Varanasi - the Ghats

1 The Indian national game seems to be cricket.	2 An effigy left over from the last festival	3 Clowning Brits, who pretended only to have actually gone swimming	4 Kite flying
5 A happy-looking sadhu	6 A huge linga, covered with brass	7 Assi Ghat, with sand still left from the monsoon flooding	8 Strong man
9 "Onze fen�tres sur le Gange" (Eleven windows on the Ganges)	10 Chet Singh's palace	11 Dashaswamedh Ghat	12 Worshippers at Dashashwamedh
13 Leaving Dashashwamedh Ghat by boat	14 Boater	15 Ducks and pilgrims -- in a full boat	16 Nepali Temple
17 Manakarnika Ghat, the main burning ghat	18 Huge piles of wood for burning corpses	19 Towards the Alamgir Mosque (Aurangzeb's Mosque)	20 Flats to let?
21 Alamgir Mosque	22 Steep stairs at Phanchaganga Ghat	23 Looking north toward the bridge on the Ganga	24 Alamgir Mosque
25 A clean-looking temple at Panchaganga Ghat	26 Alamgir Mosque	27 The New Vindu Madhan Temple	28 New Vindu Madhan Temple
29 All that is left of the original Vindu Madhan Temple are the two statues beside the door...	30 ... one of Garuda ...	31 ... and one of Hanuman	32 Demolition workers
33 Demolition worker	34 Bathers and worshippers	35 Hold your nose and ...	36 ... dunk!
37 A libation for the holy river	38 Boys at the sunken temple	39 They actually swim in it!	40 The baskets hold lighted candles in the evening.
41 Meanwhile, back at Assi Ghat, cricket continues.