Varanasi: City of Rebirth (xii)
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Posted 10.10.2008
There is nothing like waking up at dawn to take a boat ride down the Ganges, past the men standing mid-waist in water, placing their hands together in prayer and chanting.
There is nothing like waking up at dawn to take a boat ride down the Ganges, past the men standing mid-waist in water, placing their hands together in prayer and chanting.
The travelers who come to Ganges View Hotel are unusual: a sophisticated Danish woman who works with trauma victims in Iraq, Columbia and other war a...
The most fun experience one can have in India, if you have an extra twenty dollars, is take a street child to buy her new clothes.
I sat on a curb in the dark, the sun not yet lifted, watching dozens and dozens of people sleeping on the concrete, some beginning to rise, the breeze fresh from the Ganges.
Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.
