Well you cannot come to India and not go to Varanasi can you? Shame really, I didn't like it at all. It's interesting as you get to see all different things happening at the same time, but sometimes you see too many things if you know what I mean? So what did we see at the famous ghats of Varanasi? Cricket!!! Everywhere, people bathing, sometimes just their feet, just washing hair, cleaning teeth, washing their children, ritual dunking baths, swimming, washing clothes and then laying out the saris to dry on the steps, children begging, other children selling flowers as offering to the ganges, 'holy men' stoned out of the brains mumbling, offering blessings, drugs, meditation and yoga, old ladies who are actually like feamle monks with their boobs hanging out, hotel towels and sheets being
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