Ganga View Guesthouse

... : The loveliest family that ever was. Mother, father and little cute two year old of androgynous appearance. I stayed at the Ganga View Guesthouse for the entire three weeks, and got quite close with them. I was regularly invited to place chess with ...

... me. Luckily we met some super cool Poles, Gosia and Michal and they showed where they were staying-a nice cheap clean guesthouse, Triveni (150rs with hot water!) After 4 nights we left Rishikesh and headed for Delhi.Hoping at last to enjoy Indian city ...

... to be very stern to get to our chosen hotel which we later changed choice on four times before settling for the Mona Lisa Guesthouse in the old town which we reached via a maze of narrow, arabesque alleyways. To do this we dodged numerous sacred ...

... fare. Epic win. Rishikesh is the yoga capital of the world (apparently) and just a really nice town on the River Ganges (or Ganga as it's called here) with walks to waterfalls, beaches on the river, and loads of nice cafés. So since I arrived, just ...

... tous les matins pour prendre un ptit bain purificateur dans la riviere sacree. La journee est rythmee par 2 ceremonies principales : le Ganga Puja (ablutions matinales) et le Puri (ceremonie du coucher du soleil). A partir de tres tot le matin des ...

... were!  As much as SD told them they were not interested, the touts didn't listen.  When we finally found a decent guesthouse, we knocked on the gates and told the owners we wanted to stay at their guesthouse and that we were being followed by ...

... so so weak to walk up three flights of stairs to the front desk.  The knock at the door saved me. The owner of the guesthouse had not seen me all day. I opened the door hunched over. He immediately looked at me an insisted in taking me to the ...

... men doing heaps of readings and crazy stuff... lots of fun! and then I jumped in a boat again to go to Puja ceremony (Ganga aarti) with the lovely Israelis again.. good to see and even tried to do another offering myself but the wind kept blowing my ...

... . We tried bargaining with several boat owners but couldn't get the cheap price quoted in our guidebook and by signage posted at our guesthouse. In the end, we ended up paying a bit more that normal, but I think we both felt it was a worthwhile ...

... call the Ganges, the river Ganga, and much to my amusement and deemed worthy of a picture, a big billboard had the profound words 'Ganga is part of our culture'! I was once again disappointed not to witness a floating corpse, but it was too dark anyway so ...

... 8217;t the most exciting thing to do but was worth the 20 min walk both ways to see it for a bit. After returning to our guesthouse, we ate dinner and retired for the evening having to get up the next morning to catch our long 26 hour train to Amritsar. ...

... as there is nothing happening for nearly an hour, and it’s been a long day, and we’ve booked dinner at our guesthouse for 8.30pm, we decide to come tomorrow night, so head inland to the Old City with its labyrinth of narrow alleys.  Toy ...

... living and continuously lived in city in the world, is sacred to Hindus thanks in most part to their holiest of holy rivers, the Ganga or Ganges.  the river itself is developed on one side only - the other is as barren as can be imagined and makes a ...

... i'm not the as holy as thou, it was something special to see so much energy and faith in one place. We have now followed Mother Ganga up stream to the oh so serene town of Rishikesh. It is right on the river and home to all sorts of Sadhus, hippies ...

... releasing. Daadi was insisting on our staying at her place for a night but I told her that we already have a booking in a guesthouse, which was not really true. We were planning to spend night at Circuit house situated on the way to Pauri. Sun ...

... later than expected - forcing me to listen to a tediously repetitive "Hare Krishna" song playing on the stereo of the restaurant/guesthouse in the meantime - a friendly-looking middle-aged man turned up, and he was to be my guide and porter.  I was ...

... and opium are sold in government dispensaries all over the city. Long story short, that cold beer had never tasted so good! My guesthouse was right on the river Ganges. A brief walk along the ghats (essentially the rivers edge, where the stairs meet ...

... street children, the relentless touts, and other confused looking tourists. At last we stumbled out of the maze, found our guesthouse, and saw our first view of the Ganges, holiest river of India. Varanasi is one of a few cities in the world that ...

... "! I've never been so blinking popular!!!!  Although, Matt's had some attention - his male fan that worked in our guesthouse continued the massage requests...only one morning we woke up and he had disappeared from the guesthouse...done a runner in ...

... I have settled into a pleasant routine that begins at 7 in the morning. After reading briefly I go down from my guesthouse and take yoga for two hours. Initially I was astounded at the intense amount of time spent on different breathing techniques ...