Varanasi's Ghats

The life and soul of Varanasi are its ghats, the steps down to the river, especially during the hot weather where small respite can be caught from the heat with the breezes wafting across the Ganga. Best at dawn or dusk, all facets of life go on here, making for fascinating wandering. At Dawn people perform the abolutions in the river, at the same time making Pooja. Varanasi is way Holy for these Hindu types, so washing here is to be clensed to the spirit, despite the filth. At dawn people practice Yoga, drink chai, fish, do their laundry and a hundred other things best done in the soft morning light. Evening time brings more pooja and, being India cricket matches which go on despite the goats, cows, beggers and other obstuctions. Ghats.