We had quite an adventurous day of travelling on Christmas Day in Varanasi, I’ll put some of those details in another entry.
Varanasi is amazing. It is the city of Shiva – one of the holiest cities in India for Hindus. Every day, thousands bathe and pray at the ghats that line the Ganges. At dawn we went down to the Ganges and took a boat ride:
Dying here, for Hindus, means achieving freedom from the cycle of birth and death. The Harishchandra ghatis a burning ghat, where every day bodies are cremated, right on the shore of the Ganges.
It really is an interesting, amazing place and the boat ride was an incredible way to spend a Christmas morning I’ll never forget. More photos in the Varanasi photo set
