Varanasi - Burning Ghats and food poisoning
December 12th 2007 Varanasi - November 07
Varanasi is considered by Hindu's to be a very holy place and a lot of people want to die there because they believe this will break the rebirth cycle. Because of this, a lot of elderly people make the pilgrimage here and there are around 2 or 300 cremations a day. The cremations take place on the burning ghats at the side of the holy river, the Ganges.
We took a boat
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