Flour on the banks

Drying colored sheets

On the banks, close to an ashram

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Once again, a "cliche" from Ganga river banks

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Nam, can you give some explanations of the (white? grey?) make-up ?

3 bald men at the top !

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Praying Brahman

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Praying Sadhu at dawn

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This "People of Varanasi" serie will never end ! ;-)

Old Blue Riding Hood

Ne lui trouvez vous pas un air de ressemblance avec "les Vamps" ?

Praying the sun

Warm thanks to Nam, for her explanations on the prayers.

Blue bird

May be a Kingfisher ?

Smile !

No ? Ok... next time may be ?

Barber in action

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Reflection in a barbershop

Begging on the ghats

Early newspaper

Seating on the ghats, a wood stick as toothbrush and a newspaper...

Future biker

Seems he played with colors ! ;-)

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Shopkeeper

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Sadhu on the Ganga banks

Varanasi Postcard

One more "cliché" of the banks

Golden Fish & Red boat

Bangles

Traditionnal glass bangles

Fast food Monkey

Eyes in my eyes and tasting the hamburger !

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Morning prayer

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Praying in the water

On the way to CP's Baoli ...

Sunday, when going to Connaught Place's baoli, I overtook this ... thing :

I just clicked it when driving, so didn't spend too much time on it... ;-)

For the ones who would like to know what a baoli is, just have a look a those 2 pictures :


As you can see, a baoli is an old and deep excavation used to harvest rain during the moonsoon and store it for winter... Unfortunately, due to global warming (and waste thrown in it) it now never fill up !

Independance Day : Kites

That's what I saw from my appartment last Saturday for India Independance Day : Hundreds of Kites in the sky ...

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After the bath, let's put my clothes.

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Women and bath

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Praying in the Ganga

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This old man has great attention for his clothes

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Bath and religious time for this man

Hot colors stairs

Very relaxing painted stairs

Varanasi Ghats

Ghats, houses and washers !

The traditional ghats trilogy.

Three men after morning bath

Postcard ?

Typical "Varanasi from Ganga" cliché

Morning ceremony

Linen drying

Stairs are used to dry sarees, covers, ... They color all the views !

Better overview of Ganga bank

Water prayers

Postcard view of Varanasi ghats

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Reflection of the pink lady... but

OK, Jeff, Loulou, this one is just half-pink !!! ;-)

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Morning is washing time for most of pilgrims.

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People rincing their clothes in the sacred Ganga water

P.S : Sorry, dear readers, I should have taken few minutes to crop it and to make it nicer !