Varanasi Trips & Tours

Known widely as the ‘holy city’, Varanasi is the kind of all-consuming places that juxtaposes and contradicts at every turn and will always have a place in your heart. Located on the banks of the Ganges River, it’s one of the holiest cities in Hinduism and the water is where it’s at. By day, watch pilgrims from far and wide wash away their sins and perform holy rituals, the smoke from funeral pyres hanging heavily in the air, and by night, watch as the river comes alive with light and flowers in a poignant aarticeremony. Leading away from the banks are the ghats(try and walk all of them – there are at least 100), inhabited either by wizened babas, promising to read your fortune, or laundry ladies and their sparkling sheets. In town, wander the labyrinthine alleyways, spotting temples and goggling at the sepia-coloured architecture.