Last city to visit in India before going to Nepal.. Varanasi the holiest city in Hinduism and an auspicious place to die as apparently you leave the circle of re-encarnation and spend eternity in paradise.
We take the train there again, Indian trains are reallycomfertable and you buy cheap street food and Chai tea on board. In Varanasi we stay in the house of a Yoga guru, see picture of the kitchen were we spent most of the time eating and talking. He also tought us about the Yoga (actually pronounced Yoag) philosophy and the postures are only the 3rd step in this philosophy. We discovered as we already knew that we were quite in flexible.
The river Ganges is perhaps the most important spiritual place for Hindu's washing your self in the water cleanses the soul and we guess give you super karma. For good Karma we light candles floating on flowers as offerings to the gods. They float away in the morning mist as we row down the river past the ghats were people bathe and pray, the mist gives it an eary magical and quite a spiritual feeling to the whole experience. The bells ringing the chanting really amazing as the sound passes through the mist slowly ghostly outlines materialize into shapes and finaly into people washing in the morning. The down side is all the raw sewage and rubbish in the water, you litterally see shit allong the river bank then a meter further some one brushing there teeth. These people's immune systems are rock solid how they manageI have no idea, we nust seem so weak and fragile to them with our hand dysinfectant and only drinking bottled water. I am sure they think we are a but mad, then again looking at how disgusting the water is we thing they are quite mad to!
D&S
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