Varansi, India
Our final stop in India and one of the oldest cities in the world. Hindu pilgrims flock here as it is a crossing place between the earth and the Gods and bathe in the holy water of the Ganges. Anyone who dies here attains instant enlightenment.
We arrived at the Ganges at sun rise and took a boat trip along the river bank. We watched monks burning incense, pilgrims bathing, bells being rung all with a thick mist hanging over the river. The atmosphere was really...