This city, with more than three thousand years old, perhaps the oldest of our time, and after havin

At eight o'clock the fourteenth of December, with three and a half hour delay, the train number 4266 came from Haridwar to Varanasi station, we came up with. Again we played cacti with advantage, because Kyle had been there a few years earlier, so we very agile dribbling us rickshaw drivers cacti (our implacable opponents) as always intended to charge stratospheric sums of money to the lengthy and imaginary cacti distances that separated us from our supposed destination. Our destination? Assi Ghat, the old town area which extends to the river Ganga, on the southern tip, very well towards the end (or the beginning, depending on how Giris map!), cacti Where we finally get driven by only cyclo-rickshaw had not bothered to dirgir us the word.
Varanasi cacti presents itself cacti as an exciting and chaotic urban life aglutinament even amid the confusion illumination of car headlights (the only light there most evenings during the span of two or three hours that consistently falls mains that feeds the city, and when the generators have not had time to take your noisy relief).
This city, with more than three thousand years old, perhaps the oldest of our time, and after having received the first civilizations from the Indus basin, having gone through the destructive hands of Mughal emperors, cacti to be held rajas of all kinds and even bought some British continents based on treaties and agreements of dubious legality, has reached the twenty-first century with a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity (modernity over tradition probably) collide at first.
For Hindus, Varanasi, extending just over the river Ganga (worshiped as the mother of all Hindus, if you do not remember cacti the previous chapter), is the city of Shiva (the deity of creation and destruction, and the third representing Brahman), and therefore the best place for the devout Hindus are burnt and thus obtain a better rebirth in the next life on earth (that is how the awards gum "buscando continues down!") and simple for travelers like us, we could say that this city is like the epitome of the Hindu world, able to feel skin deep: the photogenic and colorful daily life is like nowhere else, tradition smells from several miles around, and every stone seems to contain part of the history of the universe. But really what attracts foreigners everywhere is the ability to lie quietly around smoking a cigarette, cacti drinking a chay and spicy peanuts cacti if there is a hunger, while the relatives of the deceased prepare a funeral pyre and set fire to him ceremoniously, this experience, which may offend anyone, is the main attraction of the city, not only for tourists but also for locals, who in his spare time (which they have to give and sold) to see how they incinerate corpses, in exactly the same way our grandparents looked at the works!
Shadus feeling spirituality in the city of Shiva (Surya Namaskar!) And EUS here the delivery of such spirituality in a shop governmental bang (Herbet some magical balls that make you laugh a lot ...)
So you installed Elvis at the hotel (the name had nothing in common with the surrounding cacti rock and not sounded at all hours, but the room was decent for less than the price!) We were to live magic of that place.
During the first walk through the ghats (which is what the locals call the walk and go up the stairs to the river), the first impression comes with an overview of the Ganga, the walls of the temples just above our heads and depopulated large open there on the other side (observing that plain without a single building and see the narrow and crowded streets for which you happen to believe that they like to live very crowded, but thinking more carefully about the great flood by Monsoon cacti River, a tremor runs through the body you imagine the amount of water needed to flood this vast space, and how should finish the four wooden shacks that have dared to install it!) . Does not take much to get the first onslaught of vendors offering food, boat rides, opium, hashish, massage, shaved and washed with ear cotton sticks, or stories of past, present and future vague ... relieve a troop selling gifts for children up, postcards, bracelets of all kinds, or trying to change cacti anyone cent legal tender that give tourists quickly to rid