bed and to add insult to injury he even agreed a better room rate for them than he had for us, we just could not believe it. Varanasi had not been kind to us so far.


The main bonus of our room was that it was pitch black which made it much easier to fall back to sleep (which we did) for a couple of hours before eventually dragging ourselves out of bed to use the computer and look into our ...

Attack of the Tout

A travel blog entry by bellethorpe

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... and generally making us feel very uncomfortable, seemingly we now had an in-car tout to deal with. We started to feel a bit vulnerable and helpless as there was no escaping him. We wanted to call the hotel owner for some support but had run out of credit – not even enough for a text. Arrghhh.


The drive to the hotel seemed to go on and on and apart from the verbal jousting with the annoying tout, we had just never seen traffic anything like ...

Bathing buffalos and burning corpses

A travel blog entry by global.nomads

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... Ziel ist dabei immer, in ein Gespräch verwickelt zu werden und so eine freundschaftliche Vertrautheit herzustellen. Die macht es dann schwerer, Verkaufsangebote abzulehnen. Oder aber sie sind so dreist und nerven gezielt und unnachgiebig, in der Hoffnung, man gibt irgendwann erschöpft auf und willigt ein, nur um den Verkäufer wieder loszuwerden. Auf früheren Indienreisen empfand ich diese Situationen oft als stressreich, weil ich mich der Verkäufer oft ...

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