Hotel Ganges View Varanasi

... big ass signs, but in hindi or sanscrit, can'r understand anything ! . I ask to the people around us, no one understands, I say Varanasi, Benares, and all things around those two names and no one seems to know what the hell am I asking for, they just shake ...

... aka Charlie (he looked a wee bit like Charlie Chaplin and was a funny, funny guy). As we began the drive to my hotel, the Hotel Ganges View by the Assi Ghat, it became apparent that the drive to from Delhi to Agra had been the rookie leagues compared to ...

... - Hare Rama !!!!!! As someone said "Fortunate are those who live on the banks of the Ganga". We stayed at the Hotel Ganges View which was right on Assi Ghat. Very traditional Indian house. Lovely rooftop terrace for breakfast (with monkeys stealing your ...

...    Sunday 30 October                   Varanasi - Jaipur    At about 5am in the morning, Murray is out in the sitting room, Dianne is in bed when ...

... would get someone to show us to the ATM. Back in the room we had another shower, I sat on the balcony overlooking the Ganges and Varanasi, there was a heard of 60 water buffalos in the river below, a cow on the path under the balcony, two green parrots in ...

... the alleyways, dodging the cow pats which were like land mines, we would never have found the place, we were staying at the Shiva Ganges View on Mansarovar Ghat  we walked in and were welcomed by the owner, the same porter then carried our bag up 4 ...

... the residents here bathe daily in its somewhat rancid looking water, in a quest for self purification. Our hotel was a wonderful place.  Ganges View, and it too, held a spiritual aura.  Everyone walked around barefoot, the staff barely ...

... to settle into briefly and make my phone call. Within 5-10 minutes the rep Harrish arrived and we were off to Hotel India, my Varanasi accommodations for the next three nights. The lateness of my arrival negated any opportunity to view the evening's aarti ...

... to Hindus. For it is upon the ghats of this city that Hindu pilgrims come to wash away their sins in the Ganges.   Varanasi dates to 1400 B.C. Mark Twain wrote that 'Benares (old name) is older than history, older than tradition, older even than ...

... is definitely not something you can experience back home.  Oh yeah, I guess I should explain why we went to the Ganges and Varanasi in the first place.  Hindu’s believe that the Ganges is the most sacred place in the world for ...

... grungy dwellings until we FINALLY reach the Ganapati Guest House!  I check into my new padlocked double occupancy room with a "Ganges view" (shared) balcony and frankly, ...i'm inches close to calling in my hotel points at the Hyatt or Sheraton. It ...

... , which is sort of on the outskirts of town. David and I were deciding which room to book.  Such were our options: Ganges view, air conditioning, and Western toilet ($30) No view, no air conditioning, and Western toilet ($10) No view, no air ...

... marches past you in full song. If Venice's tangled streets fused with Marrakesh's madness, Varanasi would be its product. The best way to view Varanasi is from a boat at the break of dawn. It was lucky we had found an alarm clock at this point as we were ...

... und Schlafen verbracht. Heute morgen sind wir um 4.30 Uhr aufgestanden, um uns von einem Boot aus den Sonnenaufgang und Varanasi anzuschauen. Wegen einiger Wolken, wurden die Küstenbauten leider nicht in schön rotes Licht getaucht, aber der Anblick der ...

... the usual sight-seeing itinerary. We visited the grounds of Benares Hindu University - Benares being the old Portuguese name for Varanasi, confusingly still used - which is more like a self-contained town. Within it were a number of temples ...

... 9.30 so we headed back at 9.15, I would sit on the balcony like a Maharaja, our balcony stuck out from the hotel and was the highest view point around, it was already scorching hot. I watched the boats heading up stream they were all being rowed and were ...

... , you'll be ripped off) and were met by the owner who took us down the windy passageway to his plce. The hotel was great, and it did have a river view which is good for a place called 'River View' In fact it was right on the banks of the Ganges, and ...

Today we leave for Agra on the Overnight train from Varanasi Junction, our first job was breakfast omelette and toast for me, just toast for Nay, next was the minor detail of paying the bill. We spoke with the owner and one of his men would show us to an ...

... even the UK. We visited Jain temples (more about them later) and the Monkey Temple (enough said - lots).   Back to the hotel for a quick wash and buoyed by our previous successful tout handling we decided to strut our stuff along the ghats to see ...

... .] From Bodhgaya the V Man hopped a train for Varanasi, the Hindu holy city which sits on the banks of the Ganges. Arriving at Varanasi in the early evening, the V Man registered at Hotel Surya, (www.hotelsuryavns.com). Fabulous place, [$8/night]. ...