Varanasi Inns - Reviews and Rates

Today we set off for a place called Sarnath, which is a Budhist site on the outskirts of Varanasi. We have to say that it was a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Sarnath is a green area, allmost parkland. Lots of Indian couples courting and having picknics. Situated within the grounds are many ruins dating back before J...

We took our first night train from Delhi to Varanasi.

First, a couple of comments regarding the trains here. Delhi has 17 million inhabitants and at least 4 train stations. Indian Railways are the largest train system in the world. It is also the most dangerous. Taking the train involves getting a confirmed ticket, the going to the corre...

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Got the night train to Varanasi! top bunks of three tier carriage. Lights out early! slept really well though suprisingly! As usual the train station was chaotic with people sleeping and sitting everywhere. A man spotted us almost immediately and offered us a lift in his auto rickshaw. He laughed when we told him the name of the hos...

The mother of all nothing days. I got up at 8, after one of the worst nights of my life. I think I was dehydrated even when I arrived in Varanasi, and a night of violent puking certainly hadn't helped matters. Though I drank the two litres of water I bought the night before, none of it stayed down and I spent much of the night fretting feverishl...

Varanasi January 26, 2009 Today is a national holiday in India. The big military parade is taking place in Delhi. We heard there are things happening here in Varanasi as well, but it is 12:30 and we are finishing breakfast. We have not yet left the guest house. Last night we had conversations with a couple from the Netherlands who are working in...

Nov 25- I boarded a train in Kolkata at 6 30pm for the 14 hour journey to Varanasi. On Indian trains there are several options and classes of seating to choose from. There is a 1st class AC sleeper car which has only two beds to a compartment, there is a 2nd class AC sleeper car with 4 beds to a compartment, a 3rd class AC sleeper car with 6 bed...

Hugh: Varanasi - our last stop in India. We booked a hotel right on Meer Ghat on the edge of the Ganges River (a ghat is a set of steps leading down into the river, and there are many of them all along the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi). The hotel is in the old part of the city, which is made up of very narrow lanes - too narrow for our autori...

As we didn't know what time we were to arrive at our station, the guard thankfully woke us up two minutes before arriving, 5:30 AM! We scrambled to get our bags unlocked and bundled off the train. Arriving at our hotel we decided to head straight out while it was cool. We went straight to the main Ghats in a rickshaw (our first experience). Ghat...

Hey all Eveything is well here, these are some of my photosbefore my camera dies. We are all doing well the weather has been great and classes are good. Hope all is well back home and enjoy the photos Beth

Destination 116: km76'468 Mit Varanasi zum Ziel bin ich im nunmehr nicht mehr kontrolliertem Verkehr beinahe untergegangen. Vorallem in Dehri erlebte ich das absolute, nicht mehr zu ueberbietene Chaos wo man nicht mal mehr die Strasse erkennen konnte. Dort hatte ich kampflos kapituliert und entschieden, nicht mehr nach Bareilly zu fahren um von ...