Hotel Alka Varanasi

... the boat touts into offering up a brief interlude of silence.  It also served to produce a few giggles.   Varanasi is a photographer's playground and we relished the opportunity to give the camera a good work out.  A particularly favourite ...

... bring them there, and then refusing to take them any further until making a purchase or a reservation. So when I arrived in Varanasi, I was overly cautious, and probably a bit paranoid. I hadn't been in an actual taxi since my first week in India with ...

... or the stairs of the ghat. Let's remember, cows walk freely everywhere. Two ghats are used as cremation spots. Most Varanasi residents will be cremated here and other Indians may choose these ghats as it is considered very auspicious to be cremated here ...

... like sculptures (sex related). It is in the middle of now-where and the whole place lives on those temples.   Getting to Varanasi was the normal mess in getting a taxi and finding the hotel. Actually it was more organized than said in the books. ...

We took an overnight train from Delhi to Varanasi, located on the banks of the Ganges river (Ganga to Indians). We checked into Hotel Alka and walked onto the balcony overlooking the river. Beautiful! Fog hangs on the river this time of year, and to the ...