Varanasi
2 May 2013 | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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After three days in Khajuraho, we go to Varanasi. Varanasi is one of the most sacred city of India, a main place for bathing in the Ganga river and for dead people to be burnt before the ashes to be thrown in the river. It is common belief that being burnt there will make one go faster to the Nirvana.
It gives a very strange atmosphere to the city, one would cross dead corteges every now and then in the small streets of the old city, lots of differents gurus and other religious people around, and countless tourists who want to experience a bit of Hinduist spirituality.
All in all, mixed with a dying heat (like 45°C) and some sickness I had probably contracted from bad food in the train from Chennai, it doesn't make my stay very pleasant. I'm still lusting for cold and mountains, far away from the big crowd.