Varanasi
January 14th 2009 Varanasi is smelly, dirty, crowded but what a cool place. It's one of the oldest living cities in the world and is the centre of the Hindu universe. Our first evening in Varanasi we took a boat ride up along the ghats where we viewed one of the burning ghats, a sobering sight to see the family surrounding the funeral pyre of their loved one. These pyres burn for about three days, leaving only ash
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