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Pooh Cakes, yes these are pooh cakes collected from cow and buffalo toilet areas, dried out on the steps and used as fuel for cooking, yummy!
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Monsoon had just finished so the waters had subsided and left all the mud on the steps, this was being blasted just as we were leaving!
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A view along the ghats including a 'Sadhu' who is a feared holyman that everyone gives money too, not me!
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Beautiful? Perhaps not!
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Another view up a ghat
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A friendly kid that came to say hello!
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A busy street in Varanasi
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People getting ready and buying last minute fireworks for later that evening!
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Me and Jen out shopping for handicrafts, namely silk stuff as this is where the best comes from!
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Divali fireworks over Varanasi ghats with the Ganges River to the left!
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Couldn't decide which of these pictures I liked best so I put them all up, all taken with various delays and light settings!
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Early morning, about 6am taking a boat trip along the Ganges, a boatman that started off very charming before trying to completely rip us off!
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Folk already out for their morning bath. 60,000 people bathe in this sewage every day!
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More of the same!
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Where poofs come to bathe!
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HOLY COW!!
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Photographing us photographing them!
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The Sinking Temple
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This is the wood used to burn the bodies, the cost is worked out by how much is needed to burn you and by which type of wood, Banyan is cheapest!
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And the scales for the wood, most people go for Banyan Tree wood and have a few bags of Sandalwood shavings thrown in!
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Malc covered in toothpaste and showing off another new shirt!
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