Varanasi Stories


Whirlwind tour with mom :) (part 1)

After taking the fast train back to Delhi from Amritsar I arrived at the swanky Royal Palace hotel where I was to meet up with mom. I think the people working there had some reservations about letting me into the hotel (I don't think the bell boy wanted to carry my dirty backpack so he just dragged it on the ground instead of putting it on his back) bu...


It's Intense in Varanasi

Walking along the ghats of Varanasi is like watching an unbearably violent movie sequence executed by a brilliant and artistic cinematographer. Although it's all too much to take in, you are transfixed. And like something that is too overwhelming, you distance yourself from it as if watching from the other side of a movie screen. The desperate pover...


Intense

06/12/09 I am now in the holy city of Varanasi home of Shiva and on the sacred Ganges. This is the cross roads between this dimension and the next for Hindus. If you have seen pictures of tv shows on Hindus bathing in the Ganges there is a good change that it was Varanasi. To die in Varanasi is an auspicious death because it breaks the cycle of life a...


Scammed within 10 minutes of getting to India

Well Hello friends, It took me and Laura all of ten minutes to get ripped off for the first time in this beautiful new country. After crossing the border from Nepal and then selecting a nice looking bus for a three-hour ride to Gorakhpur, where we planned to catch a night train to Varanasi, the helpful bus tout told us that we couldn't buy a train ti...