Varanasi

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This is the place where people wash their sins away in the Ganges from the Gats on shore. Oh, they also burn their dead and do their washing on the shore amongst other things. Simple.

It's also the place where they have a funny tradition of flying kites and all day there are loads of them in the sky. They use abrasive line to fight each other and cut each other down. Needless to say we had to have a go! We bought 10 kites (cost about 30p in total) plus some line and then spent an afternoon trying to learn to fly the bloody things. The only have one piece of string attached to them and the locals make it look easy to steer them but believe me it's not!

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Photos

Cremation on the Ganges
There is a hive of activity on the ganges with all sorts to see - this is a morbid example but still interesing - note the people washing their clothes right next to the fires.

Cricket on the Ganges
The incredibly popular sport here is played everywhere!

One of our Kites
We never did completely get the hang of these.