Perhaps Varanasi is not the place that you can say what everyone here is. This is not so. For many, this trip will be a real test of the nervous system, and for someone, perhaps this journey will be the starting point for reassessing values, to revise the vital value system.
The small town of Varanasi is located close to India's border with Nepal. Some travelers include Varanasi in the program of their journey in India within, for example, the classic tour "Golden Triangle of India". For many people of the world, Varanasi is the goal of arrival in India. In the soul of every Hindu, who has no funds to the far distance to Varanasi, lives a dream to see the sacred city, and even better - die and be cremated here. This dream come true far from everyone, but the gods are favorable to poor Hindus, it is believed that the sins of three lives are forgiven for one only intention to visit Varanasi. What is this in this Indian city that a visit to him go far beyond the standard concept of a tourist trip?
Varanasi is located on the shores of the sacred river Gang, which in Hinduism is considered to be a heavenly river that emitted to the ground and serves as a conductor between the Earth and Head. It is believed that Varanasi is the most ancient city on Earth, and even stones under the legs are sacred. Once in this city, the gods lived along with people, but then, when people became too much, the gods went to Himallai, but their stay forever made the city sacred. Day and night on the shores of Ganges, the funeral bonfire burns, many centuries in a row. On the embankment of the river, cremation rites are constantly carried out, in front of passersby. Sounds, smells, feelings ... Someone considers Varanasi the city of the dead, and for someone this city is a symbol of life, in an extended, not a philistine. What this city will see and remember you - it is impossible to predict, it can only understand you, if you still decide on this trip.
On the other, from Varanasi, the shiva shiva is being considered to be the kingdom of Shiva, these places have never settled in people, because, by the conviction of the Hindus are a soul mate. On the gangua, you can swim on the boat, which will be managed by a person from a special caste, whose birth from century in the age Sacred Heavenly River.
In Hinduism it is believed that the ablution in the waters of Ganga carries an extraordinary cleansing in itself, and hundreds of people make ablutions daily. Do you, decide for yourself. In the water of Ganga, the ashes are reset after cremation of the dead (the bodies are not completely burned), the bodies of children, pregnant women and busting cremation snakes are not subject to - they are simply reset in Gang.
Get to Ganges with a modern tourist just. The city has an airport that connects it with the major cities of India, and a major range of railway communication. The cost of tickets for Indian trains is from ten to twenty dollars, the cost of flights from the cities of India, especially when booking in advance, will be a little more - from fifty to eighty dollars. There are many small hotels and guesthouses in the city, which can accommodate at a price of five to twenty dollars, depending on the living conditions. In most Khrov, Varanasi Europeans are not allowed, but on the embankment of Ganges, not far from Gat, where the burial bonfires are burning, Indian Brahmynian priests hold religious rituals-Puja, whose witness can become anyone. A trip to Varanasi can become not just an excursion, but the event of your life, the meaning of which can determine only you yourself.