Varanasi Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We arrived at about 12.30 to Varanasi station. Taxi touts strangely find my hair a bit of a giveaway that we are not local and swoop with the speed of a kestrel immediately a foot is placed on the platform. I provided our first First-Aid moment when putting our backpacks into the old Ambassador taxi. I forgot that unlike modern cars where the bo...

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India is a very different place. I asked my dad yesterday, "Is there anything that is absolutely perfect in this world, because it seems everything has some kind of flaw. Like, even the peacock, which is beautiful everywhere else, has very ugly legs and feet. (Indrajit told us that the feet and legs are all bone so that when they get bitten by s...

A night so hot I barely register the mosquitoes. We lie under a fan and roll in our sleep to keep from sweating through the mattress. Leah emits intermittent murmurs about air-conditioning. In the morning, I leave early to meet Viki, the boy in the corner store down the road. I've been thinking of writing an article on the dairy industry in Indi...

Nous voila dans cette citee mythique qu est Varanasi... Puja et Puja... lol Shanti Shanti

Staying at a hotel along the river with a great view of the holy river Ganges. Even have a tiny caged-in balcony--caged in to prevent the entry of the ever-present Varanasi monkeys. Along the river most of the streets are mostly narrow lanes varying from 3 to 10 feet across. Along these miniscule pathways travel motorcycles, pulled rickshaws, pe...

Varanasi/Sarnath (12/18 -12/19) We flew from Delhi to Varanasi. It was our first time on Kingfisher airlines, started a year ago by the owner of Kingfisher beer. Now, we normally wouldn't take time to talk about our airline experiences, but Kingfisher is so cool. We highly recommend this airline for any flights you plan to do within India. A ver...

(Nicole) This is my honest feelings about India--not every trip can be fun, festive, and fantastic, right? So here's the scoop on one of the not so good days in India: We took an overnight train ride from Agra to Varanasi. The train station in Agra was chaotic and smelly-like urine and poo, but what else is new? There are huge rats running aroun...