Varanasi

Varanasi is still a magic city, even if some of the boats are powered by motor now. And of course we visited various projects of the DISCC (Deva International Society for Child Care) with old and new friends from Deva-Europe and visited with our foster daughter, Sampa, and her mother, Vimla.

1 Varanasi Morning at Assi Ghat	2 Varanasi Young, tired vegetable monger	3 Varanasi Sold for 2 rupees	4 Varanasi Wedding party
5 Varanasi Students with Vimla at Gangotri School	6 Varanasi Siv and Gangotri students	7 Varanasi The Gangotri classroom	8 Varanasi Shacks along the Assi "River" in Nagwa
9 Varanasi Doms carrying a corpse to the cremation ghats	10 Varanasi View from balcony -- blue and tan	11 Varanasi Sampa and her dog, Lili	12 Varanasi Vimla, Siv, Sampa and dog
13 Varanasi Beggar at the ghats	14 Varanasi Two ladies at the ghats	15 Varanasi Cow eating offerings	16 Varanasi This young man wanted his picture taken with his family and Siv
17 Varanasi Leaving on a boat (a motor boat!)	18 Varanasi Tulsi Ghat and John's favorite observation post	19 Varanasi Panchakot House	20 Varanasi Vijayanagaram and Lali Ghats, with Swami Karapatri Ashram, and Kedar Ghat
21 Varanasi Darbhanga Ghat	22 Ahilyabai, Shitala, Dashashwamedh and Prayah Ghats ... and more Ahilyabai, Shitala, Dashashwamedh and Prayah Ghats ... and more	23 Varanasi Bathers at Dashashwamedh Ghat	24 Varanasi Bathers at Dashashwamedh Ghat
25 Varanasi Goat eating garbage	26 Varanasi Young worshippers, some with shaved heads	27 Varanasi A shack set up just above the ghat	28 Varanasi Geese!
29 Varanasi View towards the south	30 Varanasi Head shaving	31 Varanasi Boats and people	32 Varanasi Worshipers at a small, portable shrine
33 Varanasi Crowds	34 Varanasi Ashore above Dashashwamedh Ghat	35 Varanasi A narrow gali	36 Varanasi It was Shivaratri, a major holy day, and thousands of people were waiting patiently in the heat to visit the Vishwanath (Golden) Temple
37 Varanasi Young ladies in a gali	38 Varanasi A conch-shell band	39 Varanasi Long queues of people	40 Varanasi Dashashwamedh Road
41 Varanasi Some sort of Hindu dancers	42 Varanasi Small shrines in the evening at Shivala Road	43 Varanasi Temples	44 Varanasi Temples and HUGE loudspeakers
45 Varanasi Pre-sunrise at Assi Ghat. For a description of the dawn ambience at the ghat, see John's blog at Sunrise in Varanasi...please click here.	46 Varanasi Suddenly, the sun is there above the horizon	47 Varanasi And now it makes an upside-down exclamation point with its own reflection in the waters of the Ganga	48 Varanasi Morning bathers
49 Varanasi Morning sun reflection	50 Varanasi Breakfast cooking at Assi Ghat	51 Varanasi Dogs curled up together	52 Varanasi An early-morning swimmer
53 Varanasi Chotu at his vegetable stand with his wife and Siv	54 Varanasi How many Deva-Europe members can you get into a tuk-tuk? In the front, Jean-Max, the driver (rather essential...) and Marianne	55 Varanasi Looks llke 6! Siv, Xavier and Jean-Max	56 Varanasi Deepika's school
57 Varanasi Our favorite intersection	58 Varanasi Young students	59 Varanasi Lungi shop	60 Varanasi An ashram and temple on Shivala Road
61 Varanasi Vegetable mongers	62 Varanasi Cow asleep in the middle of Shivala Road	63 Varanasi Nice old house falling into ruin	64 Varanasi We took the small road to the right.
65 Varanasi Another neighborhood	66 Varanasi Goat lunch	67 Varanasi Western tourists	68 Varanasi Real, honest-to-gosh wood workers preparing woodwork for a new hotel
69 Varanasi Lunchtime for a rickshaw wallah	70 Varanasi Above, curious stairs, laundry, and plaques in two languages commemorating something or other.	71 Varanasi Our young, unrequested guide in front of a small mosque near the Maharaja's Palace and Panchakot House	72 Varan Gali
73 Varanasi Gali

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