I have now offically arrived in Varanasi off of what was the correct train and the very religous reason for the city set on the Ganges mean many more cowas then even Dalhi and goats and buffalo evedently the sity smells pretty bad everywhere amd I have already stepped in two steaming piles.
The city is set on the sacred Ganges where people pilgrimage to bathe and set bodies a float, you see holy men everywhere of Hindu majority and small make shift temples in some of the oddest places. The orange of the robes is to symbolize Shiva who is celebrated especially in august and so many hundreds of people in bright orange is spectacularly colourful. The old part of the city is lined along the Ganges and has over 30 ghats which are manmade entry points into the river used for spiritual bathing and on two there are burning ghats which allow cremated or partly cremated or not at all to bwe floated on to the river.
I currently sit in a bakery near Shivala ghat which i found out is owned by the maharaja of varanasi and very nice it is. As I have finally cooled down and the baskin robbins sign i can see on the wall is a lie i'm gonna make my way back out to get lost in more of the historical cow pat covered ally ways.
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