Varanasi Specialty Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Danny and I were feeling a little beat after four days in the smelly bustle of the Old City, and were hanging for a swim, so we decided to splash out (no pun intended) and spend a couple of nights in a four star hotel, for only $12 a night! We lugged our bags out of the Old City and down to the auto rickshaw square to hail a ride. Upon our arriv...

I got up at around 9, and headed to the Bubble to await my usual companions. My Scandinavian pals were seemingly still deep in their slumber however, and after a while I manned up for a trip out of the old city and into the melee of Varanasi proper. Braving the midday heat, and still somewhat in a mood about my broken lens, I stormed off in the ...

After saying good riddance to Varanasi, we hopped a train to Gokapur, a few hours closer to Nepal. Then in Gokapur we had to find the bus station south of the train station. We teamed up with a few other travellers, a couple from Wales and an English racist, and were on our way. Most of the bus ride was wasted listening to the English man's many...

There aren't many cities in the world where you can sit down to breakfast, stare out of your hotel window and watch dead bodies being burnt. Varanasi is one such place. Welcome to India's strangest and most compelling city, where it's happy hour at the crazy buffet twenty-four-seven! I knew to expect the strange and unexpected here but this stil...

We arrived in Varanasi at 10am on Monday morning. We spent most of the day making up for our lack of sleep on the train. We went out on a boat on the Ganges at dusk. It was an unforgettable experience. We saw burning bodies, weddings, Hindus singing and chanting and we lit candles and put them into the river for luck. We spent around an hour and...

Hey All, So its been a bit since Ive been able to update this, but we spend a couple days in Varanasi, on the Ganges, which is a holy river in case you hadn't heard about it. We went and saw a Bollywood movie, which I actually made it through because I wasn't sick this time...Thank God! And pretty much we just hung out otherwise, it was flippin ...

Varanassi is the one stop in India that people talk about for years afterwords, describing nightmares, fascination, disgust, or any combination of the 3, from their experiences in the city. I had heard what to expect, and felt adequately prepared for what I would witness, though India always has the ability to out-shock your expectations. The r...

Madness... I didn't like Varanasi as a city nearly as much as I thought that I would. Yet somehow it remains vivid in my mind as this amazing place. So here's why... Although Varanasi is one of the most crowded, dirtiest, most torn up places that I've seen in all of India, the city itself has an amazing energy, an energy that only started to rev...

A 13 hour local bus ride, an all day trip to get to Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Varanasi, the 3000 year old living city, the very heartbeat of Hinduism, the place people come to die. We arrived on Jan 16th, by bus from Allahabad and settled ourselves on a busy little street leading to the Ganges. The Hindus believe that dying in Varanasi ensures liberation from the cycles of rebirth. So the city is crowded with old people w...