Varanasi, India

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Day 8? (6/25/2009)

Oh man, I'm starting to miss home. sike. Today I was supposed to wake up before sunrise (4:30am ish) and head to the ghats. It's now 6:00am and I'm just rolling out of bed. So I miss the sunrise and meeting up with nick, the Australian dude from the night before. I still head to the river...

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Kennyboy12 on June 25 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Kenny Baldridge - "No Reservations"

Day ... Uh... 7! Day 7. (6/24/2009)

Oh my god. Past three days have been hella rough. This is what I've been up to. Monday I woke up at 3:30am and checked out and got to the airport around 4:30am to leave for New Delhi. I had like 4 or 5 flights that I could standby on. I get there, get to the ticket agent and they won't accept...

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Kennyboy12 on June 24 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Kenny Baldridge - "No Reservations"

Cows and corpses

Haroon was already waiting for us when we dragged ourselves downstairs at about 5am. A group of English public school gap-year kids, who were also staying there, were also downstairs for the early morning cruise. One of the other brothers was taking care of them. They were being taken to the...

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shedden on June 18 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

Arrival in Varanasi

Varanasi is a place I had been intending to include in our Indian itinerary from inception, but every person without exception we spoke to about it while travelling said the place is incredible, not to be missed. So we were really looking forward to going to a place in India that was so...

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shedden on June 16 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Michael's Round-the-World honeymoon

No floaters

Varanasi is an interesting place. So many different things going on at the ghats....

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shedden on June 16 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Joanne's Round the World Honeymoon

Varanasi and Sarnath

After Mark rallied like a champ from his brief digestive bout with the help of Katy's healing hand, we ventured to Varanasi (also called Benares), the holiest city of the Hindu faith. Varanasi is almost beyond description. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and daily life for its...

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Katy and Mark Lewis on April 25, 2009 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: India and Nepal

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125asul on April 14, 2009 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: 125asul's Travel Blog

thank god their holy men not women..otherwise we'd have a whole bunch of commemorative dug holes

After a day in Varanasi, I headed out to the nearby other holy city of Sarnath. Sarnath is where the Buddha gave his first speech/sermon/insight (whatever you call it). As befits all holi...whoops holy... men, that spot in a Deer Park is now commemorated by a stupa: a giant pile of stones...

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Drie on April 27, 2008 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

traveling by lonesome rail

Well, its my first day traveling on my own. Originally there weren't supposed to be any of those but long kept plans went to pot when my travel companion Betsey got a very tenacious fever that she couldn't seem to shake. So the day before we were to leave I treked out to the train station to...

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Drie on April 25, 2008 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Adventures in Hindustan

Varanasi! Acha!

okokok! After the most famous monument in all of India we go to another famous place and probably the most sacred For all the hindus! Varanasi, where many devout hindu pilgrims come to bathe in the Ganges! and wash away their sins! We had already booked our train to leave Varanasi 2 days...

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agnesola on March 17, 2008 from Varanasi, India

from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...

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