Ganga View Guesthouse

... (tenth phase of the Moon, the day before Pandava Nirjal Ekadasi)  "Festivals connected with rivers are essentially bathing festivals. Ganga Dussehra is celebrated on the tenth day of Jyeshtha. River Ganga is worshipped as a mother as well as a ...

... dead pig. Just a couple of meters beyond that was a crowd of people splashing around, offering puja--prayers--to the Ganga, bathing, brushing their teeth and even drinking the water. Incredible. I mentioned how strange and interesting it all was for me ...

... is close to the source of the mighty Ganga and this was our first taste, not literally, of India's most sacred river. The Ganga has a reputation for being a polluted, more like a sewer than a river, but here at Rishikesh it's still young and fresh from ...

And by 'Ganga' I am not implying we were up bright and early smoking some illegal substances.... jeepas! Ganga is actually the real name for the River Ganges.  We found it strange when we would ask people about where we could find the 'Ganges' and ...

... other travellers I've met seem to be either imagining this being very close to what Baghdad sounds like, trying to understand the whole Ganga thing, and how long and badly you've had the shits! :) Will also be trying to upload some of the amazing scenes ...