Burning Ghat
View towards Mankarnika ghat - the flames are in fact burning bodies (no photos are allowed at the ghat itself).
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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... [read more]
The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... [read more] Blog: From the muddy banks of the Ganges
Date: November 12th 2009
...There we were - Varanasi station, 4.30am. You'd think it might be pretty dead at this hour but you would be wrong. Touts of all shapes and sizes crowd the platforms at all ours and floor space is at a premium due to the many Indians using it as a bed and waiting room rolled into one. Tip toeing our way through the slumbering crowd, we met a British couple (whose bag had been stole ... read more
Date: November 12th 2009
...There we were - Varanasi station, 4.30am. You'd think it might be pretty dead at this hour but you would be wrong. Touts of all shapes and sizes crowd the platforms at all ours and floor space is at a premium due to the many Indians using it as a bed and waiting room rolled into one. Tip toeing our way through the slumbering crowd, we met a British couple (whose bag had been stole ... read more
