Well, well, well. How to describe Varanasi at Diwali? It's a pretty difficult task, as so much is going on that the brain can hardly process the information fast enough to register it properly. It's one big, colour-filled stream of experience into which you slip in and crawl out. It also makes you realise that you are not some independant little island, but part of a seething, breathing, ever-evolving, evr-changing universe filled with differnt people, animals and types of existence. Kind of. Ish. If only it was as simple as that, even though it really is... We settled into a place on the banks of the holy Ganges in Varanasi a couple of days before Diwali, then went for a stroll in a shopping street filled with thousands of people buying brightly coulored things to festoon
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